Senior Project Controls Lead

hdr; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Project Controls Manager in Charlotte, NC within the Resources Business Group. You will lead a small team of project controls specialists and schedulers, train staff, and ensure strong cost/schedule management across power, industrial, and oil and gas projects.

The role requires 10+ years of project controls experience on engineering/construction projects, with expertise in budgeting, scheduling, and earned value management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 10+ years in project controls on engineering/construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Establish a procedural framework for preparing, reporting and reconciling variances, including developing and/or enhancing reporting procedures and tools.
• Manage and enforce adherence to project controls practices and procedures, including change management and records management.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators and report to project and program staff and client.
• Proactively seek collaboration and cooperation.
• Set up and lead coordination meetings.
• Review project change documentation and ensure compliance with change procedures and contract specifications.
• Establish project schedules, forecast and cost controls procedures.
• Perform other duties as needed.
• Work closely with Project Management to develop and maintain project schedules using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project.
• Establish work breakdown structure (WBS), baseline, status, and monitor project schedules using established performance measurements.
• Develop and maintain summary level schedule reports used to support critical path analysis, near-term deliverable requirements, resource allocations, performance variances, and to support cost/schedule integration.
• Develop schedule version control processes, policies, and procedures.
• Troubleshoot and monitor potential scheduling problems.
• Work closely with Project Management to develop and maintain financial reports using Microsoft Excel.
• Perform financial reporting in financial planning, tracking, analysis, and reporting of projects/programs.
• Establish WBS, baseline, status, and monitor financials through dashboards, oracle EBS systems, and custom Excel templates.
• Work with Project Management to perform Earned Value Management (EVM) analysis, percent complete, and forecasting on projects.
• Perform forensic analysis on project to determine project health and future risk.
• Facilitate and participate in weekly schedule reviews.
• Collaborate with Cost Controls to ensure project schedule and budgets are in-phase.
• Mentor and train other Project Controls Specialists.
• Manage workload of Project Controls team.
• Experienced working knowledge of PMIS/CDE Applications, Data Visualization Tools, and comfortable in emerging technology.

Skills

Project controls

Scheduling

Cost control

Earned Value Management

Forecasting

Leadership

Mentoring

PMIS/CDE

Data Visualization Tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Excel

Oracle EBS

Job description

HDR is seeking a Project Controls Manager in Charlotte, NC within the Resources Business Group. You will lead a small team of project controls specialists and schedulers, train staff, and ensure strong cost/schedule management across power, industrial, and oil and gas projects.

The role requires 10+ years of project controls experience on engineering/construction projects, with expertise in budgeting, scheduling, and earned value management.