Senior Project Controls Manager
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Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of project controls strategies, standards, and procedures for utility capital projects
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of planners, schedulers, cost engineers, and analysts
- Serve as a key advisor to project and program leadership on schedule, cost, risk, and performance trends
- Oversee the development, integration, and maintenance of detailed project and program schedules
- Monitor schedule performance, perform schedule health checks, and develop recovery or acceleration plans
- Lead the establishment of project baselines, including budgets, cash flows, and cost breakdown structures
- Oversee cost tracking, forecasting, and earned value management
- Implement and maintain risk management processes, including risk registers and assessments
- Oversee project change management processes and evaluate change requests
- Develop and maintain standardized dashboards and reports for executive leadership and regulatory stakeholders
- Collaborate with Engineering, Construction, Operations, and other teams to integrate project controls data
- Own and optimize project controls systems and tools, ensuring data quality and integrity
Requirements
- Extensive experience in project controls for utility capital projects (electric, gas, water, wastewater, or T&D)
- Experience leading a team of project controls professionals
- Proficiency in scheduling tools (e.g., Primavera P6) and cost management systems
- Strong knowledge of earned value management, risk analysis, and change management
- Experience with reporting and governance for executive and regulatory stakeholders
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Position Summary
- The Senior Project Controls Manager is responsible for leading planning, scheduling, cost control, risk management, and reporting functions across a portfolio of complex utility projects (electric, gas, water, wastewater, or T&D).
- This role provides strategic oversight of project controls processes, ensures data integrity, and partners with project leadership to deliver capital programs on time and within budget, while meeting regulatory and safety requirements.
- The ideal candidate has extensive experience in the utilities sector, managing large, multi year capital programs, and leading a team of project controls professionals.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of project controls strategies, standards, and procedures for utility capital projects and programs.
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of planners, schedulers, cost engineers, and analysts.
- Serve as a key advisor to project and program leadership on schedule, cost, risk, and performance trends.
- Drive continuous improvement in project controls tools, processes, and reporting, aligned with industry best practices (e.g., AACE, PMI).
- Oversee the development, integration, and maintenance of detailed project and program schedules using tools.
- Ensure schedules reflect realistic work sequencing, resource constraints, outage windows, permitting, environmental, and regulatory requirements specific to utilities.
- Monitor schedule performance, perform schedule health checks, and develop recovery or acceleration plans as required.
- Conduct schedule risk analyses and scenario planning for major projects and programs.
- Lead the establishment of project baselines, including budgets, cash flows, and cost breakdown structures.
- Oversee cost tracking, forecasting, and earned value management, including variance analysis and root cause identification.
- Ensure accurate and timely monthly cost reporting, including commitments, actuals, contingencies, and forecast at completion.
- Coordinate with Finance, Procurement, and Project Management to reconcile project financials and align with corporate reporting.
Risk & Change Management
- Implement and maintain risk management processes, including risk registers, qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, and mitigation plans.
- Oversee project change management processes: evaluate change requests, assess schedule and cost impacts, and ensure proper approvals and documentation.
- Manage contingency development and utilization, ensuring transparency and governance around drawdowns.
Reporting & Governance
- Develop and maintain standardized dashboards and reports for executive leadership, project sponsors, and regulatory stakeholders.
- Present schedule, cost, and risk updates at governance forums, steering committees, and portfolio review meetings.
- Ensure compliance with internal governance frameworks, regulatory requirements, and audit standards.
Stakeholder & Interface Management
- Collaborate with Engineering, Construction, Operations, Environmental, Regulatory, Procurement, Real Estate, and Finance teams to integrate project controls data.
- Act as a liaison between field project teams and corporate functions to resolve issues and align priorities.
- Support external reporting and filings for regulators and public agencies as required (e.g., capital plans, rate cases).
Systems, Tools & Data Integrity
- Own and optimize project controls systems and tools (e.g., P6, cost management systems, business intelligence tools).
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and integrity across all project controls functions.
- Champion digitalization initiatives, including automation of reporting, data analytics, and integration of field data into project controls.
Key Performance Indicators
- Adherence to approved project and program schedules.
- Accuracy of cost forecasts versus actuals and budgets.
- Timeliness and quality of project controls reporting.
- Effectiveness of risk identification, mitigation, and change control.
- Stakeholder satisfaction (project teams, executives, regulators).
- Team engagement, development, and retention metrics.
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