Senior Project Control Manager

1. Controls Oversight & Assurance

• Serve as Valmore's lead representative on project controls matters across EPC contracts, setting on group and BU Levels standard operating procedures and governance frameworks, to ensure proper and best practice controls are in place.

• Establish and enforce project controls requirements within EPC contracts; including reporting standards, tools, and cadence, and attend contractor progress meetings, site visits, and project reviews as the Group's representative.

• Provide independent project controls assessments to the COO and Board, free from contractor or business-unit pressure, documenting findings and escalating issues as required.

2. Business Unit Delivery Partnership

• Act as the project controls partner to each Business Unit's MD and Operations Teams, providing hands-on support throughout the project lifecycle and establishing robust controls foundations at inception including WBS, CBS, baseline schedule, and controls plan.

• Provide BU MDs and Heads of Operations with early warning of schedule slippage, cost-overrun risk, and change exposure, with clear, actionable recommendations for corrective action. Support BU teams in preparing for contractor meetings, negotiating change orders, and resolving claims.

• Contributes with BU assigned teams in preparing and reporting project performance updates to COO and Investment Committee presentations and build project controls capability within BU teams through coaching, knowledge transfer, and on-the-job guidance.

3. Schedule & Cost Assurance Valmore COO Project Controls Sr. Manager

• Critically assess contractor-submitted Primavera P6 schedules for logic, resource loading, critical-path integrity, and contractual milestone compliance; independently verify progress-measurement methodologies and challenge claims where evidence is insufficient.

• Review and validate contractor cost reports, forecasts, Cost-to-Complete (CTC) and Estimate at Completion (EAC) submissions, and implement Earned Value Management from the Owner's perspective, independently tracking CPI, SPI, and cost-performance trends.

• Monitor expenditure against the Owner's approved budget, review and certify contractor invoices and payment applications against milestone conditions, and report monthly to the COO on cost performance, budget exposure, and forecast final cost.

4. Risk, Change & Contract Controls

• Maintain the Owner's project Risk Register across the capital portfolio, facilitate risk workshops with contractors and internal stakeholders, and conduct independent quantitative (Monte Carlo) analysis to validate contingency adequacy and advise on drawdown and base line decisions.

• Administer the Owner's change-management process independently assessing contractor variations, claims, and change orders for cost and schedule impact and protect the Group's contractual position by ensuring scope changes are properly authorized before execution.

• Contribute to studying claim assessments with the legal and commercial teams, reaching dispute resolution, and contract close-out, maintaining comprehensive, audit-ready records of all change events, approvals, correspondence, and decisions, and ensuring EPC contracts embed appropriate controls requirements pre-award.

5. Reporting & Portfolio Governance

• Produce the monthly Capital Projects Dashboard for the COO and Board covering schedule, cost, EVM, risk, and change across all active EPC projects using Power BI, Primavera Analytics, or equivalent tools to maintain an integrated portfolio level view.

• Proactively seek coaching, mentoring, and development support from the COO to enhance performance, strengthen leadership capabilities, and support long-term career growth.

• Establish and maintain the Group's -Owner's side- Project Controls framework, standards, and procedures for deployment across portfolio companies. Present status at COO reviews, BU project meetings, Investment Committee sessions, and Board presentations.

• Support due diligence on new capital investments, including project controls health checks and cost/schedule risk assessments.

6. Performance & Capability Building

• Advocate and develop the Group's Project Controls capability through coaching, training, mentoring, and talent pipeline development, while monitoring the performance and professional growth of direct reports and BU Representation.

• Promote collaboration across the portfolio by facilitating knowledge sharing, transferring best practices, and representing the Group in relevant industry and benchmarking forums.