Project Controls Lead – Field Change & Risk

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Job Description

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Project Controls Lead – Field Change & Risk to join our team! In this role you will serve as the primary technical firewall against scope creep and lead tactical risk and opportunity assurance, focusing on field changes, commercial impacts, and risk mitigation to provide uncompromised commercial protection and decision-support for the owner.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Acting as the on-site lead for field change management, ensuring that all changes are rigorously evaluated for technical scope, quantities, schedule, and cost impacts
• Performing forensic reviews of Contractor Variation Orders and Potential Change Orders to validate entitlement, installed quantities, and schedule impact
• Leading the risk management process, including identification, assessment, and ownership of project risks and opportunities
• Conducting qualitative and quantitative risk analyses, including Monte Carlo simulations and schedule risk analysis, to support contingency and forecast reviews
• Establishing and enforcing governance for contingency usage, auditing contractor execution contingency and owner management reserve drawdowns
• Preparing clear recommendations and decision-support packages for leadership on disputed changes, claims, and risk response strategies
• Collaborating with project controls, contracts, and field teams to ensure change and risk data is integrated into cost and schedule forecasts
• Maintaining an independent view of commercial exposure and risk posture, separate from the monthly progress reporting cycle
  
  
  

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or Commercial Law, or equivalent
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in cost engineering, change management, and contracts administration on major industrial mega-projects
• Demonstrated forensic capability to interrogate technical scope, installed quantity accuracy, and schedule entitlement of contractor changes
• Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative risk management, including experience with Monte Carlo simulations and schedule risk analysis
• Strong understanding of contingency structures, including the distinction between contractor execution contingency and owner management reserve, with experience auditing contingency drawdowns
  
  
  

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

• Professional certifications such as those from AACE (e.g., CCP, CCT, EVP)
• Experience supporting dispute resolution, claims analysis, or commercial negotiations on large capital projects
• Familiarity with common contract forms used on large industrial or infrastructure projects
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize technical and commercial data into clear recommendations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to challenge stakeholders constructively and diplomatically
  
  
  

Security Clearance Requirement

None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

Salary Range: $103,500.00 - $181,100.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

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