Project Controls Manager
Listed on 2026-08-31
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Management
Risk Manager/Analyst, Financial Manager, Contracts Manager, Project & Program Management
Location:
Remote | Project
Location:
Seattle, WA (On-Site)
Employment Type:
Full-time
Axiom is seeking a Project Controls Manager to support major transportation and infrastructure projects in the Seattle area and throughout the Pacific Northwest. This role provides leadership and oversight of integrated project controls functions, including planning and scheduling, cost control, forecasting, earned value and performance measurement, change management, risk coordination, and project reporting.
The ideal candidate brings strong project controls experience on complex rail, transit, and infrastructure programs and can lead project controls professionals, including planners/schedulers, while translating cost, schedule, and performance data into clear insights that support project teams, clients, and management decision-making.
Key Responsibilities- Project Controls Management
Lead and oversee the development and implementation of project controls processes, procedures, standards, and reporting systems.
Provide integrated oversight of planning and scheduling, cost control, forecasting, performance measurement, change management, and risk-related project controls activities.
Establish and monitor project performance metrics, earned value measures, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Ensure accuracy, consistency, integration, and reliability of cost, schedule, progress, and project controls data across project teams.
Lead and support project controls staff, including planners/schedulers, and provide recommendations to project leadership regarding performance, emerging issues, trends, mitigation strategies, and corrective actions.
- Cost & Forecast Management
Oversee project budgets, commitments, expenditures, accruals, forecasts, contingency utilization, and Estimate at Completion (EAC) development.
Review cost trends, variances, productivity, and forecast changes and identify potential impacts to project budgets and overall performance.
Review contractor estimates, change orders, cost proposals, and time-related cost impacts in coordination with project teams.
Oversee cost forecasting and cost/schedule integration, including alignment of project budgets, WBS/CBS structures, progress measurement, and control accounts.
Provide project leadership and clients with clear analysis of financial performance, forecasts, trends, and project exposure.
- Schedule Management
Oversee the development, maintenance, review, and analysis of baseline, update, recovery, cost-loaded, and resource-loaded schedules. Review and validate critical path analysis, milestone performance, float,
constraints, schedule variances, progress, and schedule risks.Provide senior-level review of contractor schedule submissions, schedule narratives, time impact analyses, what-if scenarios, and recovery schedules.
Oversee schedule performance reporting and ensure schedule information is integrated with cost, progress, resource, productivity, and forecasting data.
Guide planners/schedulers and project teams in schedule recovery planning, mitigation strategies, and performance improvement initiatives.
- Change, Risk & Performance Management
Oversee the integration of change and risk information into project controls, including identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting of cost and schedule impacts.
Lead or support risk and change discussions, maintain appropriate registers and logs, and ensure emerging issues are reflected in forecasts and project performance reporting.
Review and evaluate cost and schedule impacts associated with proposed changes, including change orders and delay-related impacts.
Oversee contingency tracking, risk-based forecasting, and trend management to support informed project decision-making.
Ensure approved changes are properly documented and incorporated into
budgets, schedules, forecasts, and project controls systems. - Reporting & Stakeholder Support
Oversee the preparation of dashboards, earned value and performance reports, forecasts, schedule narratives, variance analyses, and other project controls deliverables for project leadership and clients.
Review and present integrated cost, schedule, change, risk, and performance…
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