Senior Manager, Regional Project Controls and Operations Support

Taurus Industrial Group•Deer Park, TX

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About The Position

The Senior Manager Project Controls and Operations Support is an Operations role supporting daily project management across Taurus Industrial Group’s South-Central Region. The position maintains operational job work-in-progress (WIP), tracks physical progress and costs, helps resolve execution issues, and coordinates complete, accurate documentation so work can be invoiced promptly. It supports the General Managers of the Freeport, Golden Triangle, and Louisiana P&Ls and works with Project Managers, Site Managers, field supervisors, coordinators, and Project Controls personnel across crafts and business lines. The role reports to the Sr. Vice President – South Central Region. This role owns coordination and follow-through on operational project controls and billing readiness. It is separate from Finance FP&A: Finance retains responsibility for financial planning, consolidated forecasts, P&L analysis, and accounting. General Managers retain P&L accountability, while Project Managers remain responsible for project delivery. The position maintains job WIP and status records; reviews progress, costs, productivity, schedules, commitments, and remaining work; coordinates job documentation and billing handoffs; and prepares operational dashboards and exception reports. It also coordinates Project Controls resources, trains and coaches Project Managers and Superintendents, and improves operational processes. The role may set regional operational Project Controls and documentation standards, require timely project information, challenge unsupported assumptions, recommend corrective actions, and escalate unresolved issues. It does not independently approve changes to contract scope, pricing, budgets, capital expenditures, or customer commitments outside delegated authority, approve accounting treatments, or replace the authority of General Managers, Project Managers, Finance, or Billing.

Requirements

At least 10 years of relevant industrial construction, maintenance, turnaround, or capital project experience.
At least four years of direct experience as a Project Manager responsible for field execution and project delivery.
Demonstrated experience supporting multiple projects or locations, including job WIP, progress measurement, scheduling, productivity, cost controls, and cost-to-complete updates.
Working knowledge of time and materials, unit rate, and lump sum contracts; customer documentation requirements; progress billing; and change order administration.
Experience coordinating field records, customer approvals, and billing packages, resolving issues, and holding teams accountable for deadlines.
Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence across functions and support General Managers and Project Managers.
Demonstrated ability to train and coach Project Managers and Superintendents in practical project management principles and their application in industrial field operations.
Proficiency in Excel and ERP or project management systems.
Ability to coordinate Project Controls resources and follow through consistently across multiple P&Ls.
Ability to challenge unsupported progress and cost assumptions and escalate unresolved issues.
The role does not independently approve changes to contract scope, pricing, budgets, capital expenditures, or customer commitments outside delegated authority, approve accounting treatments, or replace the authority of General Managers, Project Managers, Finance, or Billing.

Nice To Haves

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Experience with Viewpoint Vista, scheduling software, and Power BI.

Responsibilities

Support daily project execution from startup through closeout, including jobsite visits, project reviews, field coaching, and follow-up on execution issues.
Maintain an action log with accountable owners and due dates, follow up on overdue items, and escalate unresolved risks or decisions to Operations leadership.
Review labor hours, installed quantities, milestones, productivity, and schedule progress against job plans; help Project Managers develop and track corrective actions.
Support job startup by confirming scope, authorized budgets, cost codes, purchase orders, billing requirements, and documentation responsibilities.
Maintain current operational job WIP and status records, including work performed, physical percent complete where applicable, actual and committed costs, remaining work, expected completion dates, changes, and billing status.
Obtain and validate Project Manager updates on quantities, labor needs, and cost to complete; reconcile reported progress with field records and explain significant changes in job outlook.
Monitor job costs against approved budgets and production plans; identify overruns, idle resources, and incorrect job coding for timely correction.
Track commitments and costs incurred but not recorded, including pending supplier and subcontractor invoices, and provide supporting details to Finance for accruals and job cost review.
Review aging unbilled work and stalled jobs with Operations and Billing; identify and track resolution of documentation, approval, scope, or contract issues preventing invoicing.
Coordinate completion, receipt, and review of contract- and customer-required job documentation; maintain job-specific checklists and track missing items through Billing acceptance.
Ensure time records, daily reports, signed field tickets, equipment logs, material receipts, subcontractor support, progress quantities, and customer approvals are obtained by billing deadlines.
Check billing support against contract rates, authorized scope, purchase order limits, approved change orders, and job cost records; resolve discrepancies with Project Managers, Commercial Operations, and Billing.
Deliver complete billing packages to Billing as work becomes billable; track handoffs and returned packages and resolve missing support or invoice questions.
Maintain change order and extra-work logs, preserve field records, and follow up on required authorization and customer approvals before associated work is billed.
Coordinate final quantities, acceptance documents, punch lists, rental returns, demobilization records, and final billing support for prompt job closeout.
Maintain operational dashboards and exception reports covering job progress, productivity, cost deviations, pending changes, missing documentation, billing readiness, and unresolved actions.
Conduct daily exception follow-up and regular job reviews with Project Managers and General Managers; report issues requiring regional leadership intervention and corrective-action status.
Supply timely, supported project inputs to Finance for WIP accounting, close, and forecasts while maintaining ownership of operational source data and actions.
Evaluate Project Controls support needs by workload, project complexity, and risk; coordinate regional and, as authorized, cross-regional assignments.
Establish standards, review exceptions, coach teams, assign routine document collection and data entry to coordinators and Project Controls staff, and set deadlines and review requirements.
Develop and deliver practical project management training for Operations Project Managers and Superintendents on scope definition, execution planning, scheduling, resource planning, progress measurement, cost controls, risk management, change control, and closeout.
Coach teams on WIP updates, cost-to-complete estimates, productivity reviews, field documentation, customer approvals, and billing readiness; reinforce practices through project reviews.
Assess skill gaps, coordinate onboarding and refresher training with Operations leadership, and track participation and demonstrated application on active jobs.
Standardize practical job startup, progress tracking, cost review, documentation, billing handoff, and closeout processes while accommodating customer and contract requirements.
Work with Operations, Billing, Purchasing, Commercial Operations, and Finance to remove recurring process bottlenecks and improve use of company-approved systems.
Capture lessons learned from cost overruns, documentation gaps, and billing delays; implement improvements and verify follow-through.
Establish regional operational Project Controls and documentation standards consistent with company policy, require timely and complete project information, challenge unsupported progress and cost assumptions, recommend corrective actions, and escalate unresolved issues to the Sr. Vice President – South Central Region.