Position: Sr. Project Controls Manager
Company: Loenbro - Industrial Services
Location : Gilbert, AZ \ SW Region
Reports To: Director of Project Controls
Do you want to work for an industry leading, growing, diversified employer who believes in acting, doing what we say, leading by example, doing the right thing, and practicing stewardship? Loenbro is a leader in the industrial services space who strives to be more than just a contractor to our customer, but a business partner who provides superior quality and service. This is your opportunity to work for a great employer who puts employees and their customers first.
We have worked hard to build and maintain our reputation and are looking for industrious, conscientious, and motivated individuals to join our team. We encourage you to visit our website at to learn more about our organization and who we are.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Project Controls Manager to join our Southwest and Mission Critical team and to lead project cost, schedule, and production controls across a wide range of construction projects — including mechanical, electrical, and heavy industrial work.
This Senior Project Controls Manager will oversee a team of Project Controls Managers who are responsible for implementing, training, auditing, and continual improvement of all project controls across the various projects and service lines in the Southwest. You will bring a strong ability to lead, coach, and train your PCMs, field and senior leaders on Loenbro Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
This position reports directly to the Director of Project Controls and serves as a trusted partner to the Mission Critical and Southwest Vice Presidents and Operations Managers.
Job Duties:
The project controls specific items including all items in the project lifecycle, such as:
- Preconstruction:
- Estimate support of historical data.
- Manage bid schedules.
- Estimate conforming and turnover.
- Budget and production tracking setup.
- Facilitate Project Kick-off and Readiness Review process.
- Construction:
- Document Control.
- Contract Management & Billing.
- Planning and Scheduling.
- Change Management.
- Daily and Weekly Production Monitoring.
- Project Specific End of Month Forecasting and Reporting.
- Risk Management.
- End of Month Regional Financial Work in Process (WIP) Reporting and KPIs.
- Subcontract and Material Management.
- Close-out:
- Punchlist Management.
- Client Turnover.
- Final Change Order Preparation.
- Finally Billing, Retention Release and payment.
- Subcontract Lien waivers and final payments.
- Close Project from WIP.
- Post-mortem Reviews.
- Warranty Management.
Project Controls:
- Estimating Support:
- Review and provide feedback on the SOP for estimating process, including RFP receipt, document repository, estimate and proposal development, risk analysis tools, IFB/IFC true ups, and cost and productivity feedback loop from operations to ensure direct link to Project Execution needs.
- Support estimating effort as needed and participate in bid reviews to ensure estimates fall in line with historical production, costing, and margins.
- Support the development of new T&M rate sheets for the service lines in the Southwest.
- Project Lifecycle: develop, train, and audit the following:
- Project Setup SOP: Budget, Accounting Interface, Work Plans, PO’s, and Accrual Setup
- Project Execution SOP: Work Plan, Daily and Weekly Costing/Reporting, Production Tracking, Project Scheduling, Document Control, Contract and Subcontract Management (including Change Order Management), Customer Invoicing, Forecasting, Month End, etc.
- Project Closeout SOP: Punchlist, Postmortem, Final Billings, Warranty, Lease Closeouts, Demobilization, Notices, etc.
- Work with Regional Operations Management to ensure compliance with SOPs and reporting requirements.
Additional Job Duties:
- Support resource management throughout the region: labor and equipment leveling, including year-end Cap Ex requirements, as needed across the regions.
- Support current projects as needed. If necessary, parachute in to rectify a situation related to margin erosion or customer relationship turbulence.
- Supplement up-front customer interactions as needed/available to help drive sales.
- The following resources will be assigned to the Southwest Region:
- Centralized Scheduling resources.
- Month End consolidation of project financials.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
Skills/Qualifications:
- 10+ years in construction project controls, cost management, and scheduling (field experience is strongly preferred).
- 5+ years in a senior project controls or operational leadership role within a self-performing contractor.
- Mechanical, electrical, heavy industrial construction — experience with self-perform crews highly valued.
- Bachelor’s in construction management, engineering, or related field preferred.
- Experience with HCSS Heavy Job or similar job costing program.
- Experience with P6 or similar scheduling software.
- Experience with Viewpoint or similar accounting software.
- Experience with Heavy Bid, Accubid, McCormick or similar estimating software.
- Proficient with all Microsoft Office products, including Visual Basic for Applications
- Proficiency with technical writing skills and communication skills.
Essential Requirements:
- Adverse weather conditions for vehicle travel.
- Air travel.
- If driving is required, a valid driver’s license and proof of insurability are required. All drivers are subject to a DMV background records search.
Benefits: Loenbro offers a competitive salary, benefit package & rewards to those who join our team.
- Health Insurance – Up to 80% of the Employee portion paid after 60 days waiting period.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) optional enrollment
- Paid Time Off (PTO) after waiting period.
- 401k eligible after 90 days of employment
- Employees paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
- Other benefits include but are not limited to an EAP, Tele-medicine, and a 24/7 Nurse line.
We are “Leading the Change” in the energy services industry. Our growth and successes have not changed who we are. We live our core values every day:
WE TAKE ACTION
WE DO WHAT WE SAY
WE LEAD BY EXAMPLE
WE DO THE RIGHT THING
WE PRACTICE STEWARDSHIP
*Loenbro is an Equal Opportunity Employer