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About You and This Role
Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Project Controls Lead located in Houston, Texas!
At Dow, Project Controls is more than cost and schedule management. Our team provides the insights, discipline, and governance that enable better decisions, improve predictability, and help deliver capital investments safely, competitively, and successfully. As a Project Controls Lead, you will play a critical role in shaping project outcomes and creating value for the business through leadership, forecasting excellence, and proactive risk management.
In this role, you will serve as a key member of the Project Steering Team (PST) and Design Team, providing strategic leadership and technical expertise to drive safe, predictable, and competitive project outcomes. You will partner closely with Project Engineers, Design Teams, Construction, Procurement, and business stakeholders to integrate cost, schedule, risk, forecasting, and change management processes throughout the project lifecycle.
You will act as the Project Controls technical resource within Dow's Global Project Methodology (GPM) work process, leveraging project performance data and business insights to support informed decision-making. Success in this role requires a strong understanding of project drivers, business objectives, and Business Opportunity Plan (BOP) requirements, along with the ability to proactively identify risks, communicate insights, and recommend actions that improve project performance.
Depending on the size and complexity of the project, you may support multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring consistent application of Project Controls best practices, governance standards, and performance management processes. This role requires in-depth Project Controls expertise, strong leadership skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders to deliver successful business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the effective application of Project Controls work processes, tools, and best practices to improve project cost, schedule, and overall performance.
- Serve as the Project Controls leader on the Project Steering Team and a trusted advisor to project leadership.
- Provide leadership and direction to Project Controls resources assigned to the project, ensuring appropriate capability and coverage throughout the full project execution, FEL, Detailed Engineering, and Construction.
- Monitor project workload demands and proactively identify resource needs, escalating concerns when additional support is required.
- Deliver accurate and timely project forecasting, cost reporting, schedule analysis, and performance measurement.
- Complete Project Controls deliverables for monthly project reports, executive reviews, and other project management requirements.
- Own the quality, consistency, and integrity of all documents and deliverables produced by the Project Controls team.
- Drive the development and communication of meaningful project insights that enable proactive management of risks, opportunities, and emerging issues.
- Provide reporting of project status, including forecasting for all stages of the project including internal and external stakeholders.
- Support Independent Project Analysis (IPA) reviews and other project assurance activities as required.
- Oversee Change Management work process, ensuring impacts to cost, schedule, scope, and business objectives are identified, evaluated, and effectively communicated.
- Utilize project performance metrics, including Cost Competitiveness Ratio and Schedule Duration Ratio, to monitor project health and identify improvement opportunities.
- Establish and monitor Management Intervention Process thresholds and recommend corrective actions when performance deviates from approved targets.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the project team.
Qualifications
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree. In lieu of a degree, at least 10 years of relevant experience will be accepted.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in Project Controls, Engineering, Manufacturing, Construction, or a related discipline.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Demonstrated experience in cost management, scheduling, forecasting, and project performance analysis.
- Ability to influence project teams and stakeholders without a direct reporting line.
- A minimum requirement for this U.S.-based position is the ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.
Physical Demands
Willing and able to meet physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations:
- Work at heights and climb stairs and ladders.
- Wear all required personal protective equipment, such as earplugs, goggles, and steel-toed shoes.
- Visit manufacturing facilities and construction sites to support project execution activities.
Skills
- Stakeholder Communication: Ability to build alignment, communicate effectively across organizations, and influence decisions through clear, timely, and actionable project insights.
- Forecasting and Performance Management: Expertise in developing reliable cost and schedule forecasts that support informed decision-making and project predictability.
- Earned Value Management (EVM): Ability to measure project performance and progress using objective, data-driven methodologies.
- Strategic Planning: Ability to align project controls activities with business objectives and project execution strategies.
- Project Risk Management: Experience identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks that impact project cost, schedule, scope, and business outcomes.
- Change Management: Ability to evaluate and communicate the impact of project changes while maintaining alignment with approved objectives.
- Cost Engineering: Expertise in estimating, cost control, forecasting, investment analysis, and project performance evaluation.
- Cost Management: Ability to plan, monitor, analyze, and report project costs to drive improved financial outcomes.
- Leadership and Influence: Ability to lead project controls resources, challenge assumptions when necessary, and drive accountability across project teams.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to translate complex project information into actionable insights that improve project outcomes.
Additional Notes
Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
Benefits – What Dow offers you
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
Join our team, we can make a difference together.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.
As part of our dedication to inclusion, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
Dow is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing opportunities without regard for race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, age, disability and genetic information, including family medical history. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may call us at 1-833-My Dow HR (833-693-6947) and select option 8.
