Project Controls Manager
We are strategizing, planning, and implementing projects that help clients achieve their organization’s objectives. Join our award-winning program management team and bring transformational project solutions to life.
By managing capital programs and projects as if they were our own, our project management business, and technical experts work with clients to strategize, plan, and implement projects that help them achieve their organization’s objectives. Our award-winning team has managed thousands of projects across all sectors — hospitals, airports, and entire university campuses; infrastructure like mass transit and water-treatment facilities; and energy and resource assignments, from mines to wind farms.
We are seeking to hire a Project Controls Manager in Washington, DC. The individual will be responsible for providing project controls expertise to improve Stantec’s delivery of Programs. In this role, you will have oversight of projects and will support delivery by developing project controls solutions to identified challenges. The position will be responsible for program/project controls activities and will support program efforts by coordinating with program management staff. Furthermore, the individual will be required to participate in analyzing Client project controls needs and assist delivery teams in developing the combination of tools, processes, and people to enable the team to manage a portfolio of projects with visibility into schedule and budget KPIs and trends. This role will be dedicated to a client site and full-time onsite presence is required.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Developing and implementing project controls standards and procedures, monitor compliance and initiate corrective measures as necessary.
- Ensuring that all planning and scheduling activities such as schedule development, project reporting and problem analysis activities comply with Company and client requirements.
- Providing consultation to the Company, client and subcontractors in planning, delivery and scheduling activities.
- Communicating areas of concern to Program Leadership Team.
- Provide QA/QC of cost and scheduling processes, reports, and utilization.
- Consistently and successfully deploying solutions for key accounts as assigned.
- Leading large, complex teams through challenging project assignments and complex client environments.
- Represent project controls tasks in meetings with client, subcontractors, and others, as required.
- Initiating and maintaining Client relationships to facilitate program activities.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication and negotiating skills.
- Work in a manner to ensure personal safety and that of fellow employees by following company health and safety guidelines and policies.
- Consistently adhere to and enforce internal Company processes and policies such as business and contracting rules.
- Must be able to demonstrate good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment
- Must demonstrate organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong willingness to be a part of a large global engineering company, and to work with teams in other offices around the world
- Direct experience in developing and updating cost and resource loaded schedules using, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and other database programs, web-based tools and spreadsheets
- Experience in project management systems and software including Primavera, e-Builder, PMWeb, Aconex, or similar, with integrating project management systems with ERP systems including Oracle and JD Edwards
- Experience in mapping complex business processes and developing efficiencies using Visio
- Demonstrated experience in development of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), scheduling and schedule analysis, cost estimating and cost control, budget development, reporting and record/document control
- Experience in the municipal sector in areas of public works, utilities, transportation, and industry and on multi-sector programs is preferred
Education and Experience
- BA/BS in Engineering/Environmental/Construction Management required
- Minimum 7 years of program management experience in infrastructure/buildings/utility projects required
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification highly desired