Project Controls Manager
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The Project Controls Manager leads controls for HNTB’s Metro Nashville Choose How You Move program, a transportation modernization initiative. The role oversees project controls staff and disciplines including scheduling, estimating, risk and change management, document control, budget tracking, reporting, and project controls systems. It works with program leadership, subconsultants, the client, and stakeholders to support delivery on time, on budget, with quality and client satisfaction.
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What We're Looking For
At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
The Project Controls Manager leads all aspects of controls in support of HNTB’s efforts for the Metro Nashville Choose How You Move (CHYM) program. CHYM is Nashville's multi-billion-dollar voter-approved plan to modernize transportation and give everyone safer, more reliable ways to get around. Implementation is underway, delivering practical investments in safety, reliability, and access that work for everyone, whether you walk, roll, ride, bike, or drive.
Oversees project controls for the CHYM program and ensures 4 for 4 – quality work, on time, on budget, and to the client’s satisfaction. Works closely with the Program Director, Deputy Directors, subconsultants, client, and stakeholders to successfully execute on all aspects of controls, including scheduling, estimation, risk management, change management, document controls, budget tracking, reporting, and supporting implementation of a Capital Project Management System.
What You’ll Do:
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Establishes and manages the project controls staff assigned to the project, including budget/cost estimating, scheduling, document control and information systems, risk management and claims analysis functions.
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Creates, edits, and publishes guidelines, manuals, and documents for use by Project staff including the Project Management Plan, Project Controls Manual and Monthly Project Progress Reports.
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Develops and maintains relevant project controls procedures and work instructions.
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Supervises the scheduling efforts for the project to include the preparation and analysis of schedule baseline, progress schedules, specialty schedules, schedule analysis and project progress reporting.
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Assists in or directs the preparation of specialty schedules, project labor forecasts, and cash flows.
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Supervises the cost efforts of the project to include guidance and oversight of the cost management system, preparation of cost report templates, and issue of monthly Cost and Change Management report deliverables.
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Analyzes variances in cost and schedule performance and design/construction changes against the baseline estimate and schedule, communicates reasons for variances to relevant management entities. Identifies trends and deviations and recommends corrective courses of action. Recommends solutions or recovery plans for schedule/cost impacts or delays.
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Manages and maintains the implementation and utilization of project controls systems necessary to support the project including but not limited to; PMCS, doc control, cost and scheduling systems.
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Develops and maintains a cost estimating capability and supervises the estimating efforts for the project to include developing construction estimates, preparing independent cost estimates, and supporting scenario analysis.
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Oversees development and maintenance of an automated system that allows for the efficient capturing, storing, retrieval, and reporting of technical and business information including cost and schedule status.
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Supervises the Document Control efforts of the project including the administration, filing, and archiving of engineering, procurement, and construction documents, reports, deliverables, invoices, and other business policies and procedures.
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Develops and produces weekly, monthly and special reports in a timely manner for the client and PM staff to monitor progress and status of the project, including input from contractor.
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Prepares PM for internal and external meetings by providing reports, analysis, and backup documentation to assist in the management of the project and dissemination of information/reports/deliverables to the PM, client, and stakeholders.
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May be responsible for the recruitment, hiring, development and retention of staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation reviews, and succession for a small to medium size project controls section or department within an office
What You’ll Need:
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Bachelor's degree in relevant field and 8 years of relevant experience, or
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In lieu of education, 12 years of relevant experience
What We Prefer:
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5 years Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) or Architecture & Engineering (A&E) project controls experience including two or more of the following: scheduling, cost estimating/budget control, and document control
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Project Controls experience in two or more phases of project lifecycle (e.g., predesign, design, procurement, construction, and post-construction phases)
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Project Controls experience working as client's PM/CM agent (e.g., providing program management/construction management services), or as part of design-build contractor (or equivalent design and construction experience)
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Proven experience leading the full suite of project controls disciplines (document controls, scheduling, risk management, financial management, CPMS, etc.) on a major program management or general engineering consultant contract.
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Proven experience coordinating with client leadership to successfully discover and deliver client needs by listening well.
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Collaborative approach to partnering with teammates and the client to deliver a multi-discipline program.
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Preference for location in or ability to relocate to the Nashville area.
Additional Information
Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards
Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Locations:
Nashville, TN (City Center)
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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:
HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.
Job Type: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full time
Job Category: Project Controls Group
ReqID: R-32146
How this job compares
Set against the 2,665 open Project Controls jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Tennessee median$90–159K/yr29 salary ranges
- US median$29–38/hr70 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 55 open Project Controls jobs in Tennessee and 2,665 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Tennessee
- CDM Smith19 open
- Kiewit5 open
- Hargrove Engineers & Constructors4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Project Controls postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,394 postings).
- Education
- 803 of the 2,665 open Project Controls jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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