Construction Controls Manager
Job Summary
The Construction Controls Manager will oversee regional construction financial performance, managing budgets, schedules, and cash flow for large-scale capital projects. This role serves as a key liaison between Finance and construction teams to drive operational efficiency and risk mitigation. The position requires a strategic professional to ensure financial transparency and accurate reporting across diverse high-tech manufacturing projects.
Responsibilities
- Manage construction budgets, schedules, and cash flow
- Liaise between Finance and construction teams
- Ensure capital allocation compliance and governance
- Monitor project risks and performance metrics
- Develop cost estimates and financial forecasts
Required Skills
- Construction project controls
- Financial management & reporting
- Data visualization and AI tools
- Quantity surveying
- Capital expenditure oversight
Job Details
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a key liaison between Finance and construction teams
- Partner with our global team of regional Construction Controllers
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration
- Attend construction project meetings to collect real time views of progress, risks, and opportunities
- Highlight opportunities to reduce risk and improve cost, schedule, and cashflow
Financial Management & Reporting:
- Generate and maintain project dashboards on construction cost, schedule, cashflow and risk
- Ensure accurate reporting of actual and forecast values. Evaluate and explain variances
- Maintain financial transparency across construction projects
Budgeting & Forecasting:
- Partner with construction teams to develop accurate baseline and forecasted costs
- Validate estimates and improve forecast accuracy
- Collect and maintain historical data including costs, schedules, and scope
- Drive for best-in-class construction and facility cost by understanding competitive benchmarks and internal objectives
Capital Governance:
- Improve capital allocation processes compliance (e.g. initial approvals and change management) to achieve greater value for the company
- Develop budget walks and lessons learned with construction teams during project execution and at project completion
- Leverage and align construction and capital finance tools (Procore, SAP, Snowflake)
Compliance & Controls:
- Ensure adherence with Micron construction processes across jurisdictions
- Participate in project control improvement efforts leveraging best practices
- Analyze project data and reports to identify risks and opportunities
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in construction, Engineering, Accounting and Finance
- 5 or more years of experience in construction project controls or quantity surveying, financial management focused on construction (e.g. estimating, scheduling, cost control, earned value, risk management)
- Proficiency in analytical, data visualization tools with clear demonstrated use of AI Tools
- Experience overseeing financial expenditure on large capital programs in manufacturing, semiconductor, or high-tech industries
Preferred Qualification:
- Ambitious, intellectually curious, high-energy level, passionate about identifying and implementing improvement opportunities
- Ability to perform in an environment characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement
- Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships
- Organized and meticulous, with a strong focus on accuracy
- Experience within or exposure to finance, accounting, financial controlling
- MBA a plus