This role will support projects throughout the Greater West and report out of our Reno, NV 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 7 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

 

• Bachelors 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
• Identity Theft Protection and so much more!