COMPANY OVERVIEW
Upchurch is a rapidly growing, full-service building engineering company providing mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical services across the southeastern United States. Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Horn Lake, MS, Upchurch has grown through both organic expansion and strategic acquisitions, establishing a strong reputation for quality, reliability, and service excellence. We offer end-to-end solutions—from design and installation to ongoing maintenance and emergency support—helping clients maximize building performance, energy efficiency, and equipment lifespan.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Project Controls Manager provides leadership for project controls across assigned construction projects. This role has responsibility for project controls budgets, forecasting, cost performance, and financial reporting; serves as a project-controls liaison with owners and project stakeholders; and leads, develops, and oversees schedulers and project controls professionals. The position implements consistent standards, ensures reliable schedule and cost information, identifies and mitigates performance risks, and provides actionable insight that supports informed business decisions and successful project outcomes.
Essential Duties:
The essential duties below are intended to summarize the primary responsibilities of the position and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or activities that may be required.
· Manage project controls fiscal activities for assigned projects, including project controls budgets, cost baselines, forecasts, estimate-at-completion projections, cash-flow reporting, variance analysis, and financial performance recommendations.
· Serve as the project controls representative in owner meetings, presenting schedule, cost, risk, change, and performance information; resolving concerns; and aligning reporting expectations and recovery strategies.
· Lead, assign, and review the work of schedulers and project controls staff across assigned projects; establish priorities, balance resources, coach team members, and ensure timely, accurate deliverables.
· Implement project controls standards and accountability for schedule and cost performance, including review of baselines, forecasts, reporting packages, corrective-action plans, and project controls procedures; coordinate required approvals with project leadership.
· Develop, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules in Primavera P6, including baselines, logic, milestones, resource loading, and critical path activities, to provide a reliable framework for project execution and performance measurement.
· Establish and maintain cost baselines, budgets, and forecasts to provide clear financial performance targets and support effective project cost control.
· Collect, validate, and integrate project progress, labor, cost, procurement, and field data to ensure project controls information is accurate, timely, and reliable.
· Monitor project performance against approved schedules, budgets, forecasts, and productivity expectations and assess related risks to identify emerging issues before they materially affect project outcomes.
· Analyze schedule logic, float, critical path impacts, labor productivity, resource utilization, earned value metrics, and cost trends to identify performance drivers and recommend corrective action.
· Develop recovery plans, mitigation strategies, and scenario analyses with project teams to address schedule delays, cost pressures, resource constraints, and other execution risks.
· Evaluate scope changes, change orders, and evolving project conditions for schedule, cost, and resource impacts to support informed change management and customer decisions.
· Prepare and present dashboards, forecasts, schedule updates, variance analyses, and performance metrics to provide project teams and leadership with clear, actionable visibility into project health.
· Collaborate with project managers,…