Project Controls Manager – Gas Power Generation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Minnesota.

📋 Description

• Provide leadership to project controls personnel assigned to project management teams.

• Ensure the efficient execution and delivery of project controls processes and deliverables.

• Analyze project data and suggest improvements to processes.

• Lead the modernization of tools, data, and processes across various business units.

• Supervise project controls teams and third-party consultants, including performance evaluations, time approvals, recruitment, and mentorship.

• Develop, manage, and analyze CPM schedules; conduct schedule risk assessments; and handle risk and change management.

• Oversee the delivery of schedules, cost forecasts, risk registers and analyses, dashboards, S-curves, and histograms.

• Perform strategic project-data analysis and provide actionable insights.

• Ensure compliance with contractual project controls obligations and offer guidance on contract evaluations and change management.

• Implement policies, SOPs, training, and competencies related to project controls.

• Own the enterprise Project Controls Governance Framework and establish companywide standards.

• Ensure effective forecasting, cost management, schedule integrity, executive reporting, and the development of mitigation plans to protect margins and cash flow.

• Support pre-award pursuit schedules, execution strategies, risk and contingency recommendations, and executive bid reviews.

• Chair baseline and re-baseline reviews and approve rules for contingency drawdown.

• Institutionalize Monte Carlo and quantitative risk analysis for scheduling and cost management.

• Own the selection, implementation, and adoption of project controls tools, data pipelines, dashboards, and KPIs.

• Lead governance forums with Operations, Estimating, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and PMO.

• Connect controls metrics to financial outcomes and escalate significant variances to executives.

• Execute enterprise continuous improvement initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Industrial Engineering Management, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related field; or equivalent education or relevant experience is required.

• Five or more years of progressive experience in a construction project controls discipline, including project scheduling, project cost management, or project risk analysis, or a combination of these experiences.

• Previous experience in leading senior-level individual contributors is required.

• Experience in managing both remote and in-office employees.

• Experience in the professional development of employees.

• Proficient in scheduling software, including Primavera and Microsoft Project.

• Familiarity with cost forecasting software, such as Ecosys.

• Knowledge of risk analysis software, such as Primavera Risk, Acumen Risk, @Risk, or Safran.

• Expertise in Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.

• Strong oral, written, presentation, and listening communication skills.

• Excellent mentorship abilities.

• Capability to organize and prioritize multiple competing tasks for various stakeholders.

• Ability to uphold Blattner’s values and Blattner Basics.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive pay and annual bonus.

• Reimbursed lodging.

• Per diem.

• Company truck with a gas card.

• Rotational program with paid flights home.

• 100% employer-paid health insurance premiums for employees.

• 100% employer-paid dental insurance premiums for all plan participants.

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Paid time off (PTO).

• Education assistance (tuition reimbursement).

• A culture that focuses on employees and their families.