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About the Role

The Director, Project Controls serves as the primary audit, controls, and financial partner for Terawatt’s Site Delivery organization. This role bridges construction operations and corporate finance, combining hands-on project controls expertise with FP&A-level rigor. This role ensures project budgets, forecasts, and schedules are accurate and current across a nationwide portfolio, managing cost and schedule status across complex real estate acquisitions, utility interconnections, and high-voltage construction projects.

Responsibilities

Audit and reconcile project budgets, commitments, actual spend, work in progress (WIP), and forecast at completion (FAC) across all active development sites.
Categorize budget variances by root cause (scope changes, vendor overruns, utility escalation, estimating errors, or carrying cost slips).
Establish and enforce review cadences, checklists, and sign-off gates.
Maintain the Project Change Order log, pressure testing scope changes, budget impacts, and vendor proposals before routing for approval.
Partner with FP&A and Accounting to reconcile site-level actuals, and prepare corporate reporting.
Oversee development draw requests, manage review/coding of monthly contractor pay applications (AIA G702/G703 standards, lien waivers), and assist with cash flow projections and draw schedules.
Ensure findings for budget, contract, and schedule discrepancies are addressed, escalated, and closed out on a defined timeline.
Own and maintain the Plan of Record (currently in Smartsheet) as the trusted single source of truth for project schedules.
Design processes to surface schedule updates in near-real time, lead weekly project reviews and hold PMs accountable for schedule hygiene.
Conduct regular schedule variance and critical path analyses to flag risks early, providing cross functional teams with updated information.
Partner with Supply Chain/Procurement to monitor long-lead equipment deliveries and balance internal/vendor resource demands to safeguard key milestones.
Develop and maintain real-time dashboards to keep leadership and Board informed with audit-ready reporting.
Prepare board-level and executive reporting packages.
Develop and implement Site Delivery Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), RACI assignments, and Playbook documentation.
Initiate cost/schedule benchmarking regimes based on audit findings.
Design and deliver project controls training for new hires.
Maintain unified communications on project budget and schedule status across Finance, Sales, BD, Technology, and Operations teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field
9+ years of progressive experience in project controls, cost/schedule audit, capital project management, and/or financial analysis, FP&A, or corporate finance/cost accounting for complex capital projects
Experience with construction accounting principles, project finance mechanics, AIA billing processes (G702/G703 standards), lien waivers, and EPC/GC contracting structures.
Advanced-level budget building and tracking; ability to build, maintain, and track large-scale capital project budgets at the line item and overall portfolio levels, identifying and communicating variance drivers.
Advanced Excel skills (data modeling, variance visualization).
Experience working with modern construction and financial software platforms (e.g., Procore, Yardi, NetSuite, MRI, or Sage 300 CRE).
Ability to translate complex financial and schedule variance data into plain-language actionable advice for non-finance operational partners, helping them make better financial decisions.
Experience using data visualization tools and dashboards to drive communication and reporting.
Exercise independent judgment and can deliver unwelcome variance or audit findings to project owners and leadership clearly, and stand behind them under pressure.
Exceptional attention to detail and curiosity; dig beneath high-level summaries into schedule logic and line-item actuals to identify root causes.
Can get project managers and external vendors to adopt new processes and follow those we have.
Take ownership and navigate ambiguity in high-growth, fast-paced environments.

Skills

Project Controls
Cost Tracking
Schedule Integration
Change Management
FP&A
Auditing
Variance Analysis
Rolling Forecasts
Capital Planning
Executive Reporting
Smartsheet
Data Visualization
Excel
Procore
Yardi
NetSuite
MRI
Sage 300 CRE

Experience Level

9+ years of progressive experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field

Salary/Compensations

$210,000 - $235,000 a year

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package
Performance-based incentives (where applicable)

About the Company

Terawatt Infrastructure is a leader in delivering large scale, turnkey charging solutions for companies rapidly deploying AV and EV fleets.
The company develops, finances, owns, and operates charging solutions that take the cost and complexity out of electrifying fleets.
Six core values guide how we work: commitments we make to each other.
Our pace is set by a simple conviction: imperfect action beats perfect inaction, so we move with purpose, adapt without ego, and measure ourselves by progress rather than activity.
Ownership travels with autonomy.
Your name is on the work, and the best answer wins the conversation, wherever it lives.
Candor works because of what surrounds it: people who show up with intention and have each other's back, tough on ideas and generous with people.
Our customers feel this as reliability earned daily, every interaction treated as a chance to build something lasting.
The climate doesn't wait, and the stakes are also human: behind every checklist and every inspection is a person going home safely.
We call it 'This work has a heartbeat' — it's what the other five rest on.

Equal Opportunity

Terawatt Infrastructure is an equal-opportunity employer.
We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
If a reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the position, please contact people@terawattinfrastructure.com.