Capital Project Controls Lead
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 30383, USA
Listed on 2026-01-12
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Engineering
Engineering Design & Technologists, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineer, Operations Manager
Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is currently recruiting for a Large Capital Projects Controls Lead to support the Project Services team for the Corporate Projects and Engineering Group. This group consists of individuals across the United States working with our manufacturing facilities on capital project execution. The Large Capital Projects Controls Lead will be responsible for the overall success of the project controls and other services on projects they are assigned.
They will be leading estimating, cost management, overall project reporting, scheduling, risk management, document control, change management, and project best practices. This person will be a leader that will drive the project controls.
Remote position with travel involved. The amount of travel would be up to 50% dependent on business needs.
Our TeamOur team is made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds supporting project services capabilities across the Georgia Pacific Organization. The project Services team builds and strengthens relationships with industry wide partners to successfully execute projects throughout the United States. Our team is comprised of project controls leads and capability leaders supporting project proven practices during front end load through closeout.
What You Will Do- Lead Project Controls capability on a group of projects in Georgia‑Pacific to achieve superior project results
- Responsible to manage the development and implementation of an effective Project Controls capability on a group of projects to support capital project execution, including developing and executing the plan for estimating, scheduling, cost engineering, metrics, reporting, workload resource planning, risk management, document controls, and facilitate best practices sessions.
- Responsible for identifying and implementing project controls tools and enablers, by partnering with the project team
- Responsible for providing change management tools and processes for capital project teams, and additionally supporting the review process of project changes
- Partner with Sourcing to implement strategies and manage relationships with contractors and 3rd party providers of project controls resources
- Ensure project controls talent is sufficient on each project to ensure successful implementation of the Project Controls Plan
- Knowledge share with other leaders across the business to benchmark, identify, and implement innovation opportunities in project controls
- Perform project controls functions during front end loading, including schedule creation, establishing the work breakdown structure, establishing the risk log, ensuring document control structures are established, and facilitating best practice meetings.
- Travel up to 50% of the time to lead and participate in project meetings onsite, in engineering offices, key OEM & Contractor locations, and GP locations.
- Seven (7) or more years of project controls or project management experience
- Experience leading project controls on projects over $25MM
- Project controls leadership experience
- Experience using Microsoft Word to create and edit documents, Excel to create spreadsheets, and Outlook for email correspondence
- Hands on scheduling experience (P6 & Microsoft Project)
- Versed in industry project controls best practices in the areas of cost management, scheduling, risk management, change management, estimating, earned value management, reporting, & document controls.
- Able to travel up to 50% of the time
- 10+ years project controls experience in a manufacturing, power, refining, or chemical environment
- Experience leading project controls on projects over $100MM
- Experience using Primavera and MS Project scheduling software
- Experience using Ecosys EPPM software
- Experience working with Autodesk Construction Cloud or Autodesk Build
- Experience working with risk analysis tools such as @Risk
- Experience working with multiple ERP systems including SAP
- Project Management Practices (PMP) and/or ACCE Certifications
- Experience working on large projects in the pulp & paper, power, refining / chemical, and heavy manufacturing industries
For this role, we anticipate paying $125,000 - $175,000 (USD) per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
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