Project Controls Manager
Oversees project controls—cost, schedule, risk, and change—on large heavy-civil infrastructure programs (highways, transit, aviation, water). Reviews contractor submittals, runs earned value and forecast analysis, leads monthly reporting cycles, and may mentor controls staff using tools like Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Oracle Unifier.
- Compensation
- $130K–$205K / yr
- Location
- Sacramento, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, finance, business, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10+ years of project controls experience on large (>$500M) complex heavy-civil infrastructure projects
- Experience integrating cost and schedule data on a common WBS/CBS, including baseline management and change control
- Experience applying earned value methods and critical path schedule analysis
- Experience reviewing contractor cost and schedule submittals against contract requirements and verified progress
- Experience leading or directing project controls staff on a capital program
- Proficiency with scheduling and program cost controls software (e.g., Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Oracle Unifier, EcoSys, e-Builder)
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite / Office 365
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent multi-tasking and organizational skills
Nice to have
- Master's degree in construction management, engineering, finance, or business
- Active professional certifications such as CCP, PSP, or EVP (AACE), and/or PMP (PMI)
- Experience leading owner's project controls on a highway, bridge, transit/rail, aviation, or water/wastewater program exceeding $1B
- Experience standing up a project controls function on a new program
- Experience integrating a quantitative cost or schedule risk model with program baselines
- Experience supporting claims, delay analysis, or dispute resolution on programs exceeding $1B
- Experience configuring or administering controls modules of a program management information system
- Proficiency with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Cloud Analytics, or other dashboard KPI reporting software
Full description
About the Positions
We’re seeking Project Controls Managers to support large, complex heavy civil infrastructure programs, including highways, roads, bridges, transit (bus and rail), aviation (international airports), and water/wastewater projects delivered through both traditional and alternative delivery methods. These roles sit where cost, schedule, risk, and change come together, so the baseline, the forecast, and the performance a program reports all tell the same story. We are looking for people who can defend a number in front of a contractor and in front of program leadership on the same day.
This post is for future roles and not for a specific opportunity that is available right now. We accept applications and conduct interviews in advance of upcoming hiring needs. When a candidate is selected, their profile is activated in our talent pool for this specialty area. We notify our talent pool candidates first whenever we have a project need.Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Oversee the program’s integrated controls system, including the work breakdown and cost breakdown structures, coding standards, and baseline change procedures, so cost and schedule data reconcile to the same source.
- Review and validate contractor cost and schedule submittals, including baseline schedules, monthly updates, progress payments, and contingency drawdown requests, against contract requirements and verified field progress.
- Analyze earned value, cost and schedule performance indices, and productivity trends, and surface the variances that will move the forecast before they show up in a monthly report.
- Evaluate change proposals, delay claims, and time impact analyses for cost and schedule merit, and recommend a position to program leadership.
- Oversee the program forecast, cash flow projection, and contingency and reserve position, and test the assumptions behind each of them.
- Coordinate the risk register with the cost and schedule baselines so quantified exposure carries into the forecast and into contingency decisions.
- May lead the monthly controls cycle, presenting cost and schedule status, trends, and recommended corrective action to program leadership.
- Coordinate controls across adjacent contracts and program interfaces so impacts that cross package boundaries are captured before they land in a claim.
- Coordinate that work across roadway and structures packages, systems and trackwork contracts, airfield phasing, and water and utility relocation work.
- Coordinate across estimating, scheduling, engineering, contracts, document control, and finance so one set of numbers supports program decisions.