Project Controls Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Leads project controls activities across assigned projects, including cost management, scheduling, forecasting, reporting, risk management, estimating, and change management.
• Oversees project budgets, schedules, forecasts, and performance metrics, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities while recommending corrective actions to improve project outcomes.
• Develops and maintains project controls processes, procedures, and reporting standards that promote consistency, accountability, and effective project execution.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to project leadership and clients by providing project performance analysis, forecasts, risk assessments, and recommendations that support informed decision-making.
• Buils and maintains collaborative relationships with clients, project managers, contractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders to support successful project delivery.
• Leads, mentors, and develops project controls personnel by establishing performance expectations, supporting professional development, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• Drives continuous improvement by evaluating project controls processes, reporting practices, and operational performance to enhance efficiency, quality, and client service.
• Ensures compliance with company policies, client requirements, contractual obligations, and project controls standards.
• Leads the implementation, configuration, adoption, and continuous optimization of the Program Management Information System (PMIS/PCMS) to support standardized project delivery across the capital program.
• Establishes standardized project controls governance, data management practices, and enterprise reporting frameworks that promote consistency across multiple projects and stakeholders.
• Captures and coordinates integration of project controls systems with scheduling, financial, document management, and other enterprise systems to improve reporting, forecasting, and data integrity.
• Develops executive dashboards, portfolio-level reporting, key performance indicators (KPIs), and performance analytics that provide program leadership with meaningful project insights and decision support.
• Promotes successful implementation, user adoption, and continuous improvement of project controls technology.
• Supports capital improvement programs by ensuring project controls processes align with owner requirements, program governance, and operational considerations.

  Qualifications

  • Required: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Business, Project Management, or a related field; minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible Project Controls experience supporting complex capital construction or infrastructure projects; minimum of five (5) years of leadership experience managing project controls personnel, functions, or programs; demonstrated experience in cost management, scheduling, forecasting, estimating, reporting, change management, and risk management; strong analytical, financial, organizational, and problem-solving skills; excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills; demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships with clients, contractors, project teams, and executive leadership.
  • Preferred: Experience supporting owner organizations, program management firms, or complex capital improvement programs; experience supporting complex capital construction or infrastructure projects; experience with Project Controls Management Systems (PMIS/PCMS) and scheduling platforms such as Primavera P6, Oracle Unifier, PMWeb, Kahua, e-Builder, or similar systems; professional certifications such as PMP, PSP, CCP, EVP, PMI-SP, or equivalent; large capital program experience; demonstrated success implementing or optimizing enterprise PMIS/PCMS platforms; knowledge of integrating project controls systems with ERP, financial, scheduling, or document management platforms; experience developing executive dashboards, portfolio reporting, and performance analytics; experience leading multidisciplinary project controls teams.