Project Controls Director
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About the Role
Lead project controls strategy, ensuring cost, schedule, risk, and change management while fostering high-performance teams and implementing best practices.
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Responsibilities
- Establish, manage, and enforce overall project controls strategy, systems, procedures, and reporting frameworks
- Oversee preparation, review, and approval of integrated master schedule
- Direct all cost engineering functions including estimating, cost control, cash flow forecasting, and budget monitoring
- Lead development and implementation of comprehensive project risk management frameworks
- Direct management of project changes and variations
- Oversee preparation of executive level reports, dashboards, and KPIs
- Lead evaluation, implementation, and optimization of project controls systems and digital platforms
- Lead and manage a multidisciplinary project controls team
Requirements
- Extensive experience in project controls, cost, schedule, risk, and change management
- Strong leadership capabilities and deep technical knowledge of project controls best practices
- Ability to establish and enforce project controls strategy, systems, and procedures
- Experience with integrated master schedule development and advanced scheduling methodologies
- Proficiency in cost engineering, EVM, and risk management frameworks
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for executive level reporting
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Overview
- The Project Controls Director will lead all aspects of cost, schedule, risk, and change management across a complex development program.
- This role requires extensive experience, strong leadership capabilities, and deep technical knowledge of project controls best practices.
- The Director will ensure robust governance, accurate forecasting, transparent reporting, and high performance execution.
What You'll Be Doing
- Establish, manage, and enforce the overall project controls strategy, systems, procedures, and reporting frameworks across the program.
- Develop project control plans, governance models, and performance measurement systems aligned with client and program objectives.
- Ensure integration of cost, schedule, risk, and change management across all phases of the project lifecycle.
- Implement best practices, policies, and standards for project controls across all project packages and delivery teams.
- Oversee the preparation, review, and approval of the integrated master schedule, ensuring alignment across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover activities.
- Monitor schedule progress and performance, identifying delays, potential impacts, and mitigation strategies.
- Evaluate contractor schedules to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and project milestones.
- Implement advanced scheduling methodologies such as critical path analysis, schedule risk assessment, and resource loaded scheduling.
- Provide schedule forecasts and recovery strategies to support proactive project management.
- Direct all cost engineering functions including cost estimating, cost control, cash flow forecasting, and budget monitoring.
- Establish project cost baselines and ensure accurate tracking of expenditures against approved budgets.
- Lead monthly cost reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis to ensure financial transparency and control.
Risk and Change Management
- Analyze cost trends and recommend corrective actions to maintain financial performance.
- Ensure alignment with performance measurement frameworks such as Earned Value Management (EVM).
- Lead the development and implementation of comprehensive project risk management frameworks.
- Facilitate risk identification workshops, qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, and mitigation planning.
- Oversee schedule and cost risk modeling to support decision making and contingency allocation.
- Monitor risk exposure, mitigation effectiveness, and escalation of critical risks to senior leadership.
- Maintain an active risk register and ensure proactive management of project uncertainties.
- Direct the management of project changes and variations to ensure proper evaluation, documentation, and integration into project baselines.
- Establish and maintain structured change control processes and governance.
- Facilitate Change Control Board (CCB) meetings and ensure transparent decision making.
- Collaborate with commercial and contract teams in evaluating claims, entitlement assessments, and negotiation strategies.
- Ensure accurate tracking of project trends, early warning notices, and potential claims exposure.
Reporting and Systems
- Oversee preparation of executive level reports, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Ensure consistent, transparent, and timely reporting of project performance, risks, and opportunities.
- Present complex project performance data in clear and actionable formats for executive leadership and stakeholders.
- Provide strategic insights to support informed decision making at program level.
- Lead the evaluation, implementation, and optimization of project controls systems and digital platforms.
- Promote continuous improvement through automation, advanced analytics, and performance monitoring tools.
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity across all project controls systems.
- Establish standardized processes and documentation practices to maintain audit readiness.
- Introduce innovative technologies and methodologies to enhance forecasting accuracy and reporting efficiency.
- Lead and manage a multidisciplinary project controls team including planners, schedulers, cost engineers, risk specialists, and reporting analysts.
- Build and maintain high performing teams focused on collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence.
- Conduct performance evaluations and support professional development and training initiatives.
Collaboration
- Foster a culture of data accuracy, continuous improvement, and operational discipline.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, construction, procurement, contracts, finance, and operational teams to ensure alignment across the project lifecycle.
- Coordinate with senior stakeholders, project partners, contractors, and consultants.
- Proactively identify and resolve project issues to ensure seamless integration of project controls strategies.
- Ensure effective cross functional communication and coordination across all project delivery teams.
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