Director, Project Controls

Terawatts headquarters is located in San Francisco CA; this is a hybrid role where candidates must live in the SF Bay area.

The Director Project Controls serves as the primary audit controls and financial partner for Terawatts Site Delivery organization. This role bridges construction operations and corporate finance combining hands-on project controls expertise (cost tracking schedule integration change management) with FP&A-level rigor (auditing variance analysis rolling forecasts capital planning and executive reporting).

This role exists to ensure our project budgets forecasts and schedules are accurate and current across our nationwide portfolio. Managing project cost and schedule status across complex real estate acquisitions utility interconnections and high-voltage construction projects requires a high level of attention to detail collaboration with many teams and the ability to keep up with a large volume of changes. Assessing schedule and budget variances is of increasing importance given the scale of Terawatts portfolio and capital deployment.

The Director Project Controls will work in close collaboration with Terawatts Site Delivery organization.

• Audit and reconcile project budgets commitments actual spend work in progress (WIP) and forecast at completion (FAC) across all active development sites. Categorize budget variances by root cause (scope changes vendor overruns utility escalation estimating errors or carrying cost slips) rather than just flagging that spend is off.

• Establish and enforce review cadences checklists and sign-off gates. Maintain the Project Change Order log pressure testing scope changes budget impacts and vendor proposals before routing for approval.

• Partner with FP&A and Accounting to reconcile site-level actuals and prepare corporate reporting. Oversee development draw requests manage review/coding of monthly contractor pay applications (AIA G702/G703 standards lien waivers) and assist with cash flow projections and draw schedules.

• For identified budget contract and schedule discrepancies ensure findings are addressed escalated and closed out on a defined timeline.

• Own and maintain the Plan of Record (currently in Smartsheet) as the trusted single source of truth for project schedules.

• Design processes to surface schedule updates in near-real time lead weekly project reviews and hold PMs accountable for schedule hygiene.

• Conduct regular schedule variance and critical path analyses to flag risks early providing cross functional teams with updated information.

• Partner with Supply Chain/Procurement to monitor long-lead equipment deliveries (transformers switchgear fast-chargers) and balance internal/vendor resource demands to safeguard key milestones.

• Develop and maintain real-time dashboards to keep leadership and Board informed with audit-ready reporting; prepare board-level and executive reporting packages.

• Develop and implement Site Delivery Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) RACI assignments and Playbook documentation. Initiate cost/schedule benchmarking regimes based on audit findings.

• Design and deliver project controls training for new hires. Maintain unified communications on project budget and schedule status across Finance Sales BD Technology and Operations teams.

• Bachelors degree in Construction Management Finance Accounting Economics or a related quantitative field

• 9 years of progressive experience in project controls cost/schedule audit capital project management and/or financial analysis FP&A or corporate finance/cost accounting for complex capital projects

• Experience with construction accounting principles project finance mechanics AIA billing processes (G702/G703 standards) lien waivers and EPC/GC contracting structures.

• Advanced-level budget building and tracking; ability to build maintain and track large-scale capital project budgets at the line item and overall portfolio levels identifying and communicating variance drivers.

• Advanced Excel skills (data modeling variance visualization). Experience working with modern construction and financial software platforms (e.g. Procore Yardi NetSuite MRI or Sage 300 CRE).

• Ability to translate complex financial and schedule variance data into plain-language actionable advice for non-finance operational partners (site engineers project managers and utility coordinators) helping them make better financial decisions.

• Experience using data visualization tools and dashboards to drive communication and reporting.

• You exercise independent judgment and can deliver unwelcome variance or audit findings to project owners and leadership clearly and stand behind them under pressure.

• You have exceptional attention to detail and curiosity; you dig beneath high-level summaries into schedule logic and line-item actuals to identify root causes.

• You can get project managers and external vendors to adopt new processes and follow those we have.

• You take ownership and navigate ambiguity in high-growth fast-paced environments.

• Background in EV charging infrastructure utility-scale power generation data centers renewable energy (solar wind storage) or heavy civil/commercial construction preferred

• Professional certifications such as Certified Cost Professional (CCP) Certified Cost Associate (CCA) Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) PMP CAPM or AACE credentials.