Sr Team Leader-Project Controls

What We’re Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for the technical work and supervision of others’ work for one or more project controls disciplines, including but not limited to: scheduling, estimating, cost control, risk management, document control, and project management information systems. This position supports the technical aspect of project development and delivery in their functional area. Provides supervision and performs quality control/quality assurance on project controls work efforts, products, and deliverables.

The Sr Project Controls Team Leader provides guidance and direction and oversees the work of staff in their applicable discipline. Provides subject matter expertise in technical specialty and consults on complex projects to apply advanced knowledge, make recommendations, and deliver solutions.

The role focuses on leading the review, analysis, and management of complex project schedules across both design and construction phases, ensuring full compliance with project requirements and documentation. It requires deep expertise in Primavera P6, strong proficiency in evaluating mega‑project and large-scale transportation schedules—including design‑build delivery—and the ability to interface effectively with multidisciplinary project teams throughout the project lifecycle. Responsibilities include performing advanced schedule assessments, conducting claims‑related analyses such as time‑impact and windows analyses, and interpreting highway plans, specifications, and related technical documents.

Success in the role relies on strong communication skills, mastery of MS Office tools, and professional scheduling credentials such as AACE PSP or an equivalent certification.

• Responsible for the technical work and supervision of others’ work for one or more project controls disciplines including but not limited to scheduling, estimating, cost control, risk management, document control and project management information systems
• Creates, edits, and publishes guidelines, manuals, and documents for use by a portion of the office’s project controls staff.
• Supervises and performs quality control/quality assurance on project controls work efforts, products, deliverables.
• Supervisory duties typically include 2+ of the following (as applicable):
• Scheduling efforts including preparation and analysis of schedule baseline, progress schedules, specialty schedules, schedule analysis and project progress reporting.
• Estimating efforts including developing construction estimates, preparing independent cost estimates, and supporting scenario analysis.
• Budget/cost control efforts including guidance and oversight of the cost management system, preparation of cost report templates, and issue of monthly cost and change management report deliverables.
• Risk management efforts including preparation and analysis of risk‑based estimating products.
• PMIS/PMCS and document control efforts including administration, filing, and archiving of engineering, procurement, and construction documents, reports, deliverables, invoices, and business policies and procedures.
• Development, implementation, utilization and maintenance of management information systems, including doc control, cost and scheduling systems.
• Estimate validation, schedule validation, and constructability comments to support design teams during plan development.
• Supports the preparation of procurement documents related to project controls specifications.
• Prepares project managers and office leadership for internal and external meetings by providing reports, analysis, and backup documentation to assist in the management and dissemination of information, reports, and deliverables to project managers, office leadership, clients, and stakeholders.
• Supports department growth by participating in business…