Regional Project Controls Manager

Overview

The Regional Project Controls Manager plays a key role in the successful delivery of PMO projects valued between $10 million and $250 million, supporting routine outages, planned maintenance, expansions, and emergency work. Reporting to the Project Controls Director, this role serves as a billable resource for cost control and partners with stakeholders across the business.

Responsibilities

• Create and update large PMO project detailed schedules (L3 and L4).
• Manage budget load, track actuals, and estimate at complete cost for large PMO outages.
• Review contractual payment terms with clients and develop schedule of payments, ensuring invoices are issued in accordance with contractual terms and project progress.
• Travel to sites to audit costs, meet with project teams and vendors.
• Support site planners and other remote planners and cost resources as subject matter experts.
• Mentor and cross-train team members on scheduling and cost tracking.
• Indirectly manage and scope third-party resources (approximately 4–6 resources).
• Work directly with Project Managers, procurement, regional resources, and management to track vendor costs and cashflows; update vendor installments based on project progress.
• Support development of Primavera standard scopes of work for Boiler outages, Turbine/generator outages, and PMO projects.
• Support regional planning refreshes 2 times a year.
• Support preparation of regional monthly cost, schedule, and cashflow reviews.
• Ensure project dashboard KPIs are complete and accurate in accordance with the company’s calendar.
• Run team calls and meetings when necessary.
• Contribute to completing Post Outage Review summaries, including improvement actions, best practices, and lessons learned.

Requirements

Education

• A 4-year college degree is desirable; candidates with at least 2 years of direct experience may be considered with a High School Diploma or equivalent.

Experience

• Direct experience in outage planning and outage cost tracking, with a good understanding of power plant operations; strong preference for those familiar with large scale planned maintenance cycles with similar project sizes.
• Demonstratable Project Controls experience, including building cost-loaded schedules and tracking prior outage cost.
• Prior experience with onsite tracking of large complex outages in both cost and schedule.
• Prior experience reporting outage performance to senior management.

Skills

• Proficiency using planning tools such as Primavera or Microsoft Project, and strong MS Office skills—especially Excel (spreadsheets, modeling, and pivot tables); higher proficiency preferred in Access.
• High level of financial acumen, including creating budgets in a project costing role and tracking actual costs and forecasting estimates at completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively with management across corporate offices and operating facilities.
• Understanding of how changes to schedule critical path impact costs, including ability to explain key cost drivers.
• Ability to compile planning documentation for review and make effective revisions.
• Strong presentation skills for communications to PMO Project Managers and the Project Control team.
• Ability to plan multiple projects and coordinate them through various phases.
• Ability to delegate and deploy external resources and hold them accountable for defined KPIs.
• Ability to mentor and train other team members.

Travel

• Willingness to travel to assigned plants for planning, cost tracking during execution, and reviews; typical duration could last up to a month at a time, with overall projects potentially lasting several years.
• Average travel expectation is approximately 50%, with adjustments based on business need.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to climb ladders and scaffold, enter and traverse tight spaces and areas.
• Must be able to walk, sit, climb, balance, crawl, and kneel.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base pay range (primary location): $91,200.00 - $121,400.00 USD per annum
• In addition to salary, the role is eligible for benefits, including medical, prescription drug, vision, and dental plans; 401(k) plan; paid parental leave; paid time off; and paid holidays.

Location

USA