Project Controls Manager - Gas Power Generation

Blattner is expanding its energy construction leadership into gas power generation to build a new business delivering end-to-end hybrid energy solutions. The Project Controls Manager will lead project controls personnel, oversee scheduling, cost forecasting, risk analysis, governance, and data modernization, while improving predictability, profitability, and decision velocity across business units.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees assigned project controls teams and third‑party consultants; provides performance evaluation, time approval, recruitment, and mentorship
• Develops, controls, and analyzes Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules; conducts schedule risk analysis; manages risk and management of change
• Manages workload to ensure timely delivery of schedules, cost forecasts, risk registers and analyses, dashboards, S‑curves, and histograms
• Conducts strategic analysis of project data to drive decisions; provides concise, actionable recommendations to project teams
• Ensures project controls contractual obligations to clients are met; advises project management on contract evaluation and change management
• Identifies project controls deliverables of internal and external partners; ensures contractual obligations are prepared and delivered as required
• Ensures adherence to project controls policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs); ensures new Schedulers complete required training on policies, procedures, tools, and systems
• Collaborates with stakeholders to align and improve processes and systems; assists with methods to measure project controls competencies and schedule effectiveness
• Supports Project Controls leadership with communication plans and organizational updates to Operations and stakeholder departments
• Owns the enterprise Project Controls Governance Framework: sets companywide standards for baselines, progress measurement (including EVM), forecasting cadence, and risk/contingency policies
• Ensures disciplined forecasting, cost management, and schedule integrity within the portfolio, enabling the accurate deliver of 3–12 month forecasts, consolidated executive reporting, and informed margin‑ and cash‑flow‑protecting mitigation plans
• Pre‑award involvement: partners with Estimating and Engineering to develop pursuit schedules, execution strategies, and probabilistic risk/contingency recommendations for mega‑projects; participates in executive bid reviews
• Baseline & contingency authority: chairs baseline and re‑baseline reviews; approves contingency drawdown rules; ensures alignment between commercial terms and controls processes
• Advanced risk analytics: institutionalizes Monte Carlo/quantitative risk analysis for schedule and cost; translates outputs into management reserves and scenario plans
• Digital & data transformation: owns selection, implementation, and adoption of project controls tools and data pipelines (scheduling, cost, risk, BI); standardizes dashboards and KPIs across the enterprise
• Cross‑functional leadership: leads governance forums with Operations, Estimating, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and PMO; resolves systemic schedule and cost risk issues
• Financial impact: connects controls metrics to financial outcomes (CPI/SPI, forecast accuracy, contingency utilization); recommends actions to protect margin and cash; escalates critical variances to executives
• Continuous improvement: executes enterprise initiatives to reduce change cycle time, improve forecast accuracy, and increase schedule adherence across business units

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Industrial Engineering Management, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field; or equivalent education or relevant experience required
• Five or more years progressive experience in a construction project controls discipline including project scheduling, project cost, or project risk analysis or a combination of these experiences
• Previous experience leading senior level individual contributors required
• Adept in team building and managing remote and in-office employees providing purpose, direction, and motivation to achieve team objectives and goals
• Experience professionally developing employees preparing them for growth opportunities and career advancements
• Working knowledge of scheduling software (Primavera, Microsoft Project)
• Working knowledge of cost forecasting software (i.e. Ecosys)
• Working knowledge of Risk Analysis software (i.e.  Primavera Risk, Acumen Risk, @Risk, Safran, etc.)
• Expert in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Effective communication skills (oral, written, presentation, listening)
• Strong mentorship skills (open, supportive, listen, guidance, able to provide timely and constructive feedback on employee performance)
• Ability to organize and prioritize numerous competing tasks for various stakeholders