Project Controls Officer, Bathgate

Aureos are seeking a Project Controls Officer to work in Bathgate.

The Project Controls Officer (PCO) provides independent assurance that the project is governed, represented, and controlled using complete, consistent, and evidence-based information.

The role operates across both:

Early Contractor Involvement (ECI / NEC4 Option E)

Construction (NEC4 Option C)

The PCO safeguards the integrity of governance, reporting, and control by ensuring that risks, decisions, assumptions, cost, programme, and change are:

Fully aligned

Transparently represented

Supported by evidence

The PCO does not manage delivery, own decisions, or accept risk. The role ensures that:

In ECI, the project is understood

In construction, the project is understood and demonstrably under control

Key Responsibilities

The PCO provides independent oversight of the project control environment, ensuring alignment between governance, delivery, and commercial position.

This includes:

 Assuring the integrity and alignment of:

Risk, Decision, Action, and Assumption Registers

Project Programme

Cost and commercial reporting (during construction)

 Verifying that the project can provide clear, evidence-based answers to the four core project control questions (current position, cost, forecast, and corrective control)

 Challenging:

Misalignment across registers, programme, and delivery

Optimism bias, incomplete information, or assumption drift

Understatement or delayed recognition of cost and programme exposure

 Monitoring escalation thresholds and ensuring escalation is applied without delay

 Producing independent assurance reports, exception summaries, and governance inputs

 Escalating any condition where the project cannot demonstrate a complete, consistent, and controlled position

Construction Phase Responsibilities (NEC4 Option C)

During construction, the PCO ensures governance is translated into controlled delivery and contractual alignment.

This includes:

 Verifying that cost, programme, and performance reflect actual delivery

 Confirming integrity of:

Target Cost vs Forecast Final Cost

Defined Cost and committed cost

Compensation Event position

 Ensuring the correct and timely use of:

Early Warnings

Compensation Events

Formal change processes

 Ensuring no work proceeds without formal approval and contractual recognition

 Challenging divergence between:

Site reality and programme

Cost reporting and actual exposure

Governance records and delivery position

 Confirming uncertainty is actively converted into:

Compensation Events

Accepted risks

Controlled delivery outcomes

Authority and Interfaces

The PCO is authorised to:

 Require correction of governance, programme, or cost information

 Request supporting evidence for reported positions

 Challenge alignment between governance, commercial, and delivery data

 Escalate concerns independently of delivery pressure

The role works closely with Project Management, Commercial, Planning, and Functional teams, while maintaining independence from delivery execution.

Role Boundaries (Important)

The Project Controls Officer shall not:

 Act as a Decision Owner.

 Act as an Action Owner.

 Accept or transfer risk.

 Approve scope, programme, cost, or technical solutions.

 Direct delivery resources or manage work execution.

The PCO is not accountable for delivery outcomes but is accountable for ensuring that any loss of control, misrepresentation, or misalignment is identified, evidenced, and escalated.

Required Experience & Capability

Essential:

 Experience in project controls, governance, assurance, or commercial/change control on infrastructure or construction projects

 Strong understanding of risk, decision, cost, and programme control

 Ability to interrogate data and challenge inconsistencies across multiple sources

 Strong communication skills for structured reporting and senior-level engagement

Desirable:

 Experience with NEC contracts (particularly Option C)

 Experience in ECI environments

 Background in PMO, planning, commercial assurance, or programme controls

 Familiarity with stage-gate governance frameworks

Personal Attributes

 Independent, objective, and evidence-driven

 Able to maintain control discipline without delivery ownership

 Resilient and confident in challenging bias or misrepresentation

 Focused on truth, transparency, and control rather than narrative

 Trusted and credible with both delivery teams and senior leadership

In return you will receive

• Generous Salary
• 25 days Holiday plus Bank Holiday
• Pension
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Assistance and Wellbeing support

Equal opportunities

Aureos are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.