Project Controls Director

Turner & Townsend • Indianapolis, IN

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About The Position

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Project Controls Director to lead project controls services for major client accounts and support broader business initiatives. The role establishes and executes strategic direction across cost, risk, and schedule management, and leads project controls teams and deliverables with quality control and assurance. It also supports project governance, budgeting, estimating, reporting, change management, risk analysis, and project intake-to-closeout processes. The position may include SOX control responsibilities where applicable. On-site presence and requirements may change depending on client needs.

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with more than 22,000 people in over 60 countries, working across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources. Its services include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions. The company is majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., with its partners holding a significant minority interest.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a field related to construction.
• 12 or more years of relevant project controls experience.
• At least 2 years managing high-performing project control teams in a consulting environment.
• Knowledge of multiple contract delivery methods and the merits of each.
• A track record of success with schedules, cost control, estimating, and risk management.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing project controls systems, including financial and scheduling controls, for a major capital project.
• Experience establishing and monitoring project baselines and performance metrics.
• Proficiency in project management software such as Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project, and advanced Microsoft Excel skills for data analysis and reporting.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret complex project data and provide meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements, industry standards, and compliance frameworks relevant to the project domain.
• Leadership skills and ability to influence and motivate project teams toward project control objectives.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, written, organizational, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree in quantity surveying, cost management, construction management, or engineering.

Responsibilities

• Establish and execute strategic direction for project controls, including cost management, risk management, and schedule management.
• Manage the project budget approval process.
• Lead risk workshops to identify risks, assess likelihood and severity, define mitigation actions, and assign owners.
• Lead project controls deliverables requiring cross-functional input.
• Motivate the team by providing clear direction and goals, and assist with weekly team meetings to review initiatives and performance.
• Lead the development and production of regular reporting and prepare documentation for project gateway and approval processes.
• Develop guidelines for project-level chartering and partnering.
• Review the Project Master Schedule for sequencing, interface milestones, and critical path elements developed by others.
• Develop and recommend the project budget, cash flow, and financial plan.
• Oversee and lead the project risk management process, establish ongoing risk processes, and coordinate regular Monte Carlo analyses.
• Develop the work plan forming the Project Execution Plan (PEP), and review, critique, and submit project implementation plans for approval.
• Manage project estimating and life-cycle asset costing, including contingency methodology and estimate evolution over the project lifecycle.
• Develop and submit change management and impact mitigation strategies for approval, covering scope, cost, schedule control, and cost reduction initiatives.
• Develop controls to measure team performance against project baseline metrics.
• Develop protocols and guidelines for diversity compliance, monitoring, and reporting.
• Establish metrics and a basis for progress reporting across projects and contracts, covering performance measurement, forecasting, trending, issues, actions, progress, and overall status.
• Develop project guidelines and protocols for cost reduction initiatives and review project-level cost reduction and diversity recommendations.
• Review construction progress, approve recovery plans, and review claims resolution recommendations.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to achieve consent.
• Consider expanding project intake deliverables to strengthen business cases, estimates, and schedules; develop an end-to-end process for project controls information from intake through closeout; incorporate feedback from closeout into intake, cost, and scheduling processes; and integrate intake, cost, and scheduling reporting.
• Lead the Project Controls Team and ensure deliverables meet quality control and assurance requirements.
• Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.

Benefits

• The company promotes a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
• The company describes its workplace as one where employees have the opportunity and voice to affect change.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director