Head of Project Controls – Infrastructure & Capital Projects

Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects, LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 185,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects is seeking a senior project controls leader to drive governance, strategy, and performance across cost, schedule, risk, change, and reporting for complex pharmaceutical and biotech capital programs.

You will build and mentor high-performing controls teams, serve as trusted advisor to clients, and establish integrated project controls frameworks and KPIs to enable executive decision-making. Onsite at client sites will be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Finance, Business, or a related discipline; an advanced degree is preferred
• Minimum 15 years of progressive capital-project experience, with deep expertise in project controls for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments
• Demonstrated success leading the project controls function on large, complex, multi-contractor projects or programs, preferably including investments valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars or more
• At least 7 years of experience directly leading project controls professionals and multidisciplinary teams, including resource planning, coaching, performance management, and quality assurance

Responsibilities

• Lead project controls delivery for complex pharmaceutical and biotechnology capital programs, driving governance, strategy, and performance across cost, schedule, risk, change, and reporting functions.
• Build, develop, and mentor high-performing project controls teams, including cost managers, estimators, schedulers, risk specialists, change managers, and reporting analysts.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients and project leadership, transforming project data into executive-level insights, recommendations, and decision support.
• Establish and maintain integrated project controls frameworks, standards, procedures, KPIs, reporting cycles, baselines, and assurance processes.
• Oversee project financial performance, including estimating, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, contingency management, cost reporting, and estimate-at-completion projections.
• Lead integrated schedule management across the full project lifecycle, ensuring alignment, critical-path visibility, schedule integrity, and risk-informed planning.
• Direct risk, opportunity, and change management processes, ensuring impacts are evaluated, governed, mitigated, and communicated effectively.
• Provide proactive performance management through forecasting, variance analysis, earned-value management, executive dashboards, and governance reporting.
• Partner with project, engineering, construction, commercial, finance, quality, manufacturing, and operations teams to improve project integration and delivery outcomes.
• Support business growth and capability development through client relationship management, proposals, recruitment, training, continuous improvement initiatives, and project controls best practices
• Onsite at client site: The work location for this role is onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery and cultivate our client relationships.

Skills

Project controls leadership

Cost management

Scheduling

Risk analysis

Executive reporting

Team leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Finance, or related

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Primavera P6

Cost management platforms

Reporting/ visualization tools

Job description

Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects is seeking a senior project controls leader to drive governance, strategy, and performance across cost, schedule, risk, change, and reporting for complex pharmaceutical and biotech capital programs.

You will build and mentor high-performing controls teams, serve as trusted advisor to clients, and establish integrated project controls frameworks and KPIs to enable executive decision-making. Onsite at client sites will be required.