Full Job Description
About this Role
This role will support projects throughout the Greater West and report out of our Phoenix, AZ office.
Position Summary
Summit Line Construction is seeking a Project Controls Manager to support and lead scheduling efforts across the organization. This role will play a critical part in both the pre-construction (bid) phase and execution (construction) phase of projects, ensuring schedules are accurate, aligned, and proactively managed.
This individual will serve as a centralized resource and will be responsible for building, standardizing, and ultimately leading a growing scheduling function. The ideal candidate brings deep technical scheduling expertise along with strong leadership, communication, and mentoring capabilities.
What You'll Do
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and manage detailed project schedules across multiple projects
- Support estimating and preconstruction teams during bid development with schedule input and analysis
- Partner with project managers and operations teams to ensure schedules are aligned with project execution plans
- Identify schedule risks and opportunities; provide mitigation strategies
- Standardize scheduling practices, tools, reporting processes and update frequencies across the organization
- Perform manpower loading of direct and indirect labor and level resources to establish accurate 9 curves
- Build custom reports in Primavera P6 to support productivity tracking and earned value (EV) analysis on a real time basis
- Support standardization of WBS structures in collaboration with project controls and estimating teams
- Develop systems for reporting unit rate performance back to estimating throughout the project lifecycle
- Incorporate commodity tracking into schedules and/or reporting tools
- Develop a system for managing project staffing across active and pending projects
- Lead and mentor a developing team of schedulers as the function grows
- Provide regular schedule updates, reporting, and insights to project and executive leadership
Support claims, change management, and schedule-related documentation as needed
What You'll Bring
Qualifications
- Bachelor9s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of experience in project scheduling within construction, utilities, or infrastructure
- Advanced proficiency in scheduling software (Primavera P6 preferred; MS Project a plus)
- Strong understanding of construction sequencing, critical path methodology (CPM), and resource planning
- Proven ability to work across multiple projects and teams
- Demonstrated leadership or mentoring experience
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Preferred Experience
- Experience in transmission, distribution, or power infrastructure projects
- Familiarity with large-scale EPC or utility projects
What You'll Get
Benefits:
We offer an extremely competitive and comprehensive benefits package including:
- PTO that starts accruing DAY 1
- 401K Immediate Vesting; employer match starting same day
- Several medical plan options
- Dental and Vision benefits
- Life insurance, short term & long-term disability
- Paid Holidays
- Employee discounts, EAP and Wellness Program
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