Project Controls & Change Management Manager

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Project Controls & Change Management Manager to join our team! In this role, you will work closely with the Project Controls Director and management, engineering, procurement, construction, commercial, contracts, finance, and client representatives to assess the impact of changes and support informed project decision-making.

What You'll Be Doing:

Project Controls Management

• Establish and implement project controls procedures, systems, tools, and reporting requirements.

• Develop and maintain the project control baseline, including scope, schedule, cost, resources, and key performance indicators.

• Oversee the preparation and maintenance of the integrated master schedule.

• Ensure that project budgets, commitments, actual costs, forecasts, and cash flows are accurately maintained.

• Monitor project performance against approved cost and schedule baselines.

• Review schedule updates, progress reports, cost reports, forecasts, and variance analyses.

• Ensure timely identification of trends, deviations, risks, and opportunities.

• Coordinate the preparation of monthly project performance reports and executive dashboards.

• Ensure consistent reporting across project teams, contractors, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.

• Lead the development of recovery plans for projects experiencing cost, schedule, or performance issues.

• Support earned value management, productivity analysis, resource planning, and performance measurement activities.

• Ensure project control data is accurate, complete, traceable, and suitable for management decision-making.

Change Management

• Establish and administer the project change management and change control process.

• Manage the identification, registration, assessment, approval, implementation, and closeout of project changes.

• Maintain the project change register, trend register, potential change log, and associated records.

• Review change requests, change notices, variation orders, field instructions, design changes, claims, and contract amendments.

• Ensure that all proposed changes are assessed for their impact on:

  • Scope
  • Cost
  • Schedule
  • Resources
  • Procurement
  • Contracts
  • Engineering
  • Construction
  • Quality
  • Risk
  • Safety and regulatory requirements

• Coordinate the preparation of cost estimates and schedule impact assessments for proposed changes.

• Review contractor and subcontractor change submissions for entitlement, accuracy, completeness, and supporting documentation.

• Ensure that changes are properly authorized before implementation.

• Lead change control meetings and provide recommendations to project leadership and clients.

• Ensure approved changes are incorporated into project budgets, forecasts, schedules, progress measurement systems, and contractual records.

• Monitor the status of pending, approved, rejected, implemented, and closed changes.

• Support the evaluation of claims, extensions of time, compensation events, and disputed changes.

• Identify trends and potential changes at an early stage to minimize cost and schedule impacts.

• Ensure that changes are fully documented and audit-ready.

Team and Stakeholder Management

• Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, and performance management to the project controls and change management team.

• Define roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and performance expectations.

• Coordinate with project managers, engineering managers, construction managers, procurement, contracts, commercial, finance, and client representatives.

• Promote consistent project controls and change management practices across the organization.

• Facilitate workshops, review meetings, risk sessions, and change control boards.

• Communicate project performance, risks, trends, and change impacts clearly to senior management.

• Support contract negotiations and commercial discussions by providing reliable project controls information.

• Develop strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Governance and Continuous Improvement

• Ensure compliance with company policies, project procedures, contractual requirements, and applicable standards.

• Establish effective document control and audit trails for project controls and change management activities.

• Support internal, client, and external audits.

• Identify opportunities to improve project controls processes, reporting systems, data quality, and change management workflows.

• Implement lessons learned and best practices across projects.

• Support project closeout by ensuring that final costs, schedules, approved changes, claims, and contractual records are complete and accurate.

Required Qualifications

• Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related field.
  • 20 years of experience in project controls, cost control, planning, contract administration, change management, or project management.
  • Experience in engineering, procurement, and construction projects, preferably in construction, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, or industrial sectors.
  • Understanding of project change control, cost management, schedule management, and contract administration principles.
  • Ability to interpret project drawings, specifications, schedules, contracts, estimates, and technical documents.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, and communication skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Experience in using project controls or document management systems.

• Preferred Qualifications

  • Professional certification such as PMP, AACE, PSP, CCP, MRICS, or equivalent.
  • Knowledge of earned value management principles.
  • Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Oracle Unifier, EcoSys, SAP, Procore, or similar project management systems.
  • Experience with contract forms such as FIDIC, NEC, EPC, EPCM, or design-build agreements.
  • Knowledge of cost forecasting, progress measurement, schedule analysis, and risk management.
  • Experience preparing time impact analyses and extension-of-time assessments.
  • Experience working with contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and client organizations.

• Technical Skills

  • Change registers and change control workflows
  • Cost estimating and cost impact analysis
  • Schedule impact analysis
  • Trend and risk management
  • Budget and forecast control
  • Contract change administration
  • Variation orders and claims management
  • Progress measurement and earned value management
  • Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project
  • Excel-based reporting and data analysis
  • Document control and audit management
  • Project management information systems
  • Core Competencies
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Commercial and contractual awareness
  • Analytical and problem-solving ability
  • Effective stakeholder coordination
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Ability to identify potential project impacts early
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
  • Sound judgment and decision-making
  • Integrity and confidentiality
  • Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary project environment

• Key Performance Indicators: Performance may be measured by:

  • Timeliness and accuracy of change evaluations
  • Completeness of the change register
  • Percentage of changes processed in accordance with project procedures
  • Accuracy of cost and schedule impact assessments
  • Timely incorporation of approved changes into project baselines
  • Reduction of unapproved or undocumented changes
  • Accuracy of change forecasts and trend reports
  • Timely resolution of pending change items
  • Quality of change documentation and audit compliance
  • Stakeholder satisfaction with the change control process

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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