Vice President, Project Controls

WSP; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 231,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

WSP seeks a Vice President, Project Controls Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area, hybrid work (4 days onsite, 1 day remote) at the Santa Clara client site. You will lead program-wide controls, establish dashboards, and ensure cost/schedule integrity across mega projects.

Responsibilities include integrating cost, schedule, risk, and reporting, delivering executive reports, and guiding client interfaces and business development efforts. An engineering or PM background is essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of project controls experience on mega projects.
• Transit/rail project experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of cost estimating, cost control, and scheduling.
• Interface with clients and support business development initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and improvement of project controls processes and governance.
• Integrate cost, schedule, risk, and reporting disciplines for program objectives.
• Provide dashboards and real-time KPI insights and variance analysis.
• Oversee cost control across all projects and forecasting.
• Prepare and present cost/schedule performance reports to leadership.

Skills

Cost estimating

Cost control

Schedule management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

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

• 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