Performance Management Lead

Overview Cordoba Corporation is a leading engineering and design firm based in California. We are seeking a Performance Management Lead to join our Transportation Sector. Under the general direction of the Chief of Project Controls, the Performance Management Lead oversees our client's Capital Baseline, encompassing both funded and unfunded components of the program. Serving as a senior manager within the Program Management Oversight (PMO) Branch, the incumbent collaborates closely with the Cost, Schedule, and Risk Unit leads to consolidate, monitor, and report performance against the established baseline. This role ensures overall program performance remains on track and provides the Project Controls Office with forward‑looking assessments and trend analyses. Responsibilities include developing, maintaining, and reviewing project controls data—such as budgets, cost forecasts, schedules, and risk information—and delivering accurate, timely performance reporting and variance analysis. Additionally, the position manages the technical documentation required for Business Plans, Project Update Reports, and other stakeholder‑mandated reporting. Responsibilities Key PMO resource in charge of our client's Capital Baseline, including the technical supporting documents, systems, and data underling the baseline. Responsible for integration of the baseline across functions and branches via coordination with PMO Cost Control team Supports definition of how progress is measured against the Capital Baseline Controls against changes to the Capital Baseline per the the client's Governance processes Assess estimates, costs, risks, and schedule updates across the program for adherence to the Capital Baseline Support with the development of annual budgets for specialist sections of the program, taking ownership of articulating and tabulating year on year movements and the multi-year forecasts. Compare and analyze trends and risks against the original cost estimates and budgets within the Capital Baseline. Identify opportunities to bring costs trends to prompt mitigations to bring cost trend in line with estimates and budgets. Drive process, procedure and systems related improvement across the Risk Management Office working with the wider business to fully integrate these requirements Work with the wider Controls team, to build out a scalable Work Break-Down Structure, Asset Break-Down Structure, and other necessary project specific data structures required to better enable rolled up reporting across the organization Work in partnership with the Reporting function to provide strategic direction to, the monthly and-annual reporting requirements so that information is appropriately prioritized for its audience, is accurate, appropriately detailed, submitted timely to enable key decision making and is aligned to the requirements of key stakeholders Operate as the big picture expert on the Capital Baseline to ensure consistency and robustness…