Change Management Lead

Leads change control processes, analyzes trends, manages impact assessments, and coordinates project governance for large capital projects. Job #136952 Construction, The Change Management Lead is responsible for managing the early-warning, trend analysis, and formal change control processes for a major capital project. The role involves ensuring traceability from initial deviation through project governance, approval, and incorporation into project budgets, schedules, and risks., * Develop and maintain the trend and change management plan in accordance with client instructions and governance requirements.

• Administer the trend register and lead early identification of potential scope, cost, schedule, procurement, construction, and readiness impacts.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary assessments of trends and deviations, including cost estimates, schedule impacts, risk exposure, and funding implications.
• Manage formal change workflows, supporting documentation, approval routing, commercial records, and audit trails.
• Apply approved root-cause classifications and analyze recurring change drivers, aging, approval cycle time, and cumulative exposure.
• Coordinate contingency and funding-source evaluations and ensure approved changes are incorporated into budgets, forecasts, schedules, and risk registers.
• Prepare change dashboards, decision registers, and executive summaries for project governance and approval forums.
• Coordinate with other project controls leads to maintain linkage among risk registers, trend registers, change logs, and baseline controls.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, quantity surveying, business, finance, or related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant project controls, change management, commercial management, cost engineering, or major capital project experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing trends, change notices, impact assessments, contractor change submissions, and formal approval workflows.
• Strong knowledge of cost, schedule, risk, estimating, contracts, contingency, and baseline-control interfaces.
• Experience coordinating cost estimates and schedule time impact analyses for complex project changes.
• Ability to maintain complete auditability and communicate cumulative exposure and decision requirements to executive stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, written communication, and governance discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or other regulated manufacturing capital project experience.
• Owner’s representative, PMC, EPCM, or IPMT delivery experience on projects exceeding $500 million TIC.
• Experience with change management systems, EcoSys, Primavera P6, Power BI, or comparable change and project-controls platforms.
• Professional certification such as PMP, CCP, PSP, MRICS, CCM, or equivalent.
• Experience with stage-gate funding, contingency governance, claims avoidance, and contractor commercial negotiations.