Clayton Services is hiring: Project Control Manager in Houston

Clayton Services is searching for a Project Controls Manager to join a thriving company in Houston, Texas. The Project Controls Manager will be responsible for owning the integrated schedule, cost/change control, progress measurement, and the data model that ties them together. This role involves collecting and organizing information from multiple disciplines and suppliers, maintaining a single source of truth, and driving clear, timely decisions using MS Project and MS Excel.

Job Type: Direct Hire

Pay Rate: $110,000-$130,000/year

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO, stock options, and more.

Project Controls Manager Responsibilities:

• Lead schedule reviews with partners and vendors; challenge logic, durations, and progress claims.
• Capture lessons learned, improve templates, and checklists.
• Support contracting strategies (deliverables, milestones, reporting) and readiness for significant events (IFD/IFC, PO placement, and module shipment).
• Coordinate handoffs across Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, and Logistics to resolve interface risks early.
• Maintain risk/issue registers and ensure mitigations are reflected in plans and forecasts.
• Produce weekly dashboards and management reviews with clear variance narratives and trend analysis.
• Build and maintain a fully logic-linked, resource-aware master schedule in MS Project covering engineering, procurement, fabrication, logistics, construction, and commissioning.
• Run change control and quantify schedule/cost impacts with auditable logs.
• Align logistics milestones (Incoterms, carrier bookings, permits, customs, laydown/warehouse) with the master schedule.
• Collect, clean, reconcile, and organize data from internal teams and vendors (deliverables lists, RFIs, equipment lists/MTOs, expediting, FAT/SAT, shipment readiness).
• Set up WBS/CBS, calendars, codes, and progress rules of credit; establish and manage baselines.
• Support cost control in Excel (budgets, commitments, forecasts, contingencies) and deliver monthly cost/schedule reports.
• Other duties as assigned.

Project Controls Manager Skills and Abilities:

• Analytical rigor with a strong ownership mindset.
• Collaborative vendor/contractor engagement and situational communication.
• Systems thinking and effective interface management.
• Proactive risk identification and disciplined change control.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, including concise variance explanations.

Project Controls Manager Education and Experience:

• Experience working on capital projects (industrial process, energy, chemicals, or related).
• Intermediate to expert MS Project skills (integrated schedules, baselines, resource loading, critical path/float, what-if analysis).
• Intermediate to expert MS Excel skills (advanced formulas, pivots, lookups/index-match, data modeling, probabilistic models).
• Practical understanding of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Logistics, Construction, and Commissioning.
• Strong information management skills: able to collect and organize data from multiple sources into clear trackers and reports.
• Clear written and verbal communication with the ability to provide concise variance explanations and lead meetings.
• Logistics experience (heavy haul, modules, packaged equipment, international shipments, customs/permits, laydown planning) is preferred.
• Syngas/industrial gas or related process-plant experience is preferred.
• Exposure to risk analysis and stage-gate processes is preferred.
• Familiarity with tools like SharePoint/OneDrive, ERP, Power BI, or Primavera P6 literacy is preferred.
• Cost estimating experience is preferred.
• Document control experience is preferred.
• Experience in supply chain and contract management is preferred.

Project Controls Manager - Immediate need. Apply today!