Assistant Vice President, Project Controls Manager

This Opportunity 

WSP is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Project Controls Manager to join our Federal Project Controls Team in Arlington, VA.  Be involved in projects with our Federal Programs Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our clients’ objectives and solves their challenges.

Your Impact 

Job Duties:

• Manage the Federal Project Controls function, and support clients to include USACE, NAVFAC, and other federal clients.
• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of program-wide project controls processes, procedures, governance frameworks, and systems in collaboration with the client and PM.
• Ensure effective integration of cost, schedule, risk, and reporting disciplines to support program objectives.
• Serve as a contact for project controls matters, aligning closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure consistency and transparency in reporting and controls.
• Oversee enterprise-level dashboards to monitor program health and provide real-time insights into key performance indicators (KPIs), risk exposure, trends, and variances.
• Establish and enforce robust cost control procedures across all projects and program elements, enabling proactive tracking of budgets, forecasting, variance analysis, and identification of cost optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to evaluate design and execution options, providing strategic recommendations to improve cost-effectiveness and value delivery.
• Integrate cost and schedule management practices, ensuring accurate earned value management (EVM), performance measurement, and predictive analytics across the program lifecycle.
• Provide clear, timely, and actionable reports and presentations on cost and schedule performance to senior leadership, stakeholders, and the client, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Contribute to project and program-level meetings focused on risk, change control, performance, and strategic planning, ensuring alignment with controls best practices.
• Lead the development and maintenance of comprehensive financial reporting across all work packages and subprojects, including roll-up reports, cash flow analysis, and funding status.
• Monitor funding allocations and procurement plans to ensure alignment with approved budgets and program funding strategies.
• Manage the program’s change control processes, including assessment of cost and schedule impacts of proposed changes, and provide guidance on mitigation strategies.
• Oversee the preparation and validation of program estimates, budgets, forecasts, cost trends, and estimates to complete (ETC), ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and funding profiles.

Who You Are

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or equivalent.
• 10+ years of project controls experience involving Federal clients and projects.

• Extensive knowledge of cost estimating methodologies, cost control techniques, schedule management best practices, critical path method scheduling and budgetary control systems.

• Knowledge and understanding of engineering requirements, program policies, and procedures by which the Authority is governed.
• Excellent leadership skills and experience in preliminary and final design and procedure government projects.
• Ability to interface with clients and participate in business development initiatives. 
• Excellent communication skills, written, oral and interpersonal skills to deal with a high-pressure environment. 
• Ability to independently organize and carry out assignments with minimum direction as well as to function effectively as a leader of highly professional personnel.
• Experience in preparing project reports and documentation.
• Experience in establishing project control systems and procedures.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of project management, to coordinate, review and provide expert technical management for the assigned projects.
• Knowledge of project controls software such as COBRA, PRISM, Procore, InEight desired.
• Hands on experience with ORACLE PRIMAVERA P6 and Power BI.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
• Knowledge and understanding of Federal, state, and local administration regulations and policies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management, schedule or cost management training or certification through Project Management Institute (PMI) or American Association of Cost Engineers (AACE) or other relevant industry organizations.
• Ability to obtain a US government security clearance.

• Knowledge of Earned Value Management Criteria and methods.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings. 

Compensation:

Expected Salary (all locations): $143,600 - $210,00

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.