Overview

NexGen is looking to add a Project Controls Manager to their growing team.

Responsibilities

Why NexGen?

NexGen Contracting, the self-perform arm of Gray, is based in Franklin, TN, and specializes in executing turnkey project scopes, including concrete, steel, millwright, and finishes. NexGen is fully integrated with Gray Construction and serves as a preferred subcontractor. The NexGen team is made of career, trade-specific professionals, and core craftsmen with decades of experience who are dedicated to meeting our customers’ unique needs.

Position Overview:The Project Controls Manager plays a pivotal leadership role within the Concrete Division, responsible for overseeing project controls, cost management, scheduling, risk analysis, document controls processes, and compliance functions. This position requires a strategic thinker with a robust understanding of project management principles, who can drive project success through effective controls, team collaboration, and adherence to compliance standards.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the project controls team, setting objectives and ensuring alignment with overall project and company goals.
• Develop and implement comprehensive project controls strategies and systems for tracking project performance, costs, schedules, and compliance with industry standards.
• Oversee the management of document controls processes, ensuring accurate and timely documentation, filing, and retrieval of all project-related documents.
• Perform key compliance functions, ensuring projects adhere to industry regulations, company standards, and contractual obligations.
• Collaborate with project management and finance teams to establish budgets, monitor expenditures, and manage project funding.
• Guide the scheduling of projects, ensuring timelines are realistic, achievable, and compliant with contractual deadlines.
• Conduct risk management activities, identifying potential project risks and developing mitigation strategies.
• Generate detailed reports on project status, including cost forecasts, schedule updates, compliance audits, and risk assessments for senior management.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the project controls function, leveraging best practices and innovative solutions to enhance project outcomes.
• Provide leadership and development opportunities to project controls team members, fostering a culture of excellence and professional growth.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in project controls management within the construction or related industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency in project management software (e.g., Procore, Timberline, Primavera, CMiC, etc.) and MS Office Suite, with advanced skills in Excel.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and manage teams effectively.
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
• Superior communication skills, capable of effectively engaging with all levels of management, staff, and external stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy and the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Willingness to travel occasionally (up to 20%) for project oversight and team collaboration.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the team member is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands and arms, reach, and talk or hear. They are regularly required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch. Must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 lbs, and occasionally lift or move up to 100 lbs. Specific vision abilities include accurate near and distant vision.

Frequently in a normal office environment where noise level is moderate and temperature/humidity is controlled. Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, and outside weather conditions. May be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold and/or heat, risk of electrical shock, explosives and vibrations. Noise level on the job site is normally moderate to loud. Overtime will be required. Travel will be required.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position does have supervisory responsibilities.

EEO Disclaimer

Gray is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes everyone to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.