Project Controls Manager

About the job: 
Kent is looking for a Project Controls Manager to lead the integrated project controls function for a construction project. The role establishes and manages the controls framework across the procurement, construction, commissioning, and project closeout, ensuring performance is effectively measured, forecast, and communicated to the Owner and project leadership team.  The Project Controls Manager is a key advisor to the Project Manager and the Owner’s leadership team, providing an integrated view of cost, schedule, progress, change, risk, productivity, and forecast performance.  The role establishes the systems, processes, governance, and reporting needed to apply project controls consistently, identify emerging issues early, and enable timely management intervention.
 

Skills and Responsibilities:  
Responsibilities:
 

Project Controls Management and Governance
• Lead the Project Controls organization and provide functional leadership across cost, planning and scheduling, progress measurement, change management, risk, and reporting; mentor and develop a multidisciplinary team.
• Develop and implement the Project Controls Plan in alignment with the Project Execution Plan and Owner requirements; establish procedures, standards, reporting requirements, and governance processes.
• Develop the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS), control accounts, cost codes, and schedule coding requirements.
• Ensure consistent application of controls across project phases and contractors, promoting early identification of trends, risks, and opportunities.
 

Cost Management and Forecasting
• Establish and maintain the control budget and approved project baseline; manage commitments, actual costs, accruals, trends, approved and pending changes, contingency, and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Lead monthly cost forecasting, challenge project and contractor assumptions, and identify potential overruns and savings opportunities against approved budgets.
• Ensure forecasts reflect current conditions, remaining scope, productivity, schedule, commitments, and risk exposure; maintain cost trending and forecast reports.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Contracts, Construction, and Finance to validate the accuracy and completeness of cost information; review contractor cost reports, forecasts, change orders, claims, and commercial exposure.
 

Planning and Scheduling
• Lead development and maintenance of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), integrating contractor schedules and maintaining the appropriate Level 1 through Level 4 or 5 schedule hierarchy. • Monitor critical and near-critical paths, float, milestones, constraints, interfaces, and forecast completion dates. • Lead schedule development, baseline reviews, monthly updates, quality assessments, and recovery planning. • Evaluate schedule impacts arising from changes, engineering delays, procurement issues, construction productivity, and other project events; identify trends early and develop mitigation and recovery strategies.