Chief Project Controls & Delivery Leader

WSP Global Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Retirement savings

Paid time off

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. is seeking a transformational executive to establish and lead a national Project Controls organization spanning business lines, markets, and geographies.

The role will build the function from its formative stage into an integrated team of about 200 professionals, defining operating models, leadership, talent strategy, and a scalable delivery framework. The executive will partner with senior leaders to drive governance, performance insight, and timely decision support, enabling

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, finance, project management, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Establish vision, charter, governance model, organizational structure, operating plan, and service-delivery framework for the Project Controls organization.
• Develop workforce strategy to grow to ~200 staff through recruitment, transitions, and talent development.
• Define roles, responsibilities, competencies, career paths, staffing ratios, and succession plans.
• Recruit, develop, engage, and retain a diverse, high-performing national team.
• Lead the development of responsibility matrices, rules of engagement, and clear ownership for projects.
• Define how services will be requested, prioritized, priced, staffed, deployed, and evaluated.
• Coordinate interfaces among Project Managers, Finance, Operations, and enabling functions.
• Roll out the model in phases: strategy, mobilization, pilots, expansion, and national implementation.
• Establish standardized processes for project setup, forecasting, reporting, invoicing, and closeout.
• Create a data-management strategy and advance automation and AI-enabled solutions.

Skills

Leadership experience

Project controls

Forecasting

Earned value

Contract administration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/construction/related

Master’s degree (preferred)

Professional certifications (PMP/AACE PMI-SP/PgMP)

Tools

Power BI

InEight

enterprise financial systems

Job description

WSP Global Inc. is seeking a transformational executive to establish and lead a national Project Controls organization spanning business lines, markets, and geographies.

The role will build the function from its formative stage into an integrated team of about 200 professionals, defining operating models, leadership, talent strategy, and a scalable delivery framework. The executive will partner with senior leaders to drive governance, performance insight, and timely decision support, enabling