Project Controls Manager - Midwest U.S.

Jacobs; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Project Controls Manager in the Midwest to lead a team delivering budget, scheduling, cost control, and forecasting for a major program. The role involves coordinating with operations, project managers, and client leadership to keep programs on track while traveling as needed.

You'll develop and maintain Primavera P6 schedules, manage change, and provide clear, actionable reports. The position requires extensive project controls experience, strong communication, and talent

Qualifications

• Fifteen years of progressive project controls experience on large projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Project Management, Construction Management, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in cost engineering: estimating, cost control, change management, risk, and variance analysis.
• Experience with Primavera P6 scheduling projects, programs, and portfolios.
• Ability to develop and implement standard project controls procedures.
• Ability to develop and evaluate major program cost estimates and budgets.
• Experience building Primavera P6 cost-loaded and resource-loaded schedules.
• Ability to present clear management-level presentations.

Responsibilities

• Point of contact for Operations, Project Managers, Project Director, and client for project controls.
• Ensure alignment between design, construction, and program needs.
• Attend and support status review meetings.
• Maintain project budget integrity with approved scope changes.
• Support estimate development.
• Develop and maintain resource-loaded P6 master schedule.
• Monitor and report on progress, cost, and schedule variances.

Skills

Leadership

Team Building

Communication

Mentoring

Travel

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

At Jacobs, our Project Controls team works seamlessly with clients by delivering projects and programs that achieve our clients’ goals. Our team is looking to add a Project Controls Manager in support of a major Program. What we do is more than construction; we play a part in moving a vision from concept to reality. If you’re interested in a rewarding career working on ENR's #1 Program Management and Construction Management firm, then Jacobs is where you belong.

As a key member of our team, you’ll provide the day-to-day leadership, support, and execution of project controls functions for various projects and programs. You will be responsible for budget/cost control, change management analysis, forecasting, and reporting.

The Project Controls Manager will be responsible for managing a group of project controls professionals and several departments including scheduling, cost controls, cost estimation, IT/Systems, PMIS, reporting, and document controls.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Point of contact for Operations, Project Managers, Project Director and client in all aspects relating to Project Controls Services.
• Ensure alignment between project services, design, and construction teams to support the Program needs.
• Attend and support Operations status review meetings.
• Ensure the integrity of the project budget through approved scope changes.
• Support estimate development.
• Manage the effort to develop and maintain resource loaded P6 program master schedule.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on progress, cost and schedule variances, and forecasts.
• Flag significant projected overruns or underruns.
• Plan and budget the project controls resources and systems necessary to support the project.
• Understand and stay current on business/industry trends and the implications for project controls functions.
• Serve as the focal point for all matters relating to estimating, planning/scheduling, and cost control.
• Create, implement, and execute project controls plan to support contract requirements and the successful execution of project controls.
• Resolve issues and provide consistency between the cost control, planning/scheduling, and estimating functions and deliverables.
• Analyze and evaluate project status and recommend corrective actions.
• Monitor market conditions, pricing, and escalation indexes, and suggest escalation factors for future program works.
• Perform senior project controls manager functions as required.
• Deliver strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels both internally and within the client organization.
• Create strong team building and people management skills and proven ability to acquire and retain talent and to mentor and develop talent.

To be successful in this role, you'll have the ability to travel as requested and work a Hybrid model coming in two days a week at our assigned Jacobs office nearest you. Ideally, you'll be based in the Midwest to travel to our client site as needed, and we may be open to being based in some Western states.

Bring your curiosity, passion for innovation, and talent for multi-tasking in afast-paced environment. We’ll help you grow, pursue and fulfill what inspires you - so we can make big impacts on the world, together.

#LI-HA1

• Fifteen years of progressive project controls experience with increasing responsibility and having worked on a large projects/program.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Project Management, Construction Management, (OR) equivalent relevant work experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience in cost engineering functions, including cost estimating, cost control, change management, risk management, cost analysis and variance analysis.
• Experience with Primavera P6 scheduling projects, programs, and portfolios.
• Ability to develop, implement, and maintain standard program procedures for project controls.
• Ability to develop and evaluate major program cost estimates and extended budget projections to identify and quantify critical budgetary, cost, schedule, technical, and programmatic risk factors
• Experience building and maintaining Primavera P6 cost loaded and resource loaded schedules to support forecasting and multi-year planning.
• Ability to present clear and concise presentations to Jacobs and Client management.

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