Project Controls Specialist

About Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back. Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America — recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain. On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house. The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it.

Position Summary

The Lead Project Controls Specialist serves as a project controls lead for Redwood’s EPC capital projects, owning the integrated cost and schedule baseline and the performance reporting that leadership relies on to make decisions. This role develops and tracks project KPIs, administers earned value management, and leads cost control, budget tracking, forecasting, and change management across engineering, procurement, and construction phases. The successful candidate will set project controls standards and procedures, provide technical direction and mentorship to schedulers, and act as the primary controls interface with EPC contractors, project management, and Finance.

Responsibilities/Essential Duties will Include:

• Lead the project controls function for assigned capital projects, setting the standards, procedures, and reporting cadence used across cost, schedule, estimating, and change management.

• Develop, structure, and maintain the project work breakdown structure (WBS), along with the supporting cost breakdown structure (CBS) and organizational breakdown structure (OBS), so that scope, schedule activities, estimates, commitments, and actual costs all map to a single coding framework and roll up cleanly at any level of the project.

• Develop, baseline, and maintain the project KPI set — including CPI, SPI, productivity factors, commodity installation curves, safety and quality leading indicators, and milestone adherence — and track performance against targets throughout the project lifecycle.

• Own earned value management for the project: establish control accounts and work packages against the WBS, define rules of credit and progress measurement methods, and calculate and analyze BCWS, BCWP, ACWP, CV, SV, EAC, ETC, and TCPI.