Simon Arnott
Project Director Specialising in Project Controls in Data Centre and Real Estate Delivery @Turner & Townsend
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Project Director Specialising in Project Controls in Data Centre and Real Estate Delivery @Turner & Townsend
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Lead project controls strategy and delivery for major data-centre and real estate programmes, providing cost, schedule, risk and governance leadership across multi-contract, high-value portfolios. Drive end-to-end performance assurance, ensuring clients achieve predictable outcomes in complex and fast-paced delivery environments.Key Responsibilities & Achievements• Directed project controls across hyperscale and enterprise data-centre programmes, strengthening cost, schedule and risk certainty for multi-million-pound delivery environments.• Designed and implemented programme-wide controls frameworks, embedding cost management, schedule controls, change control, risk governance and performance reporting across multi-disciplinary teams.• Improved forecasting accuracy and reporting clarity, creating integrated dashboards and analytics used by senior client decision-makers.• Strengthened programme governance, aligning PMO and PMC delivery models to client requirements and ensuring compliance with internal and external standards.• Led planning, cost and risk teams, setting delivery strategy, coaching high-performing specialists, and establishing consistent ways of working across contractors and stakeholders.• Managed commercial and contract controls across major forms of contract, ensuring strong change discipline.
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ABOUT SIMON ARNOTT
I am a Project Director at Turner & Townsend, specialising in Project Controls across data centres, major programmes and other complex capital delivery environments.With over 30 years of experience across project controls, planning, PMO, PMC, programme delivery, schedule, cost, risk and performance management, I have supported clients, owners, consultants and contractors in delivering major capital projects across a range of sectors.My focus is on using project controls as a practical leadership tool to improve delivery outcomes.Not simply to report progress, but to create clarity, strengthen forecasting, improve decision-making and support better integration across teams, stakeholders and delivery partners.My experience includes: • Project Controls leadership• Data centre delivery and mission-critical environments• Major programme delivery• PMO and PMC delivery models• Planning, scheduling and programme controls• Cost, risk and performance integration• Governance, reporting and decision supportI am particularly interested in the challenges shaping modern data centre and major project delivery, including commissioning, programme integration, PMO maturity, digital project controls, predictive analytics and AI-enabled forecasting.I use LinkedIn to share perspectives on project controls, data centres, major programmes, PMO, PMC, commissioning, planning, schedule, risk, cost and delivery strategy.If you work across data centres, infrastructure, project controls, PMO, PMC or major capital programmes, I would be pleased to connect.
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