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Project Controls Manager (Construction, Houston, TX) - Austin Industrial

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Location
Houston, TX
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Project Controls Manager supports project administration, cost performance, and planning and scheduling across projects. The role monitors project controls systems, supports mobilization and closeout, audits control systems, and helps project teams prepare for audits. It also reviews cost and labor reports, evaluates productivity, and supports document control and contractual notice processes.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Project ControlsProject AdministrationProject Management SoftwareSchedulingDocument ControlLump Sum ProjectsReimbursable Projects

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Technical Field4+ Years Project Administration

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Description

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Administration & Planning

  • Operations related training

  • Monitor project controls system on projects

  • Provide project mobilization and closeout support

  • Audit the project’s control systems and ensure compliance with policy

  • Assist project teams in preparing for successful audits

  • Establish a document control process for the project including RFIs, submittals, correspondence, and meeting notes. Provide support for the document control process throughout the project

  • Periodic confirmation that project teams are making contractual notices timely

  • Report on untimely issuance of subcontracts

  • Setup company standard quantity tracking system

  • Ability to develop and maintain the trust of the subcontractors, ownership, and design team

  • Effective working relationships with subcontractors and suppliers

Cost Performance

  • Assist and review project reporting is in accordance with corporate guidelines

  • Analyze job cost statements and report on areas of poor cost performance

  • Review Labor Cost Reports at regular intervals and provide overall feedback to Operations

  • Review weekly man-hour productivity from Heavy Job and evaluate anomalies

Planning/Scheduling

  • Assist and review project planning and scheduling is in accordance with corporate guidelines

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Experience

  • Minimum of four years of project administration experience

  • Understand and be able to train on company software (e.g., Project

  • Management, Scheduling, Document Control)

  • Administrative competency in Lump Sum and Reimbursable projects

Benefits & Compensation

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about our employee-ownership structure, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/100-employee-owned .

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) and Spanish (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRightsSp6.12.pdf) .

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial .

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( i.e. , payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

Accessibility Note

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.

For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,677 open Project Controls jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Texas median$103–159K/yr108 salary ranges
  • US median$29–38/hr71 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 256 open Project Controls jobs in Texas and 2,677 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Project Controls postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,405 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 798 of the 2,677 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 28, 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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