Senior Project Controller

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND BASIC DUTIES

• The Senior Project Controller will bring clarity, discipline, and forward-looking insight to complex project execution. This role turns project data into action by building practical controls, surfacing risks early, and helping teams make better decisions before cost, schedule, or margin are impacted. Key responsibilities include:
• Build the project controls operating system. Establish practical standards for project setup, cost codes, schedules, baselines, reporting rhythms, change control, risk tracking, document control, and closeout so project teams have a clear, repeatable way to control the work.
• Create cost and schedule visibility. Maintain budgets, commitments, actuals, forecasts, margin outlooks, integrated schedules, milestones, critical path, lookaheads, and recovery plans that show where projects really stand and where they are headed.
• Turn performance data into early action. Use variance analysis, earned value concepts, trends, progress measurement, productivity indicators, and forecast reviews to identify issues early and help teams move from explanation to corrective action.
• Control change before it controls the project. Own the change management process from identification through pricing, schedule impact, approval, documentation, and baseline updates so scope, cost, and schedule impacts are visible and managed.
• Make risk, opportunity, and capacity visible. Maintain risk registers, opportunity logs, mitigation plans, contingency assumptions, resource demand views, and escalation triggers that help leaders see constraints and make timely trade-off decisions.
• Strengthen project data and document discipline. Help ensure schedules, cost reports, change records, risk logs, action items, drawings, customer deliverables, and closeout records are accurate, version-controlled, retrievable, and maintained in approved systems.
• Deliver decision-ready reporting. Prepare concise project and portfolio reports, dashboards, and leadership updates that clearly communicate status, forecasted outcomes, key variances, risks, decisions needed, and corrective actions.
• Improve systems, tools, and adoption. Use and help improve Microsoft Dynamics 365, scheduling tools, Power BI or similar reporting platforms, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, and related workflows while coaching project teams on consistent project controls practices.
• Build lessons learned into the next project. Support closeout, root cause reviews, and post-project analysis to capture recurring issues, improve standards, and make each project easier to plan, control, and deliver than the last.