Program Delivery & Project Controls Lead

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Category Aviation

Description

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We’re looking for a Program Delivery & Project Controls Lead to join our growing Aviation division.

MJ seeks a Program Delivery & Project Controls Lead to help oversee the resourcing, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Capital Improvement Programs for a variety of MJ Aviation and other clients under MJ’s National Program Management Practice. The Program Delivery & Project Controls Lead serves as a strategic bridge among field execution, executive governance, and business expansion across our aviation and infrastructure practices.

By combining hands‑on construction oversight with advanced project controls expertise, this leader helps MJ’s program management teams to drive complex, multidisciplinary capital projects with full schedule and financial predictability. The ideal candidate brings a proven record of leading technical teams, optimizing processes and workflows, managing complex program controls, and cultivating trusted client partnerships that fuel long‑term regional growth.

Based primarily in a local MJ office, with travel to project sites or short‑term secondment to clients as needed, this professional’s central responsibility will be to design, implement, and continuously improve analytical systems that integrate operational, financial, and schedule KPIs to measure project and program portfolio performance, identify emerging trends and risks, forecast outcomes, and provide an objective, timely assessment of overall program health.

This hands‑on role requires disciplined project controls, strong field awareness, proactive communication, and the ability to translate performance data into actionable recommendations that support executive decision‑making and timely resolution of issues affecting scope, cost, schedule, quality, and operational readiness. The successful candidate will be able to support and manage assigned task responsibilities for multiple programs at any given time.

• Program & Construction Management Delivery
  • Provide executive-level program oversight and project or construction management leadership across complex aviation, municipal, and multi-site infrastructure capital improvement programs.
  • Direct and when necessary, perform full-lifecycle project activities from initial scope definition, estimating, and procurement through site development, field…