Senior Project Controls Manager – Heavy Civil (Earned Value)

Luster National, Inc.; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited flexible time off

Paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Disability insurance

Job summary

Luster National, Inc. seeks Project Controls Managers to support large, complex heavy civil infrastructure programs across highways, bridges, transit, aviation, and water projects.

Roles focus on cost, schedule, risk, and change management with an emphasis on defendable forecasts and leadership interactions with contractors and executives. The team will oversee integrated controls, review submittals, perform EVM, and manage baselines and change control for multi-project portfolios.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, finance, or business, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of project controls experience for large (>$500M), complex, heavy-civil infrastructure projects.
• Experience integrating cost and schedule data on a common work breakdown and cost breakdown structure, including baseline management and change control.
• Experience applying earned value methods and critical path schedule analysis to evaluate program performance and forecast outcomes.
• Experience reviewing contractor cost and schedule submittals against contract requirements and verified progress.
• Experience leading or directing project controls staff on a capital program.
• Proficiency with industry standard scheduling and program cost controls software (e.g., Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Oracle Unifier, EcoSys, e-Builder, etc.).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite/Office 365 (e.g., Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Oversee the program’s integrated controls system to ensure cost and schedule data reconcile to the same source.
• Review and validate contractor cost and schedule submittals against contract requirements and progress.
• Analyze earned value, cost and schedule performance indices, and surface variances to move the forecast.
• Evaluate change proposals, delay claims, and time impact analyses for cost and schedule merit.
• Oversee the program forecast, cash flow projection, and contingency and reserve position.
• Coordinate the risk register with baselines and cross-contract interfaces.
• May lead the monthly controls cycle and present status to leadership.
• Coordinate controls across adjacent contracts and program interfaces.
• Oversee controls data in the program MIS and ensure traceability for reporting.
• May lead and mentor controls analysts and set expectations for analysis quality.

Skills

Project controls

Earned value

Cost control

Schedule analysis

Change management

CPM scheduling

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Oracle Unifier

EcoSys

e-Builder

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, finance, or business

Master’s degree in construction management, engineering, finance, or business

Active professional certifications CCP, PSP, EVP (AACE) and/or PMP (PMI)

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Oracle Unifier

EcoSys

e-Builder

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

Luster National, Inc. seeks Project Controls Managers to support large, complex heavy civil infrastructure programs across highways, bridges, transit, aviation, and water projects.

Roles focus on cost, schedule, risk, and change management with an emphasis on defendable forecasts and leadership interactions with contractors and executives. The team will oversee integrated controls, review submittals, perform EVM, and manage baselines and change control for multi-project portfolios.