Senior Project Controls Manager, Construction Planning

Teal Energi; Waco (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Teal Energi seeks an experienced Project Controls professional to lead planning, forecasting, and reporting for a major construction program with multiple facilities. The role combines scheduling, cost control, resource planning, and analytics to guide execution from construction through turnover.

You will develop integrated schedules, monitor performance, and provide dashboards and status updates to leadership, ensuring data integrity and timely communication across engineering, procurement,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related discipline preferred.
• Minimum eight years of experience supporting large-scale construction, industrial, infrastructure, or energy projects.
• Demonstrated experience integrating project scheduling and cost controls.
• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong background in forecasting, resource planning, earned value techniques, performance measurement, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize integrated project schedules covering all phases of execution.
• Coordinate activities across engineering, procurement, construction, inspections, startup, and project handover.
• Establish short-term and long-term planning strategies, including look-ahead schedules and recovery plans.
• Monitor schedule performance and identify impacts to completion milestones.
• Track project budgets, commitments, expenditures, forecasting, and cash flow.
• Maintain project controls systems used for cost tracking, change management, and performance reporting.
• Review forecast trends and provide analysis supporting management decision-making.
• Monitor contingency utilization and cost variance against budgets.
• Develop executive-level reports, dashboards, progress curves, workforce metrics, and performance indicators.
• Consolidate project data and transform it into meaningful status updates for stakeholders.
• Provide regular reporting on schedule health, productivity, risk exposure, and forecast outcomes.
• Support project reviews through clear and accurate performance analysis.
• Evaluate schedule risks, delays, constraints, and emerging trends.
• Conduct critical path evaluations and develop recovery recommendations when needed.
• Support schedule impact assessments and documentation associated with change events.
• Facilitate project risk reviews and ensure mitigation actions are tracked to closure.
• Establish project reporting standards, coding structures, calendars, and data management practices.
• Ensure consistency and integrity of project controls data across all reporting platforms.
• Maintain version control and governance processes for project controls deliverables.
• Work closely with field teams to validate progress against installed quantities, labor performance, procurement status, and approved scope changes.

Skills

Primavera P6

Excel

Forecasting

Resource planning

Earned value

Change management

Performance measurement

Scheduling

Cost controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline

Tools

Power BI

Procore

PM software

Job description

Teal Energi seeks an experienced Project Controls professional to lead planning, forecasting, and reporting for a major construction program with multiple facilities. The role combines scheduling, cost control, resource planning, and analytics to guide execution from construction through turnover.

You will develop integrated schedules, monitor performance, and provide dashboards and status updates to leadership, ensuring data integrity and timely communication across engineering, procurement,