Senior Manager, Regional Project Controls and Operations Support

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Full Time Management Deer Park, TX, US

3 days ago Requisition

The Senior Manager Project Controls and Operations Support is an Operations role responsible for supporting daily project management across Taurus Industrial Group’s South-Central Region. This role helps project teams maintain current job work in progress (WIP), track physical progress and costs, resolve execution issues, and deliver complete, accurate documentation so jobs can be invoiced promptly.

Reporting to the Sr. Vice President – South Central Region, this position supports the General Managers of the Freeport, Golden Triangle, and Louisiana P&Ls and works directly with Project Managers, Site Managers, field supervisors, coordinators, and Project Controls personnel across crafts and business lines.

The role is separate from the Finance FP&A business partner position. It owns coordination and follow-through on operational project controls and billing readiness;
Finance retains ownership of financial planning, consolidated forecasts, P&L analysis, and accounting. General Managers retain P&L accountability, and Project Managers retain responsibility for project delivery.

• Work directly with project teams on daily execution priorities from startup through closeout. Conduct regular jobsite visits and project reviews with Project Managers and Superintendents, providing field coaching and following up on execution issues.
• Maintain an active job action log with accountable owners and due dates; follow up on overdue items and escalate unresolved risks or decisions to Operations leadership.
• Review labor hours, quantities installed, milestones, productivity, and schedule progress against job plans; help Project Managers develop and track corrective actions.
• Support job startup by confirming scope, authorized budgets, cost codes, purchase orders, billing requirements, and documentation responsibilities before work begins.

• Maintain current operational job WIP and status records showing work performed, physical percent complete where applicable, actual and committed costs, remaining work, expected completion dates, changes, and billing status.
• Obtain and validate Project Manager updates on quantities, labor needs, and cost to complete; reconcile reported progress to field records and explain significant changes in job outlook.
• Monitor labor, overtime, materials, equipment, rentals, subcontractors, and other job costs against approved budgets and production plans; identify overruns, idle resources, and incorrect job coding for timely correction.
• Track commitments and costs incurred but not yet recorded, including pending supplier and subcontractor invoices; providing supporting details to Finance for accruals and job cost review.
• Review aging unbilled work and stalled jobs with Operations and Billing; identify documentation, approval, scope, or contract issues preventing invoicing and track their resolution.

• Coordinate the timely completion, receipt, and review of job documentation required by each contract and customer. Maintain a job-specific checklist and track missing items through receipt and acceptance by Billing.
• Ensure time records, daily reports, signed field tickets, equipment logs, material receipts, subcontractor support, progress quantities, and customer approvals are obtained by established billing deadlines.
• Check that billing support agrees to contract rates, authorized scope, purchase order limits, approved change orders, and job cost records; resolve discrepancies with Project Managers, Commercial Operations, and Billing.
• Deliver complete billing packages to Billing as work becomes billable under the contract; track handoff and returned packages and promptly resolve missing support or invoice questions.
• Maintain change order and extra-work logs, preserve supporting field records, and follow up on required authorization and customer approvals before the associated work can be billed.
• Coordinate final quantities, acceptance documents, punch lists, rental returns, demobilization records, and final billing support so completed jobs can be closed promptly.

• Maintain concise…