Chief Project Controls Manager

Job Description

Overview 

We are seeking a Chief Project Controls Manager to join our team in Houston, TX.

Working within our Energy group the Chief Project Controls Manager will support core areas such as cost, planning, risk management, compliance, or performance analysis. This position will support the corporate PMO, supporting and improving oversight of multiple energy projects for industry leading clients. As part of a larger corporate PMO, this role is integral to ensure project success by providing specialized guidance and oversight, driving project performance, and fostering a culture of accountability. The Chief Project Controls Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and external stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment, mitigate risks, and support delivery on key project objectives.

Your role 

• Oversees the direction of a project controls team or function within a group, office or region.

• Develops and implements the project controls business development plans and activities.

• Assigns and manages project staffing levels and workforce plans.

• Manages staff co-ordination and workload and directly supervises project controls team.

• Manages, revises, and maintains status of the detailed project cost estimate/forecast to include all phases of project execution from design/engineering, material/equipment procurement and deliveries, construction contracts through start-up activities and closeout.

• Tracks and analyzes the project costs including budgets, commitments, actuals, accruals, and forecasts. Analysis includes forecast to budget and estimate, forecast to actuals, and contingency analysis.

• Participates in the development and improvement of project controls systems.

• Recommends improvements in systems, tools, and methods of project controls and project management.

• Establishes a project work breakdown structure in line with industry best practices.

• Assists in analyzing project control requirements as part of the bid review process to ensure all cost control requirements are incorporated into individual contracts and purchase orders.

• Interacts with other project groups in relation to cost codes, purchase order commitments, change orders and sales tax issues as required and to ensure all accounting and regulatory compliance issues or guidelines are implemented.

• Assists in creating detailed project budgets from estimates and in the development of cash flow projections.

• Works with senior project management staff in managing the overall project cost control efforts.

• Works with scheduling staff to develop, manage, revise, and update integrated detailed project schedules including all phases of project execution.

• Assists in early identification of long lead items, resource constraints, and required project start dates.

• Manages key project indicators and project commercial reports.

• Manages internal job costing in relation to the fee and services to be provided, resources required and all project reporting including job number, Project Status Report (PSR) and other company reporting policies.

• Produces forecasts of total project costs, annual costs, and monthly cash flow costs and provides variance analysis and explanations.

• Assists in forecasting engineering and construction resource requirements.

• Assists in coordinating engineering and construction activities in conjunction with overall project schedule requirements. Incorporates engineering and construction contractor schedules into overall project schedules.

• Ensures all contract deliverables and deadlines are met.

• Provides senior level general project management support as necessary (e.g., financial/operational budgeting, consolidation, analysis, forecasting; business development; pricing; billing; key client/consultant relationship management).

• Performs such other duties as the Supervisor may from time to time deem necessary. 

About you 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction, Finance or a related field, or 10 years of relevant experience, or alternatively 10+ years proven experience directly in Project Controls environment.

• Energy or similar industry experience is preferred.

• Certification with AACE, PMI or CMAA is preferred.

• Experience with Ecosys or SAP or similar finance and or cost management software with good understanding of P6 software.

• Knowledge of and experience with stage-gated project execution processes.

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