Job Title: Project Controls Specialist
Job Overview:
As a Project Controls Specialist, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful planning, execution, and completion of creative projects. You will be responsible for implementing and maintaining project control systems, monitoring project progress, and providing accurate and timely information to support decision-making processes. This role requires a combination of project management, financial analysis, and communication skills to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Key Responsibilities:
Project Planning:
Collaborate with project managers to develop comprehensive project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource requirements.
Assist in defining project scope, objectives, and deliverables to ensure alignment with construction industry standards.
Cost Estimation and Budgeting:
Work closely with the finance, Project Controls director and project management teams to develop accurate project cost estimates.
Create and maintain project budgets, tracking expenses and ensuring adherence to financial guidelines.
Schedule Management:
Develop and maintain project schedules, identifying critical paths and potential bottlenecks.
Monitor project timelines, identifying and addressing deviations to ensure timely project completion.
Risk Management:
Identify potential risks and uncertainties that may impact project outcomes.
Develop risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans to address potential issues.
Performance Monitoring:
Implement project control tools and systems to monitor project performance.
Regularly analyze and report on project progress, providing insights into key performance indicators.
Communication:
Facilitate communication between project teams, management, and stakeholders.
Prepare and present regular project status reports, highlighting key milestones, issues, and risks.
Change Management:
Track and assess changes to project scope, schedule, and budget.
Evaluate the impact of changes and communicate adjustments to relevant stakeholders.
Documentation:
Maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation, including contracts, change orders, and other project-related records.
Qualifications:
Scruffy Dog Creative Group is a global entertainment design & realisation company. We are expert storytellers, blue-sky thinkers, cutting-edge designers, and ingenious makers backed by world-class project managers. This award-winning, multi-disciplinary team are the industry leaders in experience design, creative build, and creative project management for Theme Parks & Resorts, Waterparks, Attractions, Museums, Live & Experiential Events, and TV & Film. Our extensive experience, obtained at prestigious heights across the sector — including Disney, Universal, Qiddiya, NEOM, Miral, Merlin Entertainments and Warner Bros. — leaves us with the know-how to deliver results of unparalleled quality to our clients. Our international presence ensures that we continue to attract the highest calibre of projects from around the globe, as well as industry-leading talent to our teams. We boast a full suite of facilities across seven locations in four countries. Our ideation studio in London, UK serves up story-driven experience design and works closely with our masterplanning and development design studios in Barcelona, Spain — some of the largest of their kind in the industry. Our offices in UAE and KSA head our high-end, local delivery Creative PM division. This is all complimented by our state-of-the-art production facility in the UK. We at Scruffy Dog Creative Group, unlike any other creative agency in our industry, can translate creative vision into fully realised delivery, all under one roof — a true turnkey solution.