Senior Project Controls Manager — Power Infrastructure

MaineGuide; Portland, Northern (ME, KY); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical

dental

vision

short and long‑term disability

life insurance

employee assistance program

paid time away

parental leave

paid holidays

retirement savings plan with employer

employee referral bonus

tuition reimbursement

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Project Controls Manager in Portland, ME to join our team. This role focuses on planning, monitoring, and controlling scope, schedule, cost, risk, and change across industrial facilities, pipelines, substations, renewables, and power projects.

You will collaborate with program managers, delivery teams, and clients to implement practical controls and deliver actionable insight. The role may oversee a team of project controls specialists and requires strong leadership and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 15+ years in project controls on engineering and construction projects.
• Or 5 years leading and managing teams with equivalent experience.
• Ability to manage proposal prep, contract review, client relations, and win strategy for large Projects.
• Knowledge of delivery models: design-bid-build, design-build, EPC/EPCM.
• Advanced schedule development and integrated master schedules.
• Experience with PMIS, document control, dashboards, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provide project-facing technical leadership for project controls across schedules, costs, risks, change, document control, PMIS, reporting, and forensic support functions.
• Develop and implement project controls plans, processes, procedures, reporting calendars, and governance requirements.
• Provide direction, mentoring, and quality review for project controls and document control specialists.
• Lead proposal, startup, and transition activities with scope, staffing needs, and client relationship management.
• Lead integrated schedule development across HDR, client, contractor, design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and third-party interfaces.
• Review contractor baseline and updates for logic, critical path, progress, and recovery.
• Lead schedule risk, delay, time impact, and forensic analyses for recovery and decisions.
• Facilitate multi-stakeholder planning workshops and readiness reviews.
• Establish cost management processes, budgeting, forecasting, and monthly reporting.
• Support change management and integration of changes into cost, schedule, risk, and documentation.
• Coordinate project controls interfaces with owners, permitting, real estate, engineering, procurement, and construction.
• Improve PMIS/dashboards data workflows and reporting.
• Translate project controls data into clear project-facing reports and briefings.
• Mentor and develop project controls personnel.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Skills

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Power BI

Power Platforms

PMIS

Scheduling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Deltek Acumen Fuse

Schedule Validator

TILOS

Synchro

Primavera Risk Analysis

Job description

HDR is seeking a Project Controls Manager in Portland, ME to join our team. This role focuses on planning, monitoring, and controlling scope, schedule, cost, risk, and change across industrial facilities, pipelines, substations, renewables, and power projects.

You will collaborate with program managers, delivery teams, and clients to implement practical controls and deliver actionable insight. The role may oversee a team of project controls specialists and requires strong leadership and