Regional Project Controls Manager

Overview

The Regional Project Controls Manager will play 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 works with stakeholders across the business as a billable resource for cost control.

Responsibilities

• Create and update large PMO project detailed schedules L3 and L4.
• Perform budget load, track actuals, and estimate at complete cost on large PMO outages.
• Review contractual payment terms with clients and develop a schedule of payments; ensure 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 other team resources on scheduling and cost tracking.
• Indirectly manage and scope third-party resources (approximately 4–6 resources).
• Work with Project Managers, procurement, regional resources, and management to track vendor cost 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 Post Outage Review summaries, including improvement actions, best practices, and lessons learned.

Requirements

Education

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

Experience

• Direct experience in outage planning, outage cost tracking, and a strong understanding of power plant operations is strongly preferred; consideration is available for those with similar project sizes in an industry with large-scale planned maintenance cycles.
• Demonstrable Project Controls experience, including building cost-loaded schedules and tracking prior outage costs.
• Prior experience with onsite tracking of large complex outages for both cost and schedule.
• Prior experience reporting outage performance to senior management.

Skills

• Strong proficiency with planning tools such as Primavera or Microsoft Project, plus MS Office applications—especially Excel (spreadsheets, modeling, and pivot tables). Higher proficiency in Access is preferred.
• High level of financial acumen, including expectations of creating budgets in a project costing role and tracking actual cost and forecasting estimates at completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively with management at all levels from corporate offices and operating facilities.
• Understanding of how schedule Critical Path changes impact cost, including the ability to explain key cost drivers related to schedule impacts.
• Ability to compile planning documentation for review and effectively make revisions.
• Strong presentation skills for communications to PMO Project Managers and the Project Controls team.
• Ability to plan and coordinate multiple projects 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. Overall projects can last for several years.
• Average travel expectation is approximately 50% with adjustments based on business need.

Physical Demands

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

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay range (primary location): $91,200.00 - $121,400.00 USD per annum
• Eligible for benefits including medical, prescription drug, vision, and dental plans; 401(k) plan; paid parental leave; paid time off; and paid holidays.

Location

Primary location pay range applies for the posting’s primary location. Regular full-time employees based in the USA have access to comprehensive medical, prescription drugs, dental, and vision coverage, FSA, HSA, short- and long-term disability benefits, and additional benefits listed in the benefits overview.