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# Change Management Lead

- **Company:** Talascend LLC
- **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Primavera, Power BI
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.talascend.com/portal/jobseekers/jobs/136952/application

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.