Senior Project Controls Manager

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of progressively responsible project controls experience supporting large, complex engineering, construction, infrastructure, industrial, energy, or capital projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading project controls delivery across scheduling, cost management, forecasting, budgeting, estimating, risk, change management, and performance reporting.
• Advanced Primavera P6 experience, including building and maintaining integrated schedules, resource loading, baseline management, critical-path analysis, and schedule recovery planning.
• Direct experience configuring and implementing Project Management Information Systems, rather than solely using PMIS platforms as an end user.
• Experience gathering business and client requirements and translating them into software requirements, workflows, approval chains, user permissions, reporting structures, dashboards, and governance standards.
• Experience partnering with IT teams and software providers to configure, troubleshoot, integrate, or tailor PMIS solutions to project and organizational requirements.
• Experience supporting large capital projects with significant complexity, multidisciplinary teams, and elevated schedule, cost, or delivery risk.
• Proven ability to organize and lead project controls teams across multiple disciplines, including scheduling, cost, estimating, document controls, and technology.
• Ability to serve as a technical subject matter expert and trusted resource for project managers, clients, project controls professionals, and system users.
• Strong leadership, communication, client-facing, and stakeholder-management skills, with an interest in helping grow a project controls capability. Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant project controls experience.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting projects valued around $500M or more.
• Background in power delivery, substations, transmission, power generation, renewable energy, mining, industrial facilities, oil and gas, pipelines, or environmental services.
• Experience with PMIS platforms such as Kahua, Aurigo, Oracle Primavera Unifier, InEight, Procore, e-Builder, or Autodesk Construction Cloud.
• Experience facilitating client workshops and translating project-delivery requirements into technical and operational solutions.
• Previous consulting experience advising clients on project controls strategy, technology, governance, maturity, and process improvement. Experience establishing or growing a project controls team, program, or center of expertise.

Job Description

The Senior Project Controls Manager will serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert for project controls, PMIS implementation, and advanced project scheduling across large, complex capital projects. This individual will partner with project managers, clients, IT teams, software providers, and multidisciplinary project teams to define project controls requirements and translate them into practical system configurations, workflows, approval structures, reporting tools, dashboards, permissions, and governance processes. They will lead the development and management of integrated, resource-loaded Primavera P6 schedules; oversee cost, forecasting, estimating, risk, change management, and performance-reporting activities; and recommend corrective actions when projects deviate from established baselines. This person will also organize and guide project controls professionals across scheduling, cost, estimating, document controls, and technology to ensure defined project scopes are delivered successfully. As HDR expands this capability, the Senior Project Controls Manager will help establish best practices, mentor project controls staff, support multiple business groups and projects, and contribute to the growth of a local project controls team. This role is paying between $68 - $76 per hour.

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