Project Controls Manager

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General Overview of the Role

HDR is looking for a Project Controls Manager to join our team. This is a project-facing delivery role focused on helping project and program teams plan, monitor, and control scope, schedule, cost, risk, change, document management, and performance reporting. The role works directly with Program and Project Managers, delivery teams, project controls specialists, and client-facing stakeholders to establish practical controls approaches that support timely decisions and clear accountability.

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 delivery by translating project controls information into useful insight on project health, KPIs, constraints, and recovery actions. Depending on the size of the project or program, this role may manage a team of project controls specialists across schedule, cost, risk, earned value, document control, and PMIS (Project Management Information System) when executing program work.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide project-facing technical leadership for project controls delivery across assigned projects and programs, including schedule, cost, risk, change, document control, PMIS, reporting, and forensic support functions.
• Develop, maintain, and implement project controls plans, processes, procedures, reporting calendars, and governance requirements that support scope, budget, schedule, risk, change, document management, and delivery decision-making in line with HDR’s best practices.
• Provide technical direction, functional coordination, mentoring, and quality review for project controls and document control specialists supporting active project delivery, including schedule, cost, risk, change, document control, reporting, PMIS, and forensic support functions.
• Lead proposal, project startup, and transition activities by defining project controls scope, staffing needs, delivery assumptions, client relationship, win strategy including tools, reporting expectations, and implementation requirements.
• Lead integrated schedule development across HDR, client, contractor, design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning and third‑party interface activities, including schedule basis, update cadence, logic, critical path, float, progress measurement, and major milestone…