Job Description

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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

Leadership & Strategy

• 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).

Planning & Scheduling

• 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.

Cost Management & Forecasting

• 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.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, Business, or related field required.
• Master’s degree in a related discipline preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of progressive project controls experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Significant experience in the utilities sector (electric transmission & distribution, gas infrastructure, water/wastewater, generation, or similar regulated infrastructure).
• Proven track record managing project controls on large, complex, multi-year capital programs or portfolios.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Deep knowledge of project controls disciplines: planning & scheduling, cost control, earned value, risk, and change management.
• Strong understanding of utility project lifecycles, including permitting, right-of-way, outages, construction constraints, and regulatory oversight.
• Proficiency in scheduling software and cost management tools; experience with PowerBI, Tableau, or similar analytics tools is highly desirable.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to interpret complex data and communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent leadership, people management, and coaching skills, with experience building and leading high-performing teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to present to senior executives and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment and manage multiple priorities across a portfolio of projects.

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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