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Daniel Bird Email & Phone Number
Project Director (Project Controls) at Turner & Townsend
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Turner & Townsend
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Project Director (Project Controls) at Turner & Townsend
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Greater Aberdeen Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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Daniel Bird is listed as Project Director (Project Controls) at Turner & Townsend at Turner & Townsend, based in Greater Aberdeen Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at woodgroup.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Daniel Bird.
Daniel Bird previously worked as Project Director at Turner & Townsend and Senior Project Controls Manager, Regional PCM for Europe & Africa at Wood. Daniel Bird holds Bsc Quantity Surveying from Robert Gordon University.
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Over 20 years working in the oil and gas, energy and construction industries in a variety of Project Control Manager and Cost Engineering roles across modifications and large EPC projects, with responsibilities for managing and leading teams across multiple UK and overseas locations.Strong track record of problem solving and enhancing the project controls and cost engineering services through continuously improving and developing procedures, processes, reports and systems to minimise inefficient working practices and deliver a value adding service. During my 18 years at Wood, I was personally responsible for developing the careers of my team members through mentoring, training and motivation.KEY SKILLS:- Over 20 years of experience with all aspects of project controls.- Experience leading and managing project controls and cost engineering teams for several different clients in multiple office locations.- Experience managing the project controls function across Europe and Africa with over 200 personnel in multiple countries and office locations.- Cost engineering background managing budgets, commitments, expenditure, value of work done, forecasting, reporting and trend analysis.- In-depth knowledge of estimating and planning along with project management principles and techniques.- Excellent leadership, people management, communication and motivational skills.- Proactive attitude.- Experience in setting and managing functional and operational objectives.- Excellent cost system knowledge, including assisting with development of new functionality.- Focused on commercial awareness, managing client costs and change management.- Experienced in several different commercial models including reimbursable, target price and lump sum.- Adaptable working practices for work scopes ranging from repair orders, modifications, FEED’s, EPC projects, duty holder, operations and maintenance, decommissioning and manpower supply.- Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships at all levels of the business and with clients.- Good working knowledge of Power BI and have personally developed and rolled out several project controls performance dashboards.
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10 roles · 16 years
Daniel Bird work experience
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Senior Project Controls Manager, Regional Pcm For Europe & Africa
Promoted to Senior Project Controls Manager and transferred into a functional management role supporting the Project Controls Leadership Team within the UK and Africa business:Ensured that all the contracts were suitably resourced, and procedures and systems were in place so that the project controls function played a major role in the successful delivery.
May 2014 - May 2021
Chief Cost Engineer
Promoted to Chief Cost Engineer for the UK whilst also carrying out my Lead Cost Engineering and Project Controls Manger roles. I was responsible for over 60 cost engineers across 20 contracts in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Hull and Runcorn and deputising for the UK head of Project Controls.Worked closely with the UK Project Controls Leadership Team to ensure that.
2010 - 2019
~9 yrs
Project Controls Manager
At the start of 2012 was promoted into the management team on the Total Contract (£60m/year) as the Project Controls Manager. I was responsible for a team of over 30 including cost engineers, estimators, planners, supply chain and warehouse personnel based in Aberdeen and Glasgow working on modifications and several standalone EPC projects:Ensured all.
Jan 2012 - Apr 2014
Lead Cost Engineer
Transferred onto the Total Contract as the Lead Cost Engineer managing a team of 6 in Aberdeen and Glasgow and responsible for the Elgin and Franklin Assets (£25m/year) and the standalone Elgin Additional Living Quarters Project (£35m):Responsible for all budgets, client PO’s, commitment, expenditure, value of work done, accruals, cost forecasting and.
Mar 2008 - Dec 2011
Lead Cost Engineer
Promoted to Lead Cost Engineer on the BP Contract with responsibility for a team of 25 cost engineers and estimators. I continued to manage several assets, Kittiwake Tie-In to Unity project (£5m) and the Fiddich tie-back FEED including 3 months as the interim project manager:Responsible for all budgets, client PO’s, commitment, expenditure, cost.
Jan 2006 - Mar 2008
Senior Cost Engineer & Principal Cost Engineer
Promoted to Senior Cost Engineer, and then subsequently to Principal Cost Engineer the following year on the BP Contract. I continued to have responsibility for the ETAP, Everest and Lomond assets (£30m/year), Lomond Mid-Life Compression project (£15m) and the Jigsaw project (£5m):Responsible for managing all budgets, client PO’s, commitment, expenditure.
Mar 2004 - Dec 2005
Cost Engineer
Transferred to the BP Contract in Aberdeen as the Cost Engineer for the ETAP, Everest and Lomond assets (£30m/year) and managed several standalone projects including the Lomond Mid-Life Compression project (£15m) and the Jigsaw project (£5m):Responsible for managing all budgets, client PO’s, commitment, expenditure, cost forecasting and reporting on a.
Jan 2003 - Feb 2004
Cost Engineer
Moved to Wood Group in 2002 as a Cost Engineer and was assigned to the Shell NAM Project in Holland for a three-month period supporting the Lead Cost Engineer. Assigned various tasks including updating cost reports, budget management, cost forecasting, variation management and checking weekly time bookings.
Oct 2002 - Dec 2002
Design & Build Quantity Surveyor
Mansell
Worked as a Design and Build Quantity Surveyor preparing commercial and technical bids for various clients within the construction industry including the Ministry of Defence, NCR, NoSWA, Aberdeen City Council and others. Main tasks were producing take off’s, preparing bill of quantities, reviewing commercial bid evaluations, re-measurements, site visits to.
Aug 1998 - Sep 2002
2 education records
Daniel Bird education
Bsc Quantity Surveying
Robert Gordon University
Hnd Quantity Surveying
Robert Gordon University
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Daniel Bird works for Turner & Townsend.
What is Daniel Bird's role at Turner & Townsend?
Daniel Bird is listed as Project Director (Project Controls) at Turner & Townsend at Turner & Townsend.
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AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @woodgroup.com for Daniel Bird at Turner & Townsend.
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Daniel Bird is based in Greater Aberdeen Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom while working with Turner & Townsend.
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Daniel Bird has worked for Turner & Townsend, Wood, and Mansell.
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Daniel Bird holds Bsc Quantity Surveying from Robert Gordon University.
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Daniel Bird is listed with skills including Finance.
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