Senior Project Controls Manager - Infrastructure & Power

HDR, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR, Inc. is seeking a Project Controls Manager to develop and maintain controls practices across projects, ensuring scope, schedule, and budget performance.

The role collaborates with Program and Project Managers to establish controls approaches and may lead a team of controls specialists on large programs. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in project controls for infrastructure, strong knowledge of CPM scheduling, cost control, and PMIS tools such as Primavera P6 and MS Project.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years' experience in project controls on engineering and construction projects.
• Ability to manage proposal preparation, contract review and negotiation, client relationship and win strategy for medium to large EPC Projects.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple long- and short-term tasks simultaneously.
• Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.
• Sponsorship (visa) for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position.

Responsibilities

• Develop project controls processes and procedures for assigned programs/projects to set up a framework to manage scope, budget and schedule.
• Manage and direct a team of project controls specialists and document controls specialists to implement project controls plan for the program.
• Collaborate with corporate project controls director and business group business class lead for consistent project controls approach.
• Work with project manager, accountants and other team leads to develop work breakdown structure and cost breakdown structure.
• Develop, update, and analyze CPM schedules for projects including variance analysis.
• Facilitates multi-stakeholders interactive planning sessions such as schedule workshop.
• Coordinate with teams regarding the interface with owner’s activities, permitting, real estates, engineering, construction and commissioning schedule.
• Review and oversight of contractor's schedules for assigned work scope.
• Recommends schedule work-around and mitigation efforts to the team.
• Develops earned value method and coordinates such system with schedule update.
• Communicates project status to management regularly via formal meeting and report.
• Assist project manager in monthly reporting and meeting.
• Interact with engineering discipline leads & construction managers to understand issues and conflicts impacting schedule.
• Establishes cost control method for the assigned project or program.
• Support Project and Program Managers in preparing and implementing change management procedure.
• Work closely with the PMIS team to recommend technology solutions to manage data and information that the program will receive, generate, analyze, consume and communicate to stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Skills

Project controls

Scheduling

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or closely related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Projects

eBuilder

ProCore

QuickBase

InEight

Kahua

PMWeb

Job description

HDR, Inc. is seeking a Project Controls Manager to develop and maintain controls practices across projects, ensuring scope, schedule, and budget performance.

The role collaborates with Program and Project Managers to establish controls approaches and may lead a team of controls specialists on large programs. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in project controls for infrastructure, strong knowledge of CPM scheduling, cost control, and PMIS tools such as Primavera P6 and MS Project.