Join a nationally significant recovery effort advancing a resilient, healthy Maui community. This role supports post‑disaster rebuilding by aligning water, reuse, wastewater, stormwater, watershed, and cultural and historic resource outcomes under a unified One Water approach. You will serve as part of a multidisciplinary team, translating complex recovery challenges into actionable strategies through effective facilitation, engagement, and cross‑agency coordination that directly supports community rebuilding and long‑term sustainability.
Working alongside County leadership and partners, you will help advance standardized recovery operations, governance, and engagement practices that promote transparency, informed decision‑making, and delivery of resilient infrastructure. This work supports Maui’s long‑term recovery and climate resilience goals while ensuring that rebuilding efforts strengthen essential systems and community outcomes.
Job Summary
The DC3, Program Controls role will play a key role on program teams to support the planning and delivery of complex projects and programs that require extensive planning and execution due to larger project sizes, and complexities. The role will involve leading assignments and daily operations contributing to the execution of the programs, ensuring the program goals and benefits are achieved and driving continuous program improvements. This role includes planning and administration, scheduling, procurement, project controls, risk management, document controls, and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Leads program controls assignments and activities on complex projects and programs.
- Utilize comprehensive understanding of our company's program management services to offer optimal solutions to clients.
- Leverage activities across program management lifecycle phases: planning, initiation, delivery, and closeout.
- Develop and execute program controls plans and the successful execution of controls on programs.
- Monitor, analyze, and report on progress, cost and schedule variances, and forecasts.
- Analyze and evaluate program and project status and recommend corrective actions.
- Plan and budget the controls resources and systems necessary to support the program.
- Resolve issues and provide consistency between the cost control, planning/scheduling, and estimating functions and deliverables.
- Implement standardized Project Controls tools, procedures, and processes.
Preferred Requirements
- Design and ability to facilitate governance, decision forums, and reporting cadence.
- Maintains portfolio alignment tools.
- Governance design
- Capital program coordination
- Risk & dependency management
- Analytics translation
Mentorship
- May provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow within their roles.
Skills and Competencies
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and communicate with program stakeholders.
- Accomplished in project management and delivery with ability to lead larger, more challenging project assignments on time and budget.
- Proven skills in program delivery lifecycle management phases, processes, and activities.
- Skilled in program controls, commercial acumen, and performance monitoring and reporting.
- Well-versed in program planning and initiation, change management, risk management, and quality management.
- Pragmatic
- Disciplined
- Respected by technical staff
- Resourceful
- Work across multiple teams and disciplines
- Good communicator
Experience
- Typically, a minimum of 10 years of project management, and multiple years in project controls, program controls, or related experience is required.
- Experience in working under supervision to deliver moderately complex to complex projects.
Education
- A degree in engineering, construction business management or related field or equivalent experience is required.
Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Location A: $105,000 - $143,000
Location B: $116,000 - $158,000
Location C: $126,000 - $172,000
You can view which BC location applies to you here. If you have any questions, please speak with your Recruiter.
Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here to see our full list of benefits.
About Brown and Caldwell
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com
This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.
Notice to Third Party Agencies: Brown and Caldwell does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement and approved engagement request with Brown and Caldwell, Brown and Caldwell reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.
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Skills Required
- Minimum of 10 years of project management experience with multiple years in project/program controls
- Degree in engineering, construction business management, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience delivering moderately complex to complex projects on time and on budget
- Program controls skills: planning, scheduling, cost control, forecasting, and performance reporting
- Experience with risk management, change management, and quality management within program delivery
- Experience with procurement, document controls, and administration of program controls systems
- Ability to lead assignments, coordinate cross-agency stakeholders, and implement standardized controls tools and processes
- Governance design and ability to facilitate decision forums and reporting cadence
- Maintains portfolio alignment tools and capital program coordination experience
- Risk and dependency management and analytics translation skills
- May provide mentorship and guidance to less experienced team members
What We Do
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., Brown and Caldwell is an employee-owned firm with 2,100+ professionals serving clients locally and globally from 52 locations. We are the largest engineering and construction firm solely focused on the U.S. water and environmental sectors. Our creative designs and progressive solutions have helped municipal, federal and private organizations overcome their most complex environmental challenges. We offer a comprehensive range of engineering, scientific, consulting and construction services and all the essential ingredients® for a successful project and a standout experience. We are passionate about delivering exceptional service, collaborating with clients, adding value through innovation and building relationships that last. This passion dates back to Ken Brown and Dave Caldwell, who, since founding the company in 1947, stood out for their ability to solve engineering challenges, apply technology to emerging environmental problems, and serve their community. Service, great technical solutions, innovation. These are the qualities our founders carried forward as the world changed and the company grew into what it is today. Now, more than 75 years later, these qualities are just as important – essential, really – to Brown and Caldwell and to our clients.
