Project Controls Manager

Manager, Project Controls

 

Location: Work-from-home with travel/mobilization to project site in Bat Canyon, Arizona.

 

Summary:

The Manager Project Controls is responsible for leading and overseeing all project controls functions on large, multidisciplinary, high-risk capital engineering and construction projects from FEED through operations. This position serves as a hands-on leader within the owner's project team, providing expertise in planning and scheduling, cost estimating, progress measurement, risk management, forecasting, and project reporting. The successful candidate will drive project controls excellence, implement best practices, mentor project controls personnel, and provide strategic guidance to project and corporate management teams.

 

Job Duties:

Project Controls Leadership

• Lead and manage project controls functional areas for major capital engineering and construction projects.
• Establish and maintain project controls policies, procedures, and operating practices to mitigate project risks.
• Provide guidance, consultation, and support to project managers and corporate leadership.
• Mentor, develop, and lead project controls personnel while ensuring appropriate staffing levels.
• Conduct performance reviews and address staffing and personnel-related matters.

Cost, Schedule & Progress Management

• Manage project planning, scheduling, cost estimating, forecasting, and monitoring activities.
• Establish and oversee project baseline processes for cost, schedule, and progress measurement.
• Develop and maintain project schedule development, review, and update processes to ensure alignment with the master schedule.
• Ensure accurate measurement and reporting of project progress in accordance with established rules of credit.
• Develop progress measurement processes across applicable scopes of work.

Risk & Change Management

• Identify, evaluate, and resolve complex project controls issues and project challenges.
• Analyze project controls data to ensure accuracy and identify concerns, trends, and potential mitigation strategies.
• Establish risk management protocols including risk identification, documentation, mitigation, and tracking.
• Assess and communicate potential cost, schedule, and progress impacts associated with project risks.
• Manage project change management processes and recommend corrective actions when necessary.
• Identify and communicate design changes, scope changes, schedule impacts, and mitigation opportunities.

Reporting & Stakeholder Coordination

• Collaborate closely with project management and corporate leadership teams.
• Participate in project meetings and prepare reports, analyses, presentations, and project updates.
• Ensure all required project reports are prepared and submitted according to approved reporting schedules.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, contracts, and construction teams to support project objectives.
• Promote adherence to project safety requirements, quality standards, and established processes.

Process Improvement & Compliance

• Oversee implementation of project controls systems in accordance with Client standards and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with project stage-gate processes and industry best practices.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives within project controls functions.

 

Job Requirements:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field and twelve (12) years of experience in project management, including at least eight (8) years in a project controls leadership role; or
• High school diploma or GED with sixteen (16) years of experience in engineering, construction, project controls, or a related business field, including at least eight (8) years in a project controls leadership role.

Technical Knowledge & Skills

• Demonstrated expertise in project planning, scheduling, cost estimating, forecasting, monitoring, and reporting.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate project controls information and identify risks, trends, and corrective actions.
• Experience with cost control, project estimating, forecasting, cost management, and reporting.
• Understanding of accounting functions and systems.
• Strong knowledge of Primavera scheduling software and capital project planning best practices.
• Experience with ERP systems, estimating software, SAP, and EcoSys preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Leadership & Professional Skills

• Proven leadership and management capabilities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate across various project functions.
• Strong decision-making abilities with minimal supervision.

Industry Experience

• Experience in construction environments with awareness of occupational hazards and safety requirements.
• Experience supporting large capital engineering and construction projects.
• Mining construction project experience preferred.

 

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

 

About Teal Energi:

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.