Senior Project Controls Manager

The Boldt Company (Boldt) is a leading professional construction services firm with customers across the United States and is a subsidiary of The Boldt Group. Founded in 1889, Boldt is a fourth-generation family and employee-owned firm headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin. Boldt is recognized as a pioneer in Lean construction and in the industrialized construction space. Boldt operates 18 offices across the U.S. that serve customers in healthcare, power, industrial, education, automotive and commercial markets.

Who we are: 

Build your career with Boldt. As a member of the Boldt team, you’ll collaborate with some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the construction industry. You’ll have the chance to learn new skills and seek greater responsibilities with a team that builds real value in the world around you. You’ll succeed in a workplace culture that recognizes, respects, and values differences. Boldt’s focus on innovation, collaboration, and employee development provides an opportunity for all our employees to Build Boldly.

How your role fits into Boldt: 

The Senior Project Controls Manager is responsible for leading the application of project controls principles and procedures required for the successful financial and schedule performance of construction projects and the assigned operating group. The Senior Project Controls Manager works closely with other project controls personnel, support teams, project management teams, operating group executives, and corporate leadership to report on, and positively impact, the financial and schedule performance for projects and group operations. Senior Project Controls Manager uses skills and experience to lead subordinates to monitor project budget and schedule performance, prepare projection of potential results based on trending data, analyze deviations from expectations, and find opportunities for improving the outcomes of the project.  

What you get to do: 

• Lead personnel in implementing project controls processes to achieve the financial and schedule objectives.
• Provide leadership and development to any subordinate project controls personnel.
• Examine the contract terms and conditions to identify appropriate measures vital to fulfilling the contract's financial and schedule requirements. Coordinate with project management the implementation of needed project controls.
• Work with various contract types such as lump sum, guaranteed maximum price, and integrated lean project delivery and apply project control measures appropriate for each type of project.
• Develop appropriate work breakdown structures of sub-jobs, cost codes, and categories to effectively manage the project budget, schedule, and production management processes.
• Review the project estimates with the team to understand the scope, work breakdown structure, self-perform areas, subcontracted areas, and general requirements.
• Facilitate uploading of project estimates from the estimating system to the financial management system.
• Confirm estimated and actual billing rates align with contract agreement terms and conditions.
• Perform project and job setup functions in the accounting system; including, job information entry, cost codes and categories assignment, and workflow key players designations.
• Collaborate with the project team to develop the billing Schedule of Values based on customer demands and confirm that project billing format and rates align with project contract requirements.
• Lead development of project-specific plans for successfully implementing appropriate processes and tools vital for achieving project financial and schedule objectives.
• Support creation and maintenance of project production management plan, including master schedule, production strategy, constraint removal, make work-ready, weekly and daily plan, and production tracking.
• Oversee the assembly and analysis of productivity measurements and progress metrics to identify trends, and use expected future performance to forecast likely outcomes, then compare to estimated amounts to understand variances. Communicate findings to project leadership and together pursue opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate compiling earned value reporting by incorporating financial and schedule plan and performance information together in the form of percent earned graphs, labor curves, and cashflow graphs to communicate potential variances from expectations to the project team.
• Lead project teams in financial forecasting efforts to analyze project costs for labor, materials, subcontracts, and general conditions to update the revenue, cost, and profit projection at completion and identify variances with the budget.
• Work with project management to identify deviations from contracted project scope and prepare docu