Project Controls Manager (Heavy Industrial and Mining)
Company: Sundt Construction
Location: Atlanta, GA
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-07-18
About this role
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Project Controls Manager will work collaboratively with their respective business units to ensure the SMS policies and standard operating procedures are understood and implemented for all projects. In addition, the Project Controls Manager will play a key role in measuring and analyzing project performance metrics to ensure to mitigate risk and ensure relentless execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate compliance auditing of project related governance required by the SMS and Project Management Plan (PMP) established by the project team and approved by the Business Unit Management.
- Drive Lean principles and practices throughout the organization as part of continuous improvement process on all projects.
- Evaluate and propose updates to SMS workflows, forms, templates and system manuals based on interaction with project teams.
- Identify areas of excellence for best practices and lessons learned that have potential for broader implementation across the organization, including training, development and support needs.
- Measure presence and functionality and value added from project use of system software in application of SMS including Prolog, JDE, Textura and others as required.
- Optimize utilization of VDC companywide to improve parametric estimating, budgeting & scheduling results.
- Participate in business unit project status reporting (MPR & ELPR), including identifying actionable measures for improvement, lessons learned and subsequent follow up.
- Participate in development of data analytics and reporting formats to streamline auditing uniform and consistent application of SMS policy and procedures.
- Perform analytical review and measurement of project performance metrics and trends to identify early warnings of project performance risk.
- Provide Business Unit support in development and implementation of recovery plans for critical project management performance deficiencies as assigned by PMO.
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