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About the Role

STV is seeking a highly accomplished Project Controls Manager to lead project controls strategy, governance, and execution for major transportation, transit, aviation, infrastructure, and capital improvement programs. This senior leadership role involves serving as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, clients, and project teams, while driving strategic growth within STV's Project Controls practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive oversight for project controls functions across major programs and portfolios.
• Establish project controls governance, standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Lead integrated cost, schedule, risk, change management, forecasting, and performance management initiatives.
• Develop project controls execution strategies for large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Serve as a senior advisor to executive leadership regarding project performance, financial forecasting, and program delivery risks.
• Direct development of program-wide budgets, forecasts, cash flow models, and financial performance reporting.
• Evaluate project financial health and develop strategic recommendations to improve performance.
• Oversee estimate-at-completion (EAC) forecasting, contingency management, and cost trend analysis.
• Lead executive-level reviews of project controls metrics and financial performance.
• Provide oversight of complex CPM schedules utilizing Primavera P6 and enterprise project controls systems.
• Monitor program milestones, critical paths, schedule risks, and delivery performance.
• Lead schedule recovery planning and delay mitigation strategies.
• Oversee implementation of Earned Value Management (EVM) and performance measurement systems across major programs.
• Direct enterprise-level risk identification, quantitative risk analysis, and mitigation planning initiatives.
• Lead change management processes involving major program scope, cost, and schedule impacts.
• Provide expert support for claims avoidance, dispute resolution, and forensic schedule analyses.
• Guide project teams through complex commercial and contractual challenges.
• Serve as the primary project controls representative to executive client organizations, agency leadership, and program stakeholders.
• Lead executive briefings, board presentations, and program performance reviews.
• Develop long-term client relationships and identify opportunities for expanded project controls services.
• Represent STV as a recognized project controls thought leader within the industry.
• Mentor and develop project controls managers, schedulers, cost engineers, and program controls professionals.
• Support talent acquisition, workforce planning, succession planning, and professional development initiatives.
• Drive innovation through implementation of advanced analytics, digital project delivery tools, dashboards, and reporting systems.
• Support business development, proposal development, strategic pursuits, and major program captures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• 20–25 years of progressive project controls experience supporting major transportation, infrastructure, aviation, transit, water, energy, or capital improvement programs.
• Demonstrated success leading project controls functions on programs valued at $500M+ to multi-billion-dollar levels.
• Extensive experience managing Cost Engineering.
• Extensive experience managing CPM Scheduling.
• Extensive experience managing Forecasting & Cash Flow Analysis.
• Extensive experience managing Risk Management.
• Extensive experience managing Change Management.
• Extensive experience managing Claims Analysis.
• Extensive experience managing Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Extensive experience managing Program Performance Reporting.
• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and enterprise project controls systems.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience supporting complex contracting and program delivery environments.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, presentation, and client relationship skills.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across large, geographically dispersed programs.

Skills

• Project Controls
• Cost Management
• Scheduling
• Risk Management
• Forecasting
• Change Management
• Program Performance Oversight
• Budget Development
• Cash Flow Modeling
• Financial Performance Reporting
• Estimate-at-Completion (EAC) Forecasting
• Contingency Management
• Cost Trend Analysis
• CPM Scheduling
• Primavera P6
• Enterprise Project Controls Systems
• Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Claims Avoidance
• Dispute Resolution
• Forensic Schedule Analyses
• Client Relationship Management
• Team Leadership
• Advanced Analytics
• Digital Project Delivery Tools
• Dashboards
• Reporting Systems
• Business Development
• Proposal Development
• Microsoft Excel
• Power BI

Location

• New York City

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 20-25 years
• Senior leadership

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $187,747.98 - $214,569.12

Benefits

• Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable)
• Disability insurance
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• 401(k) Plan
• Retirement Counseling
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (starting at 16 days)
• Paid Holidays (9 days)
• Back-Up Dependent Care (up to 10 days per year)
• Parental Leave (up to 80 hours)
• Continuing Education Program
• Professional Licensure and Society Memberships

About the Company

• STV is a growing company with a Project Controls Department.

Equal Opportunity

• STV is committed to paying all of its employees in a fair, equitable, and transparent manner.
• The listed pay range is STV’s good-faith salary estimate for this position. Please note that the final salary offered for this position may be outside of this published range based on many factors, including but not limited to geography, education, experience, and/or certifications.
• Not sure this role is the perfect match? We encourage you to apply if STV’s work and values resonate with you.
• We know great candidates don’t always meet every qualification, and research shows women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they do.
• At STV, we believe strong talent comes from a wide range of backgrounds, and your skills and experience may align with this or another opportunity as we continue to grow.