Manager Project Controls in Casa Grande, Arizona at Ivanhoe Electric
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Ivanhoe Electric
Casa Grande, Arizona, 85122, United States
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Job Description
Summary of Primary FunctionsThe Manager of Project Controls is responsible for implementing and managing the integrated project controls system for the Santa Cruz Copper Project, ensuring the project is fully prepared for healthy, safe, predictable, and measurable construction execution.
This role is responsible for the integrity of cost, schedule, risk, change, and progress measurement across early works and underground development scopes. The Manager provides timely, accurate controls reporting to the General Manager - Construction and ensures the project is structurally ready for construction scale-up and execution.
The Manager maintains project performance measurement standards and baseline integrity across engineering and construction, while field execution, contractor management, and productivity remain the responsibility of the construction leadership team.
To support the hybrid integrated project team (IPT) delivery model:
This role is responsible for the integrity of cost, schedule, risk, change, and progress measurement across early works and underground development scopes. The Manager provides timely, accurate controls reporting to the General Manager - Construction and ensures the project is structurally ready for construction scale-up and execution.
The Manager maintains project performance measurement standards and baseline integrity across engineering and construction, while field execution, contractor management, and productivity remain the responsibility of the construction leadership team.
To support the hybrid integrated project team (IPT) delivery model:
- Project Controls owns measurement methodology, baseline governance, forecasting, and performance assurance.Construction leadership owns means, methods, and field execution.Director of Contractor Services owns contractor onboarding and performance management.Superintendent owns day-to-day field delivery and quantity validation.
The Manager operates as the owner’s independent performance function, not as the field execution lead.
Health & Safety
- Ivanhoe Electric Inc. is committed to a strong Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Program that protects the persons, property, and environment within our care from incidents. We believe that all incidents are preventable. Management, contractors, and all employees are collectively responsible for ensuring compliance with local government, occupational health, safety, and environmental regulations. Responsible for upholding and demonstrating the importance of the use and maintenance of Ivanhoe Electric’s cloud-based, digitized, and centralized health and safety systems.
- Working in a healthy and safe manner at all times and sets an example for others, in doing so:
- Participating in the review and use of appropriate health and safety policies, protocols, standard operating procedures (SOP), and job hazard assessments (JHA).Maintains work areas and equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE), in a neat, and tidy condition and in good working order.Wears PPE appropriate for the nature of work being performed at all times.Attends daily toolbox meetings and health and safety and operational planning sessions with site management.Supports appropriate health and safety personnel in the development of policies and procedures.Acts as a representative of the company as necessary or appropriate for any relevant agency inspections and interactions.
Key Responsibilities
- Construction Readiness & Baseline Governance
- Set up the project controls framework and confirm readiness prior to major construction spend.Maintain alignment of WBS, budgets, schedules, progress measurement, and reporting structures.Prepare formal readiness assessments and flag structural gaps to the General Manager - Construction and project leadership.
- Integrated Controls Systems & Performance Standards
- Manage integrated cost, schedule, risk, change, progress, and document control systems.Implement performance measurement standards, KPIs, and assurance routines across owner and contractors.Produce consistent, auditable reporting that supports leadership decision‑making.
- Schedule, Cost, Risk & Change Control
- Maintain the integrated master schedule and cost baseline, and lead regular forecasting.Run risk management and formal change control processes to ensure early warning and baseline integrity.Report on critical path, cost exposure, contingency, and emerging risks to project leadership.
- Contractor, Procurement & Logistics Integration
- Set and enforce contractor controls requirements and manage baseline approval processes.Integrate procurement, contracting, and logistics into cost, schedule, and risk baselines.Review contractor data quality, delivery risk, and reporting discipline, and escalate issues as needed.
- Quality, Information & Team Leadership
- Build and lead the project controls team with clear roles, standards, and accountability.Manage document management and quality systems to ensure auditable, compliant project records.Ensure quality, inspection, and turnover data are fully integrated into performance reporting.
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- Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline.Professional designation preferred (PE, PMP, AACE, or equivalent).7+ years of construction and capital project experience, including hands-on scheduling and cost control.Significant underground or heavy civil construction exposure.Experience in establishing project controls systems from the early project phase; project set-up from pre-construction preferred.Demonstrated owner-side or Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) major project experience.Significant hands-on Primavera P6 experience.Experience implementing cost control systems.Experience with multi-contractor delivery environments.
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Casa Grande, Arizona, 85122, United States
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