Project Controls Lead

About Us

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and manage project controls teams on a day-to-day basis, ensuring clear priorities, delivery focus, and accountability
• Drive integration of cost, schedule, and progress data, ensuring alignment and a single version of the truth
• Consolidate complex information into clear, concise, and decision-ready insights for management
• Ensure all reporting is consistent, accurate, and aligned across projects and stakeholders
• Establish and enforce structured workflows, improving efficiency and eliminating disconnects across teams
• Act as the key interface across disciplines and with the client, aligning expectations and outputs
• Identify issues early, take ownership, and drive resolution across teams
• Operate under pressure to deliver high-quality outputs to tight deadlines
• Improve processes and ways of working in a practical and implementable manner
• Bring together fragmented teams and environments into a cohesive, aligned function
  
  

Key Capabilities

• Ability to plan ahead and stay ahead of issues
• Strong information consolidation and synthesis skills
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure and ambiguity
• Strong coordination and leadership across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Confidence in driving decisions and pushing for outcomes
• Ability to simplify complex data into clear, actionable messages
• Minimum 12+ years’ experience in EPC/EPCm environments, with exposure to large capital projects and multi-project portfolio delivery
• Proven experience leading or coordinating project controls, cost, or planning teams in complex delivery environments
• Strong technical background in cost management and planning, with the ability to understand and challenge outputs across disciplines
• Demonstrable experience working across integrated cost, schedule, and performance reporting frameworks
• Experience managing stakeholders, including client-facing interactions within major project environments
• Degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Project Controls, or a related discipline (typically required for visa and compliance purposes)