Senior Project Control Specialist

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

📋 Description

• Consolidate, coordinate, publish, and uphold enterprise project control standards of practice.

• Create project control knowledge-management materials, including training content, course materials, handbooks, job aids, presentations, and topic papers.

• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, Contracts, Operations PCS Leads, HR, Project Managers, and Program Managers.

• Assist in process maturation, systems modifications, workflows, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Curate and share best practices across a portfolio of over 100 projects.

• Maintain PPMCOE repositories for published, ongoing, and archived content.

• Support PPM Community of Practice forums, lunch-and-learns, field inquiries, and announcements.

• Aid in the planning and execution of the annual Program Management conference.

• Contribute to PCS job-family, job-description, and succession-planning activities.

• Develop corporate-level business analyses, workflows, dashboards, and reporting.

• Lead project-control-related deliverables and consulting efforts within the PPMCOE.

• Engage in PPMCOE team events, task tracking, reporting, reviews, and enterprise presentations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, business analysis, finance, accounting, project management, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred but not mandatory.

• Over 7 years of direct experience in project controls, financial analysis, or program support within government contracting environments.

• Experience in supporting large federal prime contracts, including CPFF, T&M, and FFP contract types.

• Proven experience in defining, implementing, and refining project control methodologies.

• Familiarity with PMI project management standards or equivalent frameworks.

• Hands-on expertise with Deltek Costpoint, advanced Excel, Smartsheet, Workday Adaptive, and Power BI.

• Knowledge of federal contracting compliance and project reporting standards.

• Experience in developing processes, workflows, dashboards, and analytical tools.

• Background in designing and facilitating training sessions, workshops, or conference content.

• Ability to analyze complex data sets and provide actionable insights.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Proactive, self-directed, detail-oriented, and capable of working independently within a collaborative hybrid PMO/COE structure.

• Availability for occasional travel, up to 20%, to corporate locations.

🏝️ Benefits

• New hires accrue 20 days of PTO and 10 holidays annually.

• Zero deductible health plans available.

• Flexible work schedules.

• Up to $10,000 in annual education/training reimbursement.

• Funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

• 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting.

• Eligibility for semi-annual bonus opportunities.

• Career mentorship programs offered.

• Life and disability insurance provided.

• Company-wide town-hall meetings held three times a year.