Manager Project Controls

Ivanhoe Electric Inc.; Casa Grande (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Ivanhoe Electric Inc. seeks a Manager of Project Controls to lead the integrated controls system for the Santa Cruz Copper Project. You will ensure cost, schedule, risk, change, and progress measurement align with readiness milestones and governance.

The role supports a hybrid IPT delivery model and reports to construction leadership, advancing baseline integrity and forecasting while coordinating with contractors and field leadership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of construction and capital project experience.
• Underground or heavy civil construction exposure.
• Experience establishing project controls systems early in projects; project set‑up from pre‑construction preferred.
• Owner-side or EPCM major project experience.

Responsibilities

• Set up the project controls framework and confirm readiness prior to major construction spend.
• Maintain alignment of WBS, budgets, schedules, progress measurement, and reporting structures.
• Prepare formal readiness assessments and flag structural gaps to leadership.
• Implement and maintain an integrated system of project truth across cost, schedule, risk, change, and documents.
• Lead the project controls team with clear roles, standards, and accountability.
• Integrate procurement, contracting, and logistics into baselines and reporting.
• Ensure auditable, compliant performance reporting for decision making.

Skills

Project controls

Scheduling

Cost control

Risk management

Contract management

Leadership

Underground construction

Education

Engineering degree

PE/PMP preferred

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

AACE

CostX

Job description

The Manager of Project Controls is responsible for implementing and managing the integrated project controls system for the Santa Cruz Copper Project, ensuring the project is fully prepared for healthy, safe, predictable, and measurable construction execution.

This role is responsible for the integrity of cost, schedule, risk, change, and progress measurement across early works and underground development scopes. The Manager provides timely, accurate controls reporting to the General Manager - Construction and ensures the project is structurally ready for construction scale-up and execution.

The Manager maintains project performance measurement standards and baseline integrity across engineering and construction, while field execution, contractor management, and productivity remain the responsibility of the construction leadership team.

To support the hybrid integrated project team (IPT) delivery model:

• Project Controls owns measurement methodology, baseline governance, forecasting, and performance assurance.
• Construction leadership owns means, methods, and field execution.
• Director of Contractor Services owns contractor onboarding and performance management.
• Superintendent owns day-to-day field delivery and quantity validation.

The Manager operates as the owner's independent performance function, not as the field execution lead.

Health & Safety

• Ivanhoe Electric Inc. is committed to a strong Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Program that protects the persons, property, and environment within our care from incidents. We believe that all incidents are preventable. Management, contractors, and all employees are collectively responsible for ensuring compliance with local government, occupational health, safety, and environmental regulations. Responsible for upholding and demonstrating the importance of the use and maintenance of Ivanhoe Electric's cloud-based, digitized, and centralized health and safety systems.
• Working in a healthy and safe manner at all times and sets an example for others, in doing so:
• Participating in the review and use of appropriate health and safety policies, protocols, standard operating procedures (SOP), and job hazard assessments (JHA).
• Maintains work areas and equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE), in a neat, and tidy condition and in good working order.
• Wears PPE appropriate for the nature of work being performed at all times.
• Attends daily toolbox meetings and health and safety and operational planning sessions with site management.
• Supports appropriate health and safety personnel in the development of policies and procedures.
• Acts as a representative of the company as necessary or appropriate for any relevant agency inspections and interactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Construction Readiness & Baseline Governance

Ensure the project is structurally ready for predictable construction execution.

• Set up the project controls framework and confirm readiness prior to major construction spend.
• Maintain alignment of WBS, budgets, schedules, progress measurement, and reporting structures.
• Prepare formal readiness assessments and flag structural gaps to the General Manager - Construction and project leadership.
• Integrated Controls Systems & Performance Standards

Implement and maintain a single, integrated system of project truth.

• Manage integrated cost, schedule, risk, change, progress, and document control systems.
• Implement performance measurement standards, KPIs, and assurance routines across owner and contractors.
• Produce consistent, auditable reporting that supports leadership decision-making.

Protect baseline integrity and forecast reliability.

• Maintain the integrated master schedule and cost baseline, and lead regular forecasting.
• Run risk management and formal change control processes to ensure early warning and baseline integrity.
• Report on critical path, cost exposure, contingency, and emerging risks to project leadership.
• Contractor, Procurement & Logistics Integration

Ensure delivery partners are aligned to the project control framework.

• Set and enforce contractor controls requirements and manage baseline approval processes.
• Integrate procurement, contracting, and logistics into cost, schedule, and risk baselines.
• Review contractor data quality, delivery risk, and reporting discipline, and elevate issues as needed.

Ensure the controls team and information environment support execution.

• Build and lead the project controls team with clear roles, standards, and accountability.
• Manage document management and quality systems to ensure auditable, compliant project records.
• Ensure quality, inspection, and turnover data are fully integrated into performance reporting.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline.
• Professional designation preferred (PE, PMP, AACE, or equivalent).
• 7+ years of construction and capital project experience, including hands-on scheduling and cost control.
• Significant underground or heavy civil construction exposure.
• Experience in establishing project controls systems from the early project phase; project set-up from pre-construction preferred.
• Demonstrated owner-side or Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) major project experience.
• Experience implementing cost control systems.
• Experience with multi-contractor delivery environments.