Project Controls Manager - Gas Power Generation

blattner; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Blattner is expanding its energy construction leadership into gas power generation, building a new business with a focus on end-to-end hybrid energy solutions. This role provides leadership of project controls on projects, standardizing processes and tools, and mentoring a team of controls professionals across business units.

The successful candidate will develop CPM schedules, conduct risk analyses, manage cost forecasts and dashboards, and collaborate with Estimating, Engineering, Supply

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in construction project controls (scheduling, cost, risk).
• Experience leading senior contributors and managing remote/in-office teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversees project controls teams and third-party consultants.
• Develops and analyzes CPM schedules and risk analyses.
• Manages schedules, cost forecasts, risk registers, dashboards, and reports.
• Provides concise, actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Ensures contractual obligations and SOPs are met; guides change management.

Skills

Leadership

Project controls

Scheduling

Cost analysis

Risk analysis

Mentorship

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management

Job description

Blattner is expanding our energy construction leadership into gas power generation. This is a unique opportunity to help build this new business from the ground up, backed by a company with decades of proven success in the energy sector. This position will help us shape the processes and standards that carry this business forward to deliver end-to-end hybrid energy solutions.

Provides leadership of project controls personnel assigned to a project management team. Ensures all Blattner project controls processes and deliverables are efficiently executed and delivered to the project team. Is a subject matter expert in the analysis of project data and provides recommendations for improvements to processes to Director - Project Controls and project management teams ensuring controls remain standardized and consistent across all business units. Leads cross-business-unit modernization of tools, data, and processes to improve predictability, profitability, and decision velocity.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

• Oversees assigned project controls teams and third-party consultants; provides performance evaluation, time approval, recruitment, and mentorship.
• Develops, controls, and analyzes Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules; conducts schedule risk analysis; manages risk and management of change.
• Manages workload to ensure timely delivery of schedules, cost forecasts, risk registers and analyses, dashboards, S-curves, and histograms.
• Conducts strategic analysis of project data to drive decisions; provides concise, actionable recommendations to project teams.
• Ensures project controls contractual obligations to clients are met; advises project management on contract evaluation and change management.
• Identifies project controls deliverables of internal and external partners; ensures contractual obligations are prepared and delivered as required.
• Ensures adherence to project controls policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs); ensures new Schedulers complete required training on policies, procedures, tools, and systems.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to align and improve processes and systems; assists with methods to measure project controls competencies and schedule effectiveness.
• Supports Project Controls leadership with communication plans and organizational updates to Operations and stakeholder departments.
• Owns the enterprise Project Controls Governance Framework: sets companywide standards for baselines, progress measurement (including EVM), forecasting cadence, and risk/contingency policies.
• Ensures disciplined forecasting, cost management, and schedule integrity within the portfolio, enabling the accurate deliver of 3-12 month forecasts, consolidated executive reporting, and informed margin-and cash-flow-protecting mitigation plans.
• Pre-award involvement: partners with Estimating and Engineering to develop pursuit schedules, execution strategies, and probabilistic risk/contingency recommendations for mega-projects; participates in executive bid reviews.
• Baseline & contingency authority: chairs baseline and re-baseline reviews; approves contingency drawdown rules; ensures alignment between commercial terms and controls processes.
• Advanced risk analytics: institutionalizes Monte Carlo/quantitative risk analysis for schedule and cost; translates outputs into management reserves and scenario plans.
• Digital & data transformation: owns selection, implementation, and adoption of project controls tools and data pipelines (scheduling, cost, risk, BI); standardizes dashboards and KPIs across the enterprise.
• Cross-functional leadership: leads governance forums with Operations, Estimating, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and PMO; resolves systemic schedule and cost risk issues.
• Financial impact: connects controls metrics to financial outcomes (CPI/SPI, forecast accuracy, contingency utilization); recommends actions to protect margin and cash; escalates critical variances to executives.
• Continuous improvement: executes enterprise initiatives to reduce change cycle time, improve forecast accuracy, and increase schedule adherence across business units.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• A Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Industrial Engineering Management, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field; or equivalent education or relevant experience required.
• Five or more years progressive experience in a construction project controls discipline including project scheduling, project cost, or project risk analysis or a combination of these experiences. Previous experience leading senior level individual contributors required.
• Adept in team building and managing remote and in-office employees providing purpose, direction, and motivation to achieve team objectives and goals.
• Experience professionally developing employees preparing them for growth opportunities and career advancements.
• Sets the example of living Blattner's values and adhering to the Blattner Basics. Recognizes employees in a meaningful way who live the Blattner