Project Control Manager

Confidential; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a Project Controls Manager to lead the controls discipline for a brownfield electrification project at a large operating facility. The role emphasizes protecting capital, maintaining project baselines, and driving proactive project leadership in a live operation environment.

The PCM will own cost control, forecasting, change control, and risk management, coordinating across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure on-time delivery and

Qualifications

• 15 years' experience in project controls or related discipline.
• 8+ years in a project controls role on large-scale capital infrastructure.
• Proven ability to present controls position to executives in English.

Responsibilities

• Maintain integrated baseline across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning.
• Own cost control, forecasting and forecast-to-complete, align with schedule.
• Run change control and maintain auditable change log.
• Lead risk and opportunity process with function leads and feed forecasts.
• Meet with engineering teams to surface issues early and keep controls current.
• Manage and develop the project controls sub-team (Planner, Cost Engineer, Contracts Lead, Document Controller).

Skills

Integrated schedule and cost control

Earned-value management

Change control

Job description

As part of the project leadership team, the Company is looking for an individual to lead the project controls discipline for the Project. The role is the Project Controls Manager (PCM).

Project implementation is a key value driver in the Company. This project is different from a new-build. It is a brownfield electrification of a large-scale operating facility. The heavy equipment moves from diesel-hybrid to fully electric, and the substation, distribution and charging infrastructure to power it is built around live operations. Value is protected, not created: operational throughput must not degrade, capital must stay disciplined across a phased and stage-gated investment, and the decarbonisation commitments driving the project must be met.

To be successful in this role, we need our Project Controls Manager to be a source of truth on performance, a centre of excellence for project management knowledge, and a driving force for proactive and effective project management and leadership.

Principal Accountabilities

• The integrated project baseline — scope, schedule and cost — and the variance reporting against it.
• The project's cost control, forecasting and change-control processes.
• The risk and opportunity management process, including the register and the quantified effect of the top risks on cost and completion.
• The reporting cycle: correct and timely reporting to the project team, the Project Director, the Head of Asset Delivery and the function leads; to the corporate Program Lead and PMO; and to other corporate counterparts, as required, covering both leading and lagging indicators.
• The data and analysis the Project Director takes to each stage gate and to the Steering Committee.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the integrated baseline across engineering, procurement, construction, equipment and commissioning, and report actual-versus-baseline on a regular cycle.
• Own cost control and forecasting. Track commitments, actuals and forecast-to-complete, and keep the cost report consistent with the schedule.
• Run change control. Assess every change for its effect on scope, cost and schedule before it is approved, and keep the change log auditable.
• Run the risk and opportunity process with the function leads, and feed schedule-risk and cost-risk analysis into the forecast.
• Meet regularly with the electrical, civil, equipment and OT teams to keep the controls picture current and to surface issues early.
• Manage the project controls sub-team — the Planner, Cost Engineer, Contracts Lead and Document Controller — and develop their skills.

Critical Qualifications / Skills / Experience

Experience

• 15 years' experience overall, including a minimum of 8 years in a project controls role on large-scale capital infrastructure.
• Accountability for project controls on at least two large-scale (> USD 100M) and complex capital projects.
• Expert in integrated schedule and cost control, earned-value management and change control.
• Building and defending a controls position to project and executive stakeholders in written and spoken English.
• Working in a culturally and technically diverse team, internally and externally to your organisation.

Preferred (but not essential)

• Project controls on works delivered inside a live, operating facility (brownfield).
• Exposure to long-lead equipment procurement — switchgear, transformers or heavy equipment.
• An advanced project management or controls qualification — APM, PMI-SP, AACE or equivalent.