Project Controls Manager

PCL Construction
Houston, TX

The future you want is within reach.

At PCL, we build the places where life happens and find camaraderie in the process. We're a community of builders committed to building better communities. That's why we're always looking ahead, and not just to the next project or what's next in our industry.

 

We're also looking at what's next for you and how we can help you build a career you're proud of. This position is project-based and you be stationed at one of our projects with locations including: Texas, along the Gulf Coast, or other states including Alaska.

 

Per-diem and project allowance are available to help cover temporary living expenses for candidates who meet the eligibility criteria. Depending on project availability, once your time on this project ends, you may be transferred to the next project or back to our home office in Houston, Texas to await your next assignment.

 

As a Project Controls Manager for our US PICCo office, you will contribute to our team by:

Responsibilities

  • Consistently collaborates and provides advice to the construction/project manager and project team. Proactively identifies, handles, and resolves potential problems, work issues, or schedule challenges. Develops and implements recovery plan. Works with project team to anticipate and resolve project issues.
  • Consistently ensures expectations are effectively communicated to own forces and trades pertaining to work performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements. Always ensures trade contractor coordination and progress are closely supervised.
  • Ensures information is presented appropriately at client engineering meetings. Mentors others on their presenting style to ensure messages is being received accurately.
  • Responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary project controls team (scheduling and planning, estimating, cost-control, subcontract, and document control).
  • Consistently communicates with the project teams to define scope of work, need for change to budgets and schedules, and identification of variances from the original plan.
  • Leads the development and maintenance of resource loaded schedule, critical path analysis, resolution of scheduling issues, supervising schedule delays, impacts and variances to the baseline.
  • Applies analysis and makes recommendations regarding the trending and communicating schedule, progress, and cost information to project personnel.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or related field
  • At least 7 years of experience in project controls, with a focus on industrial construction projects
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong leadership and team management skills
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Proficiency in project management software and tools

PCL is an innovative, employee-owned company comprised of people who find passion in their profession and take pride in doing great work every day. Our work powers the infrastructure and utilities that are essential to daily life and our projects are the scene of vacations, careers, education and healing. We are consistently ranked among the best companies to work for because we are committed to supporting and developing our teams.

The PCL Companies celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating equitable opportunities and an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We make employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or veteran status.

PCL combines numerous pay and benefit strategies to provide a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package. Any salary range displayed by a job board is an estimate. Your salary, which considers your unique qualifications and experience, is just one component of the robust total rewards you'll enjoy at PCL. This may include an employee share purchase offering, discretionary annual performance bonus, comprehensive benefits and wellness programs, retirement plan plus matching, and career development programs.

Should you require an accommodation during the application process, please contact us at [email protected] with the position and location you are interested in.

Together, we can build success and a better future. Let’s get started!

 

Employee Status: Regular Full-Time

Company: PCL Industrial Construction Co.

Primary Location: Houston, Texas

Job: Project Controls Manager

Requisition : 9436

 

Posted 2025-09-24

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