Project Controls Lead

Responsibilities

• Provide project controls leadership for multiple prime contractors delivering site enabling works, underground utilities, buildings, and logistics services
• Manage the integration of disparate contractor schedules into an owner-level integrated master schedule, resolving logic conflicts and interface gaps
• Oversee the consolidation of cost and physical progress data from contractors with varying levels of project controls and PMIS maturity
• Lead interface management to identify and resolve spatial clashes, access conflicts, and schedule domino-effects between concurrent work fronts
• Define and enforce fit-for-purpose project controls requirements tailored to contract type and risk profile
• Ensure consistent work breakdown structures and coding alignments across primes to support portfolio-level reporting and analytics
• Coordinate with field, engineering, logistics, and HSE teams to align execution plans and milestones
• Prepare consolidated reporting and dashboards on schedule, cost, and progress performance for leadership and stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical field
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in project controls for large capital projects
• Specific experience managing multi-prime contract environments and complex site infrastructure logistics
• Proven ability to manage interfaces between multiple independent contractors, including spatial clash resolution and schedule interactions
• Demonstrated experience aggregating and normalizing progress, schedule, and cost data from multiple sources
• Proficiency with enterprise project management and collaboration platforms such as Procore or Aconex

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on large industrial, infrastructure, or campus-style developments
• Familiarity with integrated project controls environments and portfolio-level reporting
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail in validating multi-source data
• Professional certification in project controls, project management, or cost engineering (e.g., CCP, PSP, PMP)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance and flexible work schedules

About the Company

Founded in 1944, Parsons Corporation is a digitally enabled solutions provider focused on creating the future of the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets. We deliver tomorrow’s solutions today through an agile, innovative, and disruptive approach.