Project Controls - AI

Project Controls - AI

The Project Controls role serves as the subject matter expert for project controls within the subsidiary, responsible for providing oversight, guidance, and independent review of project management practices and project financial performance. This role ensures consistency, accuracy, and discipline in project controls, including cost management, forecasting, reporting, and adherence to contractual requirements.

The position works closely with Project Managers and operational leadership to review project data, challenge assumptions, identify risks, and improve overall project performance. While not directly responsible for project execution, this role provides critical oversight and accountability to ensure projects are managed in alignment with company expectations and industry best practices.

This is a highly collaborative role that operates across project teams, finance, and leadership, strengthening controls, reinforcing standards, and driving improved visibility and decision-making.

The salary range for this position is $86,189-$144,228 per year. This position comes with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) plan with a 3% match, paid time off (PTO), and company-paid holidays.

This posting is intended to build our talent pool for future opportunities. Although there is not an immediate opening for this position, applications will be kept on file and reviewed when opportunities become available. This position is telecommute eligible.

Essential duties and responsibilities (including but not limited to):

• Serve as the subject matter expert for project controls, including planning, scheduling, cost management, forecasting, and reporting.
• Review and assess project budgets, forecasts, Estimate at Completion (EAC), and Estimate to Complete (ETC) for accuracy, completeness, and reasonableness.
• Validate project financial and operational reporting, including cost tracking, revenue recognition, and progress measurement.
• Review and evaluate project schedules (e.g., CPM schedules), ensuring alignment with scope, sequencing, and contractual requirements.
• Identify variances, trends, and risks across cost, schedule, and performance, and provide actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Provide independent oversight of project performance, ensuring adherence to established processes, controls, and contract requirements.
• Challenge assumptions, forecasts, schedules, and reporting presented by project teams to ensure realistic and supportable projections.
• Support project startup through review of project setup, cost structures, work breakdown structures, and reporting frameworks.
• Partner with Project Managers to strengthen schedule discipline, forecasting accuracy, and overall project controls practices.
• Provide focused oversight on complex, high-risk, or high-visibility projects, including recovery planning and risk mitigation strategies.
• Support change management processes, including evaluation of impacts to cost, schedule, and overall project performance.
• Support the development and continuous improvement of project controls processes, tools, and reporting practices within the subsidiary.
• Drive consistency in project controls practices through reinforcement, coaching, and alignment with established standards.
• Identify gaps in project controls execution and recommend improvements to strengthen operational performance and predictability.
• Develop and maintain reporting that provides leadership with visibility into project financial health, risks, and trends.
• Coordinate with Finance and Shared Services to ensure alignment in reporting, forecasting, and financial data.
• Provide leadership with analysis, insights, and recommendations to support informed decision-making.
• Maintain clear communication with project teams, operations, and executive leadership.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Supervision:
May provide functional guidance and oversight to project teams or project controls staff; no direct supervisory responsibility required.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business…