Key Metric and Benchmarking Program Manager

Integra•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Key Metric and Benchmarking Program Manager will champion the implementation and continuous improvement of Integra's enterprise cost and schedule benchmarking program. The role is the central owner of historical project performance data, benchmarking standards, analytics, reporting, and lessons learned across the full project lifecycle. Reporting directly to the Director of Project Controls, this position partners with Preconstruction, Construction, Finance, and other stakeholders, and provides executive leadership with insight into historical data and its use to improve estimate accuracy, schedule realism, risk management, forecasting, and project performance. As the enterprise steward of project benchmarking and historical performance measurement, the manager will help establish the “Integra Way” for cost, schedule, and performance analytics across business units. Responsibilities span benchmarking governance and data management, historical project closeout, support for preconstruction and sales, cost and schedule analysis, executive reporting, and continuous improvement. Integra specializes in optimized turnkey solutions for mission-critical data center infrastructure and is vertically integrated across site selection, design, manufacturing, procurement, commissioning, and warranty. The company describes its culture as collaborative, accountable, and focused on continuous improvement.

Requirements

15 or more years of experience in Project Controls, Cost Control, Estimating, Scheduling, Construction Analytics, and Capital Program Controls.
Experience with Advanced Excel.
Experience with Power BI.
Experience with Procore.
Experience with Primavera P6.
Experience with SQL or database reporting tools.
Experience with statistical analysis and dashboard development.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience working on mission-critical facilities.
Prior experience working on data centers.
Prior experience working on EPC programs.
Prior experience working on large-scale industrial construction.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain enterprise benchmarking standards, methodologies, and governance.
Establish standardized benchmark metrics across cost, schedule, staffing, productivity, risk, and execution performance.
Maintain the enterprise benchmarking database and historical project repository, including data quality, normalization, validation, and reporting processes.
Coordinate handover of conformed estimate data and align collection of project actuals during execution and at project closeout.
Capture lessons learned and performance outcomes from completed projects, and establish repeatable closeout workflows to preserve benchmark data.
Maintain benchmark libraries for key quantities and analysis ratios.
Participate in pursuit and deal-team reviews and support benchmarking evaluations during business development and preconstruction.
Provide benchmark comparisons for executive reviews and Go/No-Go decisions.
Assist with estimate validation and challenge assumptions using historical performance data.
Develop and maintain enterprise cost and schedule benchmark libraries.
Analyze milestone durations, critical path trends, and project delivery performance.
Maintain normalized cost comparisons across projects and support estimate validation and escalation analysis.
Monitor estimate trends against actual project outcomes and identify drivers affecting estimating accuracy.
Maintain executive Power BI dashboards and benchmarking reports, establish variance thresholds and performance indicators, and provide portfolio-level comparison reporting.
Support Monthly Project Reviews and executive leadership presentations.
Identify trends affecting project performance and recommend process improvements based on historical data.
Support development of enterprise standards and SOPs, and facilitate benchmark reviews and lessons-learned workshops.