Vice President, Project Controls

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 231,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible workplace model

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

WSP is seeking a Vice President, Project Controls Manager to join the Project Controls team in the San Francisco Bay Area. This hybrid role (4 days onsite, 1 day remote) is based at our client’s office in Santa Clara, with responsibility for program-wide project controls governance, cost/schedule management, EVM, and strategic reporting.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop dashboards, and drive cost optimization Opportunities across mega-transit projects, reporting to senior leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management or related field (or equivalent).
• 12 years of combined field and office project controls experience on large-scale mega projects, especially transit/rail.
• Extensive knowledge of cost estimating methodologies, cost control techniques, and schedule management best practices.
• Ability to interface with clients and participate in business development initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills, written, oral and interpersonal skills for a high-pressure environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of program-wide project controls processes, procedures, governance frameworks, and systems.
• Ensure integration of cost, schedule, risk, and reporting disciplines to support program objectives.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all project controls matters and report to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Oversee enterprise-level dashboards to monitor program health and KPI trends.
• Establish and enforce robust cost control procedures across all projects and program elements.
• Collaborate with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to evaluate design and execution options.
• Integrate cost and schedule management practices including EVM and predictive analytics.
• Provide clear reports and presentations on cost and schedule performance.
• Contribute to project and program risk, change control, and strategic planning meetings.
• Lead development and maintenance of comprehensive financial reporting across work packages and subprojects.
• Monitor funding allocations and procurement plans for alignment with budgets.
• Manage change control processes and mitigation strategies.
• Oversee estimates, budgets, forecasts, and ETC with alignment to funding profiles.

Skills

Project controls leadership

Cost & schedule management

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/Construction Management

Job description

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Vice President, Project Controls Manager to join our Project Controls team inSan Francisco Bay area. This will be a hybrid position (4 days onsite, 1 day remote) at our client’s office in Santa Clara.

Your Impact

Job Duties:

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of program-wide project controls processes, procedures, governance frameworks, and systems in collaboration with the client and PM.
• Ensure effective integration of cost, schedule, risk, and reporting disciplines to support program objectives.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all project controls matters, aligning closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure consistency and transparency in reporting and controls.
• Oversee enterprise-level dashboards to monitor program health and provide real-time insights into key performance indicators (KPIs), risk exposure, trends, and variances.
• Establish and enforce robust cost control procedures across all projects and program elements, enabling proactive tracking of budgets, forecasting, variance analysis, and identification of cost optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to evaluate design and execution options, providing strategic recommendations to improve cost-effectiveness and value delivery.
• Integrate cost and schedule management practices, ensuring accurate earned value management (EVM), performance measurement, and predictive analytics across the program lifecycle.
• Provide clear, timely, and actionable reports and presentations on cost and schedule performance to senior leadership, stakeholders, and the client, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Contribute to project and program-level meetings focused on risk, change control, performance, and strategic planning, ensuring alignment with controls best practices.
• Lead the development and maintenance of comprehensive financial reporting across all work packages and subprojects, including roll-up reports, cash flow analysis, and funding status.
• Monitor funding allocations and procurement plans to ensure alignment with approved budgets and program funding strategies.
• Manage the program’s change control processes, including assessment of cost and schedule impacts of proposed changes, and provide guidance on mitigation strategies.
• Oversee the preparation and validation of program estimates, budgets, forecasts, cost trends, and estimates to complete (ETC), ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and funding profiles.

Who You Are

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or related field (or equivalent)
• 12 years of combined field and office project controls experience involving large-scale mega projects, especially with transit/rail background
• Extensive knowledge of cost estimating methodologies, cost control techniques, and schedule management best practices.
• Ability to interface with clients and participate in business development initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills, written, oral and interpersonal skills to deal with a high-pressure environment.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:

Expected Salary (all locations): $230,800-290,180/year

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law. #LI-MP1

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges.

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

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