18 Dec 2020 Project Controls News

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Covestro; As one of the world’s largest high-tech polymer material suppliers producing specialty chemicals for a broad range of applications including heat insulation foams and transparent polycarbonate plastics, they are utilizing project controls software as a part of their Corporate Digital Transformation Strategy. Covestro required a centralized single source of truth to standardize project control practices across its project portfolio, increase consistency of its reporting, and further increase forecast accuracy.  Read this case study to learn more. 

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Merry Christmas from Project Controls Global and Partners.

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PCGlobal  is happy to announce that our recent 5-month JV with the well-established and respected Carbon60 is being extended.  

Carbon60 is a leader in recruitment, continually evolving to support all of their candidates. We choose them because they work for their candidates with empathy, structure and a transparent vision for you their clients’ needs. Carbon60 have an enviable portfolio of European and International clients, this makes our collaboration great!!  

Collaboration: Our expertise and their reach is a unique combination to make sure our candidates have a professional experience knowing that we do not just throw CVs with names, we UNDERSTAND your roles “technically”. We have strategically positioning ourselves to prove that you are not just a name on a CV, we know what the next career pathway is right for you after a consultation and we suggest a direction to take with intelligence so you get true “knowledge” within your chosen career.

Our experiences come from working with planning, scheduling, quantity surveying, cost, contract, commercial, risk, claims and project controls practitioners globally. PCGlobal work with clients and other recruitment companies to deliver a better supply of candidates within our niche sector. We will offer assurances on any introduction that our candidates are fully technically competent for your global commissions. We are passionate about offering much needed added value to the Planning, Claims and Project Controls industry, our aim is simple, take away bad project planning.

Live Jobs – get yourself 2021 ready!!

Project Controls:

• London, Manchester, St Albans and Birmingham: (permanent)
• Water, Gas / Utilities major projects.  
• £65,000 to £90,000 + Car + package

Planning, Senior & Managers jobs:

• Hertfordshire, Surrey, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham and London
• 1^st principal planning experience: Concept to Close-out, WBS, Cost, Risk and understanding technical sequencing of programmes
• Civil Engineering, MoD and Build sectors
• £60,000 – £95,000 Salary plus packages, allowances: Flexible on working from home, Security clearance may be required.

Project Controls Managers:

• St Albans, Liverpool and Manchester
• Freelance at £680 per day (inside IR35) moving to a Staff role
• Water and Gas projects: Flexible on working from home

Planning Engineers, Senior Planners: Site Engineers that want to move into planning, project planners call us and find out what we can do for you. 

We work within: Civil Engineering / Highways England, Rail / Signalling, Built / Residential, MoD, Data Centres and Healthcare major projects. 

Call us for career advice, technical suggestion to develop you via our partners or even just to talk, we are good like that.

Candidates:

Contact David Logie david.logie@projectcontrols.com or call +44(0)7549 651 736 for a confidential discussion around your career development in planning or career intentions, we do more than just recruitment.

HOW WE WORK: 

We do NOT scattergun CVs.  We work with you, we want to know YOU

1^ST Consultation – get to know YOU

2^nd Career discussion (direction & progression)

3^rd Clients to approach (geographical, remuneration & personal development)  

4^th Approach 3 clients at a time (verbally) and intelligence

5^th CV submission & Interview process

Clients

Contact David Logie david.logie@projectcontrols.com or call +44(0)7549 651 736 . We offer you 20 years of building relationships with technically solid candidates, globally. We are a good starting point for you to hire a technically qualified professional.

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