Senior Project Controls Analyst

Annual Salary Range: $72,197.00 - $136,094.00
First Review of Applications: August 27, 2025
Expected Start Date: October 2025

Description

Overview of the Capital Project Office Division

SANDAG’s capital projects budget is the largest component of the SANDAG Program Budget, and it’s a direct result of state legislation that made SANDAG the responsible agency for construction of major regional transit facilities. This component of the budget includes the multi-year TransNet Major Corridor and Regional Bikeway Program and other transit and capital improvements. Examples of this work include the LOSSAN Rail Realignment, North Coast Corridor Program, bike infrastructure, and Otay Mesa East Port of Entry projects.

SANDAG’s Capital Project Office is responsible for maintaining the standards of project management by monitoring cost, scope, and schedule for all projects within the agency’s capital program.  This includes budget development, contract oversight, resource planning, scheduling, and streamlining project management for over 100 projects, with a multiple year investment of over $9 billion. SANDAG partners with Caltrans, transit operators, and local jurisdictions in order to implement these major transit, highway, and bikeway projects throughout the region. In addition, the Capital Project Office maintains public accountability by ensuring data quality of the public TransNet Dashboard, an interactive tool which provides in-depth reporting on the progress of TransNet funded Major Corridor projects. 

Role

The Senior Project Controls Analyst will develop, monitor, and maintain cost, scope, and schedules for capital transportation projects, and participate in technical financial and project management analyses related to the SANDAG capital improvement program (CIP). This role will also provide technical and financial project management analyses and support for staff and project managers. 

This analyst will oversee SANDAG’s Consultant Services Unit under the Program/Project Management department. They would be responsible for intaking new task order and contracts’ requests from capital program project managers (PMs) prior to the initiation of new requisitions. They will review the intended work to be performed under the new contract to ensure that it aligns with the scope, schedule, budget, and funding constraints of the approved CIP projects.

Typical Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree with major course work in engineering, planning, project management, financial management, public administration, or a related field. A master’s degree or PMP certificate is desirable.
• 5 years of increasingly responsible, professional experience in contract management, project controls, project scheduling, project management, finance, or budgeting experience preferably supporting the delivery of capital projects. 
• Experience overseeing cost, scope, and schedule for capital improvement projects, preferably.
• Demonstrated experience developing, monitoring, and maintaining numerous project budgets preferably for a comprehensive, regional capital improvement program; experience coordinating project control functions and activities and developing project budget control measures.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance to project team members and collaboratively preparing and maintaining detailed, critical path based project schedules; knowledge of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) particularly related to resource planning, milestones, and deliverables.

Benefits

SANDAG offers comprehensive benefits, to include health, dental, and vision insurance as well as employee assistance, wellness, and work/life balance programs. Additionally, SANDAG offers the following:

• Hybrid work options
• 9/80 flexible work schedule
• Pay-for-performance merit increases
• Retirement - Defined Benefit Plan with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
• Retirement - 457 Defined Contribution Plan with Voya
• Excellent health insurance options for employees and their eligible dependents
• Free dental and vision insurance for employees and their eligible dependents
• Education Assistance of up to $5,250 a year for regular employees
• Free transit pass for use throughout the San Diego region, bus, Rapid Express, Trolley, and COASTER
• Paid time off including 12 paid holidays, 2 floating holiday days, generous paid time off (PTO) per year, depending on length of service

To apply visit https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sandag?
Closing Date: August 25, 2025. EOE.