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 contribute to wider business initiatives. The role establishes and executes strategic direction across cost, risk, and schedule management, leads project controls teams and deliverables, and provides quality control and assurance. The position covers project controls from intake through closeout, including budgets, estimates, baselines, reporting, change management, risk processes, and project performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering, or a construction-related field.
• At least 12 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 their merits.
• Proven success with schedules, cost control, estimating, and risk management.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing a project controls system, including financial and scheduling controls, for a major capital project.
• Experience establishing and monitoring project baselines and performance metrics.
• Proficiency with project management software such as Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project, and advanced Microsoft Excel skills for data analysis and reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including interpreting complex project data and providing 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 controls 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 the strategic direction of project controls, including cost, risk, and schedule management.
• Manage the project budget approval process and develop and recommend project budgets, cash flows, and financial plans.
• Lead risk workshops to identify risks, assess likelihood and severity, and define mitigation actions and owners; oversee the project risk management process and coordinate regular Monte Carlo analyses.
• Lead cross-functional project controls deliverables and motivate the team through clear direction and goals.
• Support weekly team meetings focused on initiative progress and performance.
• Lead the development and production of regular reporting, including performance measurement, forecasting, trending, issues, actions, progress, and overall status.
• 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.
• Develop the work plan for the Project Execution Plan (PEP), and review and submit project implementation plans developed by supporting PMCM teams for approval.
• Manage project estimating and life-cycle asset costing, including contingency methodology and estimate evolution through the project lifecycle.
• Develop and submit change management and impact mitigation strategies, including scope, cost, schedule control, and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Establish controls to measure team performance against project baseline metrics.
• Develop protocols and guidelines for diversity compliance, monitoring, and reporting, and review project-level diversity recommendations.
• Establish metrics and reporting protocols for projects and contracts.
• Develop project guidelines for cost-reduction initiatives and review project-level recommendations.
• Review construction progress and approve recovery plans.
• Review claims-resolution recommendations.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to achieve consent.
• Consider expanding project intake deliverables and developing an end-to-end project controls process from intake through closeout, including feedback on cost and scheduling information and integrated reporting.
• Lead the Project Controls Team and ensure deliverables meet quality control and assurance standards.
• Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

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