# Real Estate Development Project Controls Manager

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,000.00 - $190,700.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

The Real Estate Development Project Controls Manager serves as the Owner's independent project controls lead for Project Talon, a large mixed-use project in downtown SLC.

Responsibilities:

**Schedule Management and Integration**

- Develop, maintain, and manage the Owner's Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) encompassing all major project activities from planning through occupancy.

- Maintain the Executive / Program Schedule used for executive reporting, governance, and strategic decision-making.

- Maintain the Development Schedule used to manage design, procurement, approvals, permitting, utilities, sustainability, funding, move management, activation, and other owner-led activities.

- Integrate major milestones and critical activities from the General Contractor's Construction Schedule into the Owner's Integrated Master Schedule.

- Monitor alignment between the Program Schedule, Development Schedule, and Construction Schedule and identify schedule conflicts, risks, and recovery opportunities.

**Project Controls and Performance Management**

- Establish and maintain project controls systems, processes, standards, and reporting protocols.

- Develop and monitor key project performance indicators and milestone tracking systems.

- Track progress against approved project objectives, schedules, budgets, and key milestones.

- Analyze project performance trends and provide recommendations for corrective actions.

**Risk Management**

- Lead development and maintenance of the project risk register.

- Identify schedule, delivery, procurement, commercial, operational, and execution risks.

- Facilitate risk workshops and coordination sessions with project stakeholders.

- Evaluate risk impacts and support development of mitigation strategies.

**Forecasting and Scenario Analysis**

- Develop and maintain project forecasts related to schedule performance and major milestones.

- Perform schedule risk assessments and scenario analyses.

- Evaluate potential impacts of project changes, delays, approvals, procurement activities, and external factors.

**Reporting and Governance**

- Prepare executive-level project controls reports, dashboards, and performance analyses.

- Present schedule, risk, forecasting, and performance recommendations to project leadership and executive stakeholders.

- Establish and maintain project controls governance procedures and reporting standards.

**Collaboration**

- Partner closely with the Development Manager to evaluate project alternatives, development strategies, and business decisions.

- Partner with the Design Lead to align design deliverables and project milestones with overall program objectives.

- Partner with Construction leadership to monitor schedule performance, milestone achievement, sequencing, and execution risks.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Project Management, Business, or related field.

- 8+ years of experience in project controls, program management, scheduling, construction management, development, or related disciplines.

- Experience on large-scale commercial, institutional, mixed-use, higher education, corporate headquarters, or comparable complex mixed use developments.

- Demonstrated expertise in project controls, scheduling, forecasting, risk management, performance reporting, and program delivery.

**Benefits**

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off

- 11 paid holidays

- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Primavera P6
- Microsoft Project
- Power BI
- Construction Management
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Scheduling
- Forecasting

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