Senior Project Controls Manager, Heavy Civil Infrastructure

Careerwebsite; Sacramento, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Careerwebsite in Sacramento seeks a senior Project Controls Manager to lead cost and schedule integration for large heavy civil projects, delivered through traditional and alternative methods. You will defend numbers with contractors and leadership, and oversee baselines, change control, and risk management across multi‑billion-dollar programs.

The role requires directing controls teams, coordinating across disciplines, and ensuring data integrity for reporting and audits in a fast-paced

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.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the program's integrated controls system, including the work breakdown and cost breakdown structures, coding standards, and baseline change procedures, so cost and schedule data reconcile to the same source.
• Review and validate contractor cost and schedule submittals, including baseline schedules, monthly updates, progress payments, and contingency drawdown requests, against contract requirements and verified field progress.
• Analyze earned value, cost and schedule performance indices, and productivity trends, and surface the variances that will move the forecast before they show up in a monthly report.
• Evaluate change proposals, delay claims, and time impact analyses for cost and schedule merit, and recommend a position to program leadership.
• Oversee the program forecast, cash flow projection, and contingency and reserve position, and test the assumptions behind each of them.
• Coordinate the risk register with the cost and schedule baselines so quantified exposure carries into the forecast and into contingency decisions.
• May lead the monthly controls cycle, presenting cost and schedule status, trends, and recommended corrective action to program leadership.
• Coordinate controls across adjacent contracts and program interfaces so impacts that cross package boundaries are captured before they land in a claim.
• Coordinate that work across roadway and structures packages, systems and trackwork contracts, airfield phasing, and water and utility relocation work.
• Coordinate across estimating, scheduling, engineering, contracts, document control, and finance so one set of numbers supports program decisions.
• Oversee the controls data in the programs management information systems and verify that cost, schedule, and change records are complete, correctly coded, and traceable for funding agency reporting and external audit.
• May lead and mentor controls analysts and specialists, setting expectations for analysis quality, turnaround, and how findings get escalated.

Skills

Communication

Multi-tasking

Collaboration

Problem solving

Presentation

Education

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

Job description

Careerwebsite in Sacramento seeks a senior Project Controls Manager to lead cost and schedule integration for large heavy civil projects, delivered through traditional and alternative methods. You will defend numbers with contractors and leadership, and oversee baselines, change control, and risk management across multi‑billion-dollar programs.

The role requires directing controls teams, coordinating across disciplines, and ensuring data integrity for reporting and audits in a fast-paced