Project Controls – Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Develop and uphold project controls standards, procedures, templates, reporting requirements, and governance expectations.

• Determine minimum controls based on project size, complexity, contract type, schedule risk, and financial exposure.

• Standardize the creation of baselines, forecast updates, variance analysis, change tracking, schedule controls, risk visibility, and project performance reporting.

• Supervise the tracking of project baselines, actual and committed costs, estimated time to complete (ETC), estimated at completion (EAC), revenue, billing, and anticipated gross margin.

• Create forecasting methodologies and assess significant variances and forecast modifications.

• Collaborate with Finance and Operations to enhance forecast accuracy, financial reconciliation, and project reporting.

• Set scheduling standards and manage baseline schedules, milestone plans, look-ahead schedules, critical-path assessments, and schedule recovery strategies.

• Establish controls for change events, change orders, unpriced exposure, pending customer decisions, and commercial risks.

• Integrate project risks, issues, and actions into control reporting and escalate significant impacts.

• Create project and portfolio dashboards that encompass financial performance, schedule status, change exposure, risk, and forecasting trends.

• Facilitate regular project controls reviews and assist with high-risk project reporting to executives.

• Oversee, mentor, and develop Project Controls Analysts and Project Schedulers/Planners.

• Promote continuous improvement in data quality, reporting efficiency, project systems, and controls maturity throughout the PMO.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Finance, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be taken into account.

• A minimum of seven years of progressive experience in project controls, project management, cost control, scheduling, or related project delivery functions.

• Proven experience supporting complex projects in industrial services, construction, utilities, electrical services, EPC, data centers, or similar project environments.

• Experience in developing or leading cost, schedule, forecasting, and project reporting processes across multiple projects or business units.

• Previous leadership or functional ownership experience is strongly preferred.

• Willingness to travel 20-30%.

• PMP, AACE Certified Cost Professional (CCP), Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP), PMI-SP, or a comparable professional certification is preferred.

• Experience in implementing or advancing a project controls function within a growing organization is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work

• Equal Opportunity Employer

• Drug-free workplace