Project Controls Manager - Michels Infrastructure Solutions, Inc.

Location: Project-Based
Employment Type: Full-Time
Travel: Approximately 75% Travel Required

Drive Performance Across World-Class Mission-Critical Projects

Location: Project-Based
Employment Type: Full-Time
Travel: Approximately 75% Travel Required

Delivering hyperscale data centers and mission-critical infrastructure requires more than exceptional construction execution. It requires disciplined forecasting, accurate reporting, proactive risk management, cost visibility, and schedule integration. Project Controls Managers play a critical role in helping project teams make informed decisions, improve predictability, and successfully deliver some of North America's most complex infrastructure projects.

Michels Infrastructure Solutions (MIS) brings together the full capabilities of the Michels Family of Companies under a Super General Contractor (Super GC) model, providing mission-critical owners and developers with a single point of accountability for every phase of project execution. By combining self-performed specialty design, construction, and commissioning services, MIS delivers large-scale, multidisciplinary projects with greater control over safety, quality, schedule, and cost.

MIS specializes in the delivery of hyperscale data centers and mission-critical facilities, leveraging expertise across mass grading and site development, wet and dry utilities, fiber and telecommunications infrastructure, ground improvement, deep foundations, structural concrete, power infrastructure, and commissioning. Our integrated delivery approach enables customers to partner with a single-source team capable of executing some of North America's most complex and demanding infrastructure projects.

As a Project Controls Manager
, you will lead project controls functions supporting large-scale hyperscale data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects. You will be responsible for cost management, forecasting, budgeting, schedule integration, progress measurement, reporting, change management, and project performance analysis throughout the project lifecycle.

This role serves as a critical partner to project management, field operations, scheduling, procurement, accounting, engineering, and executive leadership teams. You will provide the visibility, analysis, and reporting necessary to support sound decision-making, proactive risk management, and successful project execution.

Success requires strong financial and analytical acumen, leadership capabilities, attention to detail, and the ability to convert complex project data into actionable business insights.

• Lead project controls activities supporting mission-critical and hyperscale infrastructure projects from project startup through closeout.
• Develop and maintain project budgets, forecasts, cash flow projections, cost reports, KPIs, and performance dashboards.
• Support project scheduling integration, progress tracking, forecasting, and performance measurement efforts.
• Collaborate with project teams to identify project risks, trends, opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Oversee project reporting processes and provide meaningful project performance analysis to project leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Drive consistency and continuous improvement across project controls processes, systems, and reporting standards.

• Manage project controls functions for hyperscale data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects.
• Monitor project costs, committed costs, labor productivity, procurement status, schedule performance, forecasts, and cash flow.
• Lead monthly forecasting activities and support project managers in evaluating project performance…