Construction Project Controls Senior II

Sempra Infrastructure; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sempra Infrastructure in Houston, TX is seeking a senior Project Controls lead to oversee advanced methodologies for complex projects. You will forecast accurately, analyze risks, and align controls with corporate standards to optimize outcomes.

The role requires guiding Ready for Operations programs, resolving cost and schedule issues, and ensuring seamless integration with internal systems. A 4-year engineering degree and 8 years’ experience are typical prerequisites.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in engineering or related field required / equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8 years of related experience required.
• Experience supporting RFO Programs or project management within a plant environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads readiness for operations programs.
• Identifies and resolves project issues to keep projects on plan for cost, scope and schedule.
• Ensures integration of project control systems with accounting, procurement, and asset management.

Skills

Project Controls

Cost Control

Project Scheduling

Regulatory Compliance

Project Risk Management

Contract Management

Documentation

Technical Reporting

KPI/Metric Monitoring

Earned Value Management

Education

4-year degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Primary Purpose

Leads implementation of advanced project control methodologies for complex projects, ensuring accurate forecasting and risk analysis. Aligns project control practices with organizational standards to optimize outcomes.

#26-74697

Houston, Texas, USA

Job Category

Other

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full-time

Job Description

Primary Purpose

Leads implementation of advanced project control methodologies for complex projects, ensuring accurate forecasting and risk analysis. Aligns project control practices with organizational standards to optimize outcomes.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Leads Ready for Operations programs.
• Identifies and resolves project issues to ensure that projects stay on plan to meet overall cost, scope and schedule commitments.
• Ensures integration of project control systems with internal systems (accounting, procurement, asset management).
• Facilitates executive project reviews, translating complex data into insights for leadership decision‑making.
• Develops and delivers recommendations to improve processes, schedules and cost performance of projects.
• Ensures project controls processes align with company policies, procedures, and industry standards.
• Diagnoses systemic drivers of recurring cost or schedule volatility across projects and formulates root‑cause hypotheses.
• Defines data standards and control logic required to support advanced forecasting, benchmarking, or predictive modeling initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• Typically requires a 4-year degree in a relevant field (engineering or related field), or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

Experience

• Typically requires 8 years of related experience.
• Related experience supporting RFO Programs or project management within a plant environment preferred.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Project Controls Management - A process that encompasses the resources, procedures, and tools for the planning, monitoring, and controlling of all phases of the capital project lifecycle.
• Cost Control - The process of managing and minimizing expenses within an organization or project while maintaining desired levels of quality and performance, which involves monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing expenditures to achieve efficient resource allocation and financial stability.
• Project Scheduling - A mechanism to communicate what tasks need to get done and which organizational resources will be allocated to complete those tasks in what timeframe.
• Regulatory Compliance - Ensuring an organization's adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to its business processes.
• Project Risk Management - The process of identifying, analyzing and responding to any risk that arises over the life cycle of a project to help the project remain on track and meet its goal.
• Contract Management - Streamlining the creation, execution, storage or renewal of contracts, with a focus on compliance, often via software or other automated means.
• Documentation and Records Management - Creating, distributing, using, maintaining and disposition of recorded information maintained as evidence of business activities and transactions.
• Technical Reporting - The creation of detailed and clear reports documenting technical findings, incidents, and resolutions, often including data analysis and recommendations.
• KPI/Metric Monitoring - The monitoring of performance indicators that demonstrate how effectively a company is achieving key business objectives.
• Earned Value Management (EVM) - Measuring a project's progress at any given point in time, forecasting its completion date and final cost, and analyzing variances in the schedule and budget as the project proceeds.