Redwood Materials is building the U.S. stockpile of critical materials and deploying large-scale energy storage systems that power data centers and the nation’s grid.
About the role
The Lead Project Controls Specialist serves as a project controls lead for Redwood’s EPC capital projects, owning the integrated cost and schedule baseline and the performance reporting that leadership relies on to make decisions. This role develops and tracks project KPIs, administers earned value management, and leads cost control, budget tracking, forecasting, and change management across engineering, procurement, and construction phases.
What they're looking for
- Lead the project controls function for assigned capital projects, setting the standards, procedures, and reporting cadence used across cost, schedule, estimating, and change management
- Direct cost control activities, including budget development and allocation, commitment and expenditure tracking, accruals, cash flow projections, and monthly cost forecasts at the control account and project level
- Build and maintain the project budget, track actuals against budget, and produce variance analyses that explain cost and schedule deviations, quantify their impact, and identify corrective actions
- Develop, integrate, and maintain cost-loaded and resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6, including critical path analysis, schedule health checks, and progress updates from field and contractor data
- Produce and present weekly and monthly project performance reports and executive dashboards, translating cost, schedule, and earned value data into clear findings and recommendations for project and senior leadership
- Perform quantitative risk analysis, including schedule and cost risk assessments, what-if and recovery scenario modeling, and contingency drawdown tracking
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About Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist. They just need to come back. Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America — recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain. On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house. The company is profitable, the market it operates in is projected to grow 20 to 50 times over the next decade, and Redwood is the only company with the supply chain, the technology, and the operational scale to lead it.
The Lead Project Controls Specialist serves as a project controls lead for Redwood’s EPC capital projects, owning the integrated cost and schedule baseline and the performance reporting that leadership relies on to make decisions. This role develops and tracks project KPIs, administers earned value management, and leads...
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