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About the Role
WSP is seeking a Vice President, Project Controls Manager to join our Project Controls team in San Francisco Bay area. This will be a hybrid position (4 days onsite, 1 day remote) at our client’s office in Santa Clara.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of program-wide project controls processes, procedures, governance frameworks, and systems in collaboration with the client and PM.
- Ensure effective integration of cost, schedule, risk, and reporting disciplines to support program objectives.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all project controls matters, aligning closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure consistency and transparency in reporting and controls.
- Oversee enterprise-level dashboards to monitor program health and provide real-time insights into key performance indicators (KPIs), risk exposure, trends, and variances.
- Establish and enforce robust cost control procedures across all projects and program elements, enabling proactive tracking of budgets, forecasting, variance analysis, and identification of cost optimization opportunities.
- Collaborate with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to evaluate design and execution options, providing strategic recommendations to improve cost-effectiveness and value delivery.
- Integrate cost and schedule management practices, ensuring accurate earned value management (EVM), performance measurement, and predictive analytics across the program lifecycle.
- Provide clear, timely, and actionable reports and presentations on cost and schedule performance to senior leadership, stakeholders, and the client, enabling data-driven decision-making.
- Contribute to project and program-level meetings focused on risk, change control, performance, and strategic planning, ensuring alignment with controls best practices.
- Lead the development and maintenance of comprehensive financial reporting across all work packages and subprojects, including roll-up reports, cash flow analysis, and funding status.
- Monitor funding allocations and procurement plans to ensure alignment with approved budgets and program funding strategies.
- Manage the program’s change control processes, including assessment of cost and schedule impacts of proposed changes, and provide guidance on mitigation strategies.
- Oversee the preparation and validation of program estimates, budgets, forecasts, cost trends, and estimates to complete (ETC), ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and funding profiles.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or related field (or equivalent)
- 12 years of combined field and office project controls experience involving large-scale mega projects, especially with transit/rail background
- Extensive knowledge of cost estimating methodologies, cost control techniques, and schedule management best practices.
- Ability to interface with clients and participate in business development initiatives.
- Excellent communication skills, written, oral and interpersonal skills to deal with a high-pressure environment.
- The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
Skills
- Cost estimating methodologies
- Cost control techniques
- Schedule management best practices
- Earned value management (EVM)
- Performance measurement
- Predictive analytics
- Risk management
- Change control
- Financial reporting
- Cash flow analysis
- Business development
Location
- San Francisco Bay area
- Santa Clara
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 4 days onsite, 1 day remote
Experience Level
- Vice President
- 12 years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or related field (or equivalent)
Salary/Compensations
- $230,800-290,180/year
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Disability coverage
- Life insurance
- Retirement savings
- Paid sick leave
- Paid vacation (or other personal time)
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off for bereavement
- Paid time off for voting
- Paid time off for naturalization proceedings
About the Company
- WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms.
- Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals.
- WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets.
- With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
- WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs.
- At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base.
- Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges.
Equal Opportunity
- WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.