HDR: Our Story
https://www.hdrinc.com/our-story
At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected. A place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: "What is our impact on the world?"
Join Our Team: Project Controls Manager
HDR is looking for a Project Controls Manager to join our team. The primary role of this position is to develop and maintain project controls practices on assigned projects with the goal to meet scope, schedule, and budget performance. This role will work alongside the Program and Project Managers to establish project controls approach for the project and, when necessary, manage a project controls team to actively monitor project performance, plan, and identify deficiencies if necessary.
Project Scope and Responsibilities
The type of projects this role will engage in ranges from industrial facilities, pipelines, and terminals, substations, and transmission lines, renewable resources, power generation, and waste facilities. This role is expected to play a central role in program delivery and assist the Program Manager in assessing programs health and KPIs. Depending on the size of the project or program, this role may manage a team of project controls specialists from schedule, cost, risk, earned value, document control, and PMIS (Project Management Information System) when executing program work.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Develop project controls processes and procedures for assigned programs/projects to set up a framework to manage scope, budget, and schedule. • Manage and direct a team of project controls specialists and document controls specialists to implement project controls plan for the program. • Collaborate with corporate project controls director and business group business class lead for consistent project controls approach. • Work with project manager, accountants, and other team leads to develop work breakdown structure and cost breakdown structure. • Develop, update, and analyze CPM schedules for projects, including variance analysis. • Facilitate multi-stakeholders interactive planning sessions, such as schedule workshops. • Coordinate with teams regarding the interface with owners, activities, permitting, real estates, engineering, construction, and commissioning schedules. • Review and oversight of contractors schedules for assigned work scope. • Recommend schedule work-around and mitigation efforts to the team. • Develop earned value method and coordinate such system with schedule update. • Communicate project status to management regularly via formal meetings and reports. • Assist project manager in monthly reporting and meetings. • Interact with engineering discipline leads & construction managers to understand issues and conflicts impacting schedule. • Establish cost control method for the assigned project or program. • Support Project and Program Managers in preparing and implementing change management procedure. • Work closely with the PMIS team to recommend technology solutions to manage data and information that the program will receive, generate, analyze, consume, and communicate to stakeholders. • Perform other duties as needed.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree in engineering, construction management, engineering management, accounting, business administration, or closely related fields. • 10 years serving as project controls manager for infrastructure projects, each with contract values of more than $300 million, or a program with interrelated projects with combined values of $300 million or more. • 10 years working knowledge of and proficient at project controls and scheduling software packages, such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Projects. • Familiarity with variations of project controls role using various delivery methods, including traditional design bid build, DBB design-build, DB EPC, progressive design build, PDB, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), and/or construction management at-risk (CMAR). • Experience with additional PMIS software, such as eBuilder, ProCore, QuickBase, InEight, Kahua, PMWeb, etc., strongly desired. • Strong interpersonal skills and a "can-do" attitude.
Our Culture and Commitment
HDR is our company. Together, we build on each others life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust, and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.
Our Commitment:
As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected, and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day. Our eight Employee Network Groups - Asian Pacific, Black Hispanic/Latina, LGBTQ, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals - help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.