Strategic Project Controls Manager – Construction

Titan Electric Companies; Itasca (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Titan Electric is seeking a Project Controls Manager to lead forecasting, scheduling, risk management, and financial controls across multiple offices. You will own CTC/CAC forecasting, budgets, and vendor spend while partnering with operations, finance, and field leadership to protect margins.

You will build dashboards, drive tool adoption, and develop a scalable project controls function that delivers accurate data, actionable insights, and reliable performance across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Finance, Project Management, or a related field
• 7+ years of progressive project controls or project management experience
• Leadership experience managing people, processes, or both
• Commercial construction experience
• Direct experience within electrical contracting or MEP construction environments

Responsibilities

• Reviewing project budgets, cost coding, and forecasting practices
• Driving accurate Cost-To-Complete (CTC) and Cost-At-Completion (CAC) forecasting
• Analyzing labor productivity, equipment costs, purchasing performance, and subcontractor spend
• Identifying margin risk before it becomes margin loss
• Challenging assumptions and improving forecast accuracy
• Helping leaders make informed financial decisions
• Establish scheduling discipline across the organization
• Develop baseline, recovery, and as-built schedules
• Establish company scheduling standards
• Evaluate critical path risk and schedule impacts
• Assist teams with delay analysis and claims support
• Improve consistency in schedule reporting
• Ensure progress updates reflect actual field conditions
• Be the business owner for project management platforms and workflows
• Drive adoption of project management tools
• Partner with Operations and IT on system improvements
• Create training programs and implementation plans
• Measure adoption across locations
• Reduce rework caused by inconsistent workflows
• Help field and project teams maximize technology investments
• Identify problems before they become emergencies
• Work with Operations, Project Managers, Superintendents, Estimators, Finance Leaders, and Executive Leadership
• Identify Schedule risk, Labor risk, Procurement risk, Staffing risk, Financial risk, Execution risk
• Help leadership understand what could go wrong—and what needs to happen next
• Build executive dashboards and track portfolio performance
• Produce KPI and trend analysis
• Monitor cash flow and margin exposure
• Support preconstruction and bid strategy efforts
• Develop reporting structures leadership uses
• Hire and develop future team members
• Coach project teams
• Establish standards
• Create accountability
• Drive continuous improvement

Skills

Leadership experience

EVM expertise

Electrical contracting experience

Labor productivity analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management/Engineering/Business/Finance/PM

Tools

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Procore

Vista

Spectrum

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Accubid

Microsoft 365

Advanced Excel

Job description

Titan Electric is seeking a Project Controls Manager to lead forecasting, scheduling, risk management, and financial controls across multiple offices. You will own CTC/CAC forecasting, budgets, and vendor spend while partnering with operations, finance, and field leadership to protect margins.

You will build dashboards, drive tool adoption, and develop a scalable project controls function that delivers accurate data, actionable insights, and reliable performance across the portfolio.