Project Control Manager

Teal Energi; Texas; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily per diem

Straight-time overtime pay

Job summary

Teal Energi seeks an experienced Project Controls Manager to lead scheduling, cost control, forecasting, and progress tracking for a multi-building data center campus in central Texas. The role requires advanced Primavera P6 proficiency, strong analytical abilities, and the ability to translate data into actionable insight for project leadership.

Responsibilities include developing integrated schedules, forecasting, risk analysis, and governance across disciplines, with Per Diem and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and status the integrated project schedule from Level III to Level IV/V as required.
• Integrate milestones, engineering deliverables, procurement, inspections, turnover and interfaces into the master schedule.
• Perform critical path, float, trend, delay, and recovery analyses to identify schedule risks and opportunities.
• Validate schedule progress with field leadership and reconcile progress.
• Quantify schedule impacts and support time-extension requests, recovery plans, and changes.
• Maintain project cost control systems including commitments, actuals, forecast‑at‑completion, cash flow, and variance reporting.
• Integrate schedule and cost information to support forecasting and performance measurement.
• Develop progress S-curves, dashboards, and weekly/monthly executive reports.
• Facilitate risk reviews, change management, and governance for project controls.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Executive reporting

Education

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

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Procore

Job description

About the Opportunity

Teal Energi is supporting a major AI infrastructure development delivering a large-scale, multi-building data center campus spanning thousands of acres with more than 500MW of planned power capacity. This opportunity is located in the central Texas area.

We are seeking an experienced Project Controls Manager to lead integrated project controls across this large-scale construction program. This role will oversee project scheduling, cost control, forecasting, progress measurement, manpower planning, risk analysis, and management reporting to ensure accurate project performance visibility and support informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience managing integrated project controls for complex construction or industrial projects, with advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, strong analytical capabilities, and the ability to translate project data into actionable insights for project leadership.

Compensation includes:

• Straight-time pay for qualifying overtime hours
• Daily per diem for eligible candidates

Key Responsibilities

Project Scheduling & Planning

• Develop, maintain, and status the integrated project schedule, from Level III planning through detailed, resource-loaded Level IV/V schedules as required.
• Integrate construction milestones, engineering deliverables, procurement activities, inspections, commissioning, turnover, and interface constraints into the master schedule.
• Perform critical path, float, trend, delay, and recovery analyses to identify schedule risks and opportunities.
• Validate schedule progress with field leadership and reconcile reported progress against installed quantities, labor hours, procurement status, and approved changes.
• Quantify schedule impacts and support time-extension requests, recovery plans, and change documentation.

Cost Control & Forecasting

• Maintain project cost control systems, including commitments, actual costs, forecast-at-completion, cash flow, change logs, contingency, and variance reporting.
• Integrate schedule and cost information to support accurate forecasting and project performance measurement.
• Identify emerging cost and schedule trends, evaluate potential impacts, and communicate findings to project leadership.
• Support cost and schedule performance reviews, forecasting updates, and corrective action planning.

Progress Measurement & Reporting

• Develop and maintain progress S-curves, workforce histograms, earned value reports, installed quantity tracking, dashboards, and executive-level weekly and monthly reports.
• Monitor key performance indicators and ensure project controls reporting is accurate, timely, and consistent.
• Establish reliable progress measurement processes and validate reported performance against actual field execution.
• Translate complex project data into clear, actionable information for project and executive leadership.

Risk, Change & Project Controls Governance

• Facilitate project risk and constraint reviews, maintaining action owners, due dates, and escalation thresholds.
• Support schedule impact assessments, delay analyses, recovery planning, and change management.
• Establish and maintain project controls standards, including coding structures, calendars, reporting cutoffs, data standards, and version control.
• Maintain data integrity across scheduling, cost, progress, manpower, procurement, and change control.
• Collaborate with construction, engineering, procurement, project management, and other stakeholders to maintain alignment across project controls functions.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Finance, Business, or a related field preferred.
• 8+ years of project controls experience supporting large-scale construction and/or industrial projects.
• Demonstrated experience integrating project scheduling and cost controls within complex project environments.
• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with earned value management, resource loading, manpower forecasting, progress measurement, cost forecasting, and change analysis.
• Strong knowledge of critical path analysis, schedule recovery, risk management, trend analysis, and project performance reporting.
• Ability to analyze complex project data and communicate findings effectively to project and executive leadership.
• Strong organizational, analytical, communication, and executive reporting skills.
• Experience supporting integrated scheduling, cost, risk, delay, forecasting, and performance reporting processes.
• Experience with Power BI and Procore desirable.
• AACE PSP, AACE CCP, PMI-SP, PMP, or an equivalent professional certification preferred.
• Ability to work in a project-based environment supporting a large, multi-building construction program.
• Willingness to work extended hours, early starts, weekends, or schedule-recovery coverage as project requirements dictate.
• Ability to access active construction areas and comply with applicable site access, PPE, safety, security, and training requirements.

Physical Requirements

The position requires the ability to perform standard office-based and project-site activities, including sitting, standing, walking, communicating in person and by telephone, and operating standard office equipment. Occasional bending, kneeling, crouching, or crawling may be required. The ability to lift or move up to 25 pounds occasionally is also required.

About Teal Energi

Teal Energi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, Teal Energi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors, including traditional energy, energy transition initiatives such as LNG, hydrogen, wind, and solar, as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

Teal Energi is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.