Project Services Manager

Fortera; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortera’s Capital Projects team seeks a Project Services Manager to lead planning, cost control, forecasting, and information management for large-scale industrial facilities. You’ll build AI-enabled delivery capabilities, connecting project data across systems, and guiding forecasting, risk, and decision-support with stakeholders across engineering, procurement, construction, and startup.

You will drive an integrated controls framework, establish baselines, and deliver clear, actionable project

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, Finance, Information Management, Data/CS, or equivalent.
• 10+ years of relevant experience supporting or leading large-scale capital projects.
• Proven leadership in project-services across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.
• Experience designing, building, deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead Project Services across planning, cost, forecasting, information management, progress, risk, change, and reporting.
• Establish integrated project controls framework with baselines, data governance, and standards.
• Ensure integration of schedule, cost, commitments, cash flow, progress, and risk with baseline.
• Own planning/scheduling, cost control, and information management; set priorities and performance expectations.
• Own project reporting, provide visibility of status, forecasts, issues, risks, decisions, and actions.
• Provide early warning with credible forecasts and recovery plans.
• Own risk, opportunity, and change-control processes with clear accountability.
• Build and deploy AI agents, automated workflows, data integrations, and standards to improve forecasting and reporting while scaling projects.
• Establish data structure and governance for reliable AI-enabled project services.
• Identify and automate high-value project-services activities to shift to exception-based management.
• Support decisions across investment, engineering, procurement, construction, startup, handover, and closeout.
• Maintain clear Project Manager visibility of cost, schedule, commitments, interfaces, and cash needs.

Skills

Project management

Capital projects

Forecasting

Planning

Cost control

Scheduling

AI agents

Data integration

Stakeholder management

Excel

Primavera P6

Power BI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Excel

Power BI

ERP systems

Job description

Fortera is transforming one of the world's largest industries by reinventing how cement is made. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Fortera has developed next-generation cement technology that delivers high performance while reducing CO₂ emissions by up to ~70%. By mineralizing CO₂ and turning it into a productive feedstock, Fortera converts emissions into a valuable building material, creating a more sustainable path for modern construction.

With our commercial ReCarb® plant operating in Redding, California, and a growing global project pipeline, Fortera is moving from first-of-a-kind deployment to scaled commercialization. Our technology is already being used in real-world infrastructure applications, bringing next-generation cement into use today while expanding toward broader adoption.

At Fortera, you’ll work alongside scientists, engineers, operators, and industry experts who are turning cutting-edge materials science into real-world impact. We’re looking for curious thinkers, builders, and problem-solvers who want to help tackle one of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

This is more than a job. It’s an opportunity to help shape the future of sustainable construction.

Build What's Next.

Visit www.forteraglobal.com to learn more.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Capital Projects Team develops, coordinates, and directs the design and construction of processing plants utilizing Fortera's proprietary technologies, typically located at existing cement or lime facilities. We internally drive projects to successful completion while engaging engineering, purchasing and sourcing equipment, and construction partners to execute large-scale industrial facilities.

We are currently looking for a Project Services Manager to join our team. Reporting functionally to the Project Delivery Manager, this role leads the integrated project-services function across planning and scheduling, cost control, forecasting, information management, progress measurement, risk, change control, and management reporting.

A key expectation of this role is to develop and build out AI-enabled project delivery capabilities. The ideal candidate will be highly proficient in applying AI, automation, and data integration to project execution, including the ability to design, build, and deploy AI agents and workflows that automate routine activities, connect project information across systems, identify emerging risks and trends, improve forecasting, accelerate reporting, and provide actionable recommendations to support the project team and leadership in decision making.

The successful candidate will combine strong capital-project controls experience with advanced digital capability, transforming complex project data into reliable forecasts, early warning, clear management action, and an increasingly automated and scalable project-services operating model.

Travel: Up to 25% travel is required.

READY TO BUILD WHAT'S NEXT?

Do you want to turn ambitious ideas into reality as part of a team that designs, buys, builds, tests, and runs its own facilities?

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve, challenges change, and you are willing to adapt, step into gaps, solve problems, and do what is needed to help the team deliver?

Do you take ownership, contribute to decisions, act with urgency, and stay accountable through to the outcome?

Do you believe in building collective strength through collaboration, sharing knowledge, supporting others, and putting the success of the team ahead of individual boundaries?

Are you motivated to work at the forefront of innovation, push what is possible, bring ideas to life, and use technology, AI, and continuous improvement to deliver better performance and results?

If this sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead Project Services across planning, cost, forecasting, information management, progress, risk, change, and reporting.
• Establish and maintain the integrated project controls framework, including common structures, baselines, reporting cycles, data governance, and control standards.
• Assure schedule, cost, commitments, cash flow, progress, risk, change, procurement, completions, and information are integrated and aligned to the approved project baseline.
• Lead Planning / Scheduling, Cost Control, and Project Information Management, setting priorities, standards, and performance expectations.
• Own project reporting and provide clear visibility of current status, forecast outcomes, critical issues, emerging risks, required decisions, and corrective actions.
• Provide early warning by challenging incomplete, inconsistent, or unsupported forecasts and requiring accountable recovery plans.
• Own integrated risk, opportunity, and change-control processes while maintaining clear approval and accountability boundaries.
• Build and deploy reusable AI agents, automated workflows, data integrations, and digital standards that improve forecasting, reporting, risk identification, information retrieval, and decision support while increasing scalability, consistency, and execution efficiency across Fortera projects.
• Establish the data structure and governance required for reliable AI-enabled project services, including source traceability, validation, access control, and human review.
• Identify and automate high-value project-services activities, reducing manual effort and shifting the organization toward exception-based management.
• Support investment, engineering, procurement, construction, completions/ commissioning, startup, handover, and closeout decisions with verified project information.
• Maintain clear Project Manager visibility of cost, schedule, commitments, critical interfaces, cash requirements, information constraints, and project exposure.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

SUCCESS IN THE ROLE:

Success means the Project Manager and functional leaders operate from one trusted view of scope, schedule, cost, cash, progress, risk, change, and information status. Forecasts are credible, emerging impacts are identified early, and decisions are supported by verified data.

The successful candidate is flexible and adaptive to the needs of the team, stepping into gaps, adjusting priorities, and improving how project information is integrated and used. Corrective actions are identified and assigned early, before cost or schedule pressures become embedded, while technology, automation, and AI are applied where they improve visibility, efficiency, and decision-making.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, Finance, Information Management, Data/Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 10+ years of relevant experience supporting or leading large-scale capital projects.
• Proven project-services or project-controls leadership experience across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and orchestrating AI agents and multi-agent workflows, with strong technical understanding of agent architecture, system integration, data connectivity, validation, traceability, access controls, and human-in-the-loop governance.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI and automation to improve data integration, analysis, forecasting, reporting, information retrieval, workflow efficiency, or decision support.
• Strong command of planning, cost control, forecasting, progress measurement, risk, change, information management, and executive reporting.
• Strong working knowledge of critical-path scheduling, project baselines, commitments, accruals, Estimate at Completion, cash flow, contingency, earned value, and change control.
• Advanced capability with Primavera P6, Excel, Power BI, ERP systems, document-management, completions, and related project platforms.
• Proven ability to analyze complex and conflicting information, challenge assumptions, and develop credible forward-looking forecasts.
• Strong analytical, commercial, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Flexible and adaptive working style, with a demonstrated ability to shift priorities, learn quickly, work across functions, and contribute beyond traditional role boundaries when needed.
• Experience with owner-led, EPC, EPCM, or multi-contract industrial delivery models preferred.

Fortera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law. Diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.