Project Controls Manager

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HDR is looking for a Project Controls Manager to join our team. The primary role of this position is to develop and maintain project controls practices on assigned projects, with the goal to meet scope, schedule, and budget performance. This role will work alongside the Program and Project Managers to establish project controls approach for the project and, and when necessary, manage a project controls team to actively monitor project performance plan and identify deficiencies if necessary.

The type of projects this role will engage in ranges from industrial facilities, pipelines and terminals, substations and transmission lines, renewable resources, power generation, and waste facilities. This role is expected to play a central role in program delivery and assist the Program Manager in assessing program’s health and KPIs. Depending on the size of the project or program, this role may manage a team of project controls specialists from schedule, cost, risk, earned value, document control, and PMIS (Project Management Information System) when executing program work.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop project controls processes and procedures for assigned programs/projects to set up a framework to manage scope, budget and schedule. The work streams under project controls include schedule management, cost management, change management, risk management, and document management.
• Manage and direct a team of project controls specialists and document controls specialists to implement project controls plan for the program.
• Collaborate with corporate project controls director and business group business class lead for consistent project controls approach.
• Work with project manager, accountants and other team leads to develop work breakdown structure and cost breakdown structure.
• Develop, update, and analyze CPM schedules for projects including variance analysis.
• Facilitates multi-stakeholders interactive planning sessions such as schedule workshop.
• Coordinate with teams regarding the interface with owner’s activities, permitting, real estates, engineering, construction and commissioning schedule.
• Review and oversight of contractor's schedules for assigned work scope.
• Recommends schedule work-around and mitigation efforts to the team.
• Develops earned value method and coordinates such system with schedule update.
• Communicates project status to management regularly via formal meeting and report.
• Assist project manager in monthly reporting and meeting.
• Interact with engineering discipline leads & construction managers to understand issues and conflicts impacting schedule.
• Establishes cost control method for the assigned project or program.
• Support Project and Program Managers in preparing and implementing change management procedure.
• Work closely with the PMIS team to recommend technology solutions to manage data and information that the program will receive, generate, analyze, consume and communicate to stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, engineering management, accounting, business administration or…