Project Controls Manager

Own the numbers behind Solx's multi-year capital expansion program in Puerto Rico. As the founding project-controls leader for the build-out, you'll establish the cost, schedule, change, and risk systems the entire program runs on — and make sure that what the field reports, what contractors invoice, and what the capital forecast says all reconcile to one set of numbers. This is a build-it-from-zero role for someone who believes project controls is a decision-support function, not a reporting function: your analysis will drive contingency decisions, contractor negotiations, and executive and board reporting on a program of consequence. Reports directly to the VP, Capital Projects.

What you'll do

• Establish and run the program's project-controls system: work breakdown structure, cost breakdown structure, budget and schedule baselines, and change control.
• Develop and maintain the integrated master schedule; perform critical-path and float analysis; independently review and challenge contractor-developed schedules.
• Own cost management end to end — commitments, expenditures, accruals, cash flow, contingency drawdown, and cost-at-completion forecasting.
• Run progress measurement and earned value; verify contractor progress claims against physical completion before payment is certified.
• Administer change control from trend identification through change-order pricing review and baseline revision.
• Build and maintain the program risk register; run quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis to size and defend contingency.
• Produce executive-, lender-, and board-level reporting: variance analysis, forecast versus baseline, and the narrative that explains both.
• Support estimating, bid analysis, and commercial evaluation for contractor and OEM selection.
• Partner with Finance on capitalization, capital forecasting, and the documentation supporting incentive eligibility (Section 45X, 48C, Act 60, domestic content).
• Establish document control and the data standards that keep cost, schedule, and field progress reconciled to a single source of truth.
• Build, train, and lead the project-controls team as the program scales.

What you bring

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, quantity surveying, finance, or a closely related discipline.
• 10+ years in project controls on large capital programs, including cost and schedule ownership on at least one project of $250M or greater.
• Deep expertise in earned value management, progress measurement, and cost-at-completion forecasting.
• Expert-level scheduling in Primavera P6 or equivalent, including independent critical-path and float analysis on contractor schedules.
• Demonstrated ownership of change control and contingency management on an active capital program.
• Strong contract literacy — you can read a construction contract and know immediately what it does to the cost report.
• Advanced Excel and working fluency with cost-management or ERP systems.
• The ability to present cost and schedule reality to executives clearly, early, and without softening it.
• Willingness to be based on-site in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico for the duration of the build.
• Bilingual English/Spanish a plus.
• Owner's-side project controls on greenfield high-tech manufacturing — semiconductor, advanced electronics, battery, or comparable cleanroom facilities — preferred.
• Quantitative risk analysis experience, including Monte Carlo cost and schedule modeling (Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran, Acumen), preferred.
• AACE certification (CCP, PSP, EVP) or equivalent preferred.
• Experience building a project-controls or PMO function from scratch at a scaling company preferred.
• Experience with lender- and investor-facing reporting on project-financed capital programs, including independent engineer interfaces, preferred.
• Familiarity with U.S. clean-energy manufacturing incentives (Section 45X, 48C) and domestic-content documentation requirements preferred.
• Experience delivering projects in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, or other island or logistics-constrained environments (including Jones Act considerations) preferred.