Mid Level Project Controls Manager Jobs
Mid level project controls manager jobs go to professionals ready to own cost, schedule, and performance baselines end to end, guide junior analysts, and deliver reporting that drives project decisions with minimal oversight. Openings run across Consulting & Professional Services, Construction & Real Estate, and Technology & Software, with 29% offering remote or hybrid schedules, and employers like Aegis Project Controls, Burns & McDonnell, and ENTRUST Solutions hiring at this level now.
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Job Description
In Project Controls, our goal is to ensure the right rigor around schedule and cost management processes to deliver projects on-time and within budget. With focus and rigor around tools, processes, operating rhythm, and people, here you shall have the opportunity to learn, contribute and excel in one of the best Project controls functions in the industry. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.
Mission
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Overall
- Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates
- Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools
- Ensures compliance to the Global Standard process for Project Controls
- Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
- Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project
- Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team
- Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks
- Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
- Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
- Communicates schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
- Provides internal and external project reporting of project status
- Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules
- Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status
- Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate
- Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation
- Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
- Support project close out and claims
- Provide support to tenders
- Oversee the planning function on the project
- Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.
- Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
- Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost
- Ensure alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)
- Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.
Quality & Lean
- Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function
- Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner
- Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements
EHS
- Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions
- Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions
- Ensure safety work instructions are complied
- Participate in the resolution of safety issues.
- Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed
Performance Measurement
- Schedule quality
- Cost forecasting quality
- Schedule forecast quality
- Cost and schedule performance of project
- Timeliness of reporting
Qualifications & Experience
Educational Requirements
Degree qualified either in finance or may have engineering degree (with financial training)
Desired Knowledge & Experience
5+ years planning large turnkey projects
2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects
Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects
Deep domain knowledge of planning and use of Primavera
Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects
Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects
Additional Information
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $87,000.00 and $145,000.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on August 13, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
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Who's Hiring
- Aegis Project Controls13

- Burns & McDonnell8

- ENTRUST Solutions7

- General Dynamics Information Technology4

- CARIAN3

Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services41
- Construction & Real Estate32
- Technology & Software15
- Manufacturing12
- Energy7
Mid Level Project Controls Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level project controls manager job?
Position yourself around ownership, not just execution. Highlight experience managing earned value, maintaining cost and schedule baselines independently, and producing reports that influenced real project decisions. Tailor your resume to show you've moved beyond following a process into owning one. Certifications like PMI-SP or AACE CCP strengthen your application, and quantifying cost or schedule variance you caught and corrected makes your impact concrete.
Which companies hire mid level project controls managers?
Companies hiring mid level project controls managers right now include Aegis Project Controls, Burns & McDonnell, and ENTRUST Solutions, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Hiring at this level covers large engineering and construction firms, energy and infrastructure developers, defense contractors, and owner organizations running capital programs that require dedicated schedule and cost oversight.
Are there remote mid level project controls manager jobs?
Yes, though site-based and hybrid roles still dominate. About 29% of mid level project controls manager openings are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, concentrated in roles where reporting, forecasting, and tool administration can be handled off site. Fully remote positions tend to appear more often with larger firms running distributed project portfolios.
How do I move up to a mid level project controls manager role?
Progression from entry level to mid level comes from building depth in core disciplines over your first few years: mastering scheduling tools like Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project, taking ownership of a full cost or schedule baseline rather than just updating it, and demonstrating that your analysis shaped a project decision. Documenting measurable impact, such as variance identified or recovery plans developed, signals readiness for mid level responsibility.
Which industries hire the most mid level project controls managers?
Mid Level project controls manager roles concentrate in Consulting & Professional Services, Construction & Real Estate, and Technology & Software, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These sectors run large, multi-year capital programs where rigorous earned value management, change control, and schedule performance reporting are required at every stage of delivery.