Project Controls Manager

Job description / Role

Position Duties / Responsibilities:

- Responsible for insuring that all cost and schedule related functions on the project are performed in accordance with procedures and good practice.
- Provides technical direction, training, day-to-day supervision and coaching to project assigned Project Controls personnel.
- Provide leadership to the planning, scheduling, trending and cost control teams as necessary to meet internal and external customer requirements while adhering to the budget and schedule demands of the project.
- Responsibilities include managing, leading, and providing administrative and technical direction to staff of project controls professionals, interfacing with management, engineering, construction, contracts, and procurement, and driving innovative solutions to cost engineering and planning/scheduling problems with the intent to help execute the project efficiently and effectively.
- Provide timely and accurate analysis and reporting to the Project Director/Manager. Provide quality support to project and corporate management with organizational and administrative activities, including non-routine cost engineering/planning and scheduling guidance analysis, and presentations.
- Assist in commercial operations and prime contract administration, and interface with customers.
- Meet with and make presentations to client personnel.
- Interface with Project Controls functional department for reporting oversight and consistent application of procedures.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

- 25 years of experience
- 20 years of experience in the project controls field.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, MS Word, and Primavera scheduling concepts.
- Capability and flexibility to handle multiple tasks in restricted timeframes to support project goals.
- 5 years of supervisory experience and skills in applying team building leadership.
- A thorough understanding of Prime Contract formation and execution.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Prior demonstrated capability to present information and analysis to senior management.
- Must be able to work overtime and adapt to changing work schedules.

JOB KNOWLEDGE

- Experience and demonstrated skill in directing cost engineering functions, including cost estimating, cost control, and cost analysis, in the field and the home office. Experience and demonstrated skill in directing, planning, and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and home office.
- Experience and demonstrated skill in establishing criteria for Project Controls activities.
- Skilled in direction, personnel administration, and training of technical and nontechnical personnel.
- Skilled in oral and written communication, with demonstrated ability to present Project Controls information to management/client.
- Demonstrated skill in identifying, analyzing, and solving problems.
- Advanced level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes.
- Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
- Knowledge of current industry and technical developments.
- Demonstrated expertise in delivery, communication, and training of risk processes and procedures.

About the Company

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact.

We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Oil, Gas & Chemicals; and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. Core to Bechtel are our values – ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants – integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.