Project Controls- Manager
About The Position
Shermco Industries is seeking a Project Controls Manager to establish and lead the project controls function within Shermco’s Project & Program Management Office. This role is responsible for developing the standards, tools, reporting practices, and governance necessary for consistent visibility into project cost, margin, schedule, change, risk, and forecast performance across high-risk projects and strategic programs. The Project Controls Manager will collaborate closely with Senior Project Managers, Program Managers, Operations, Finance, Estimating, and other functional teams to enhance predictability, identify performance issues early, and support timely corrective actions. While Project Managers and Operations retain accountability for project delivery, Project Controls will provide the necessary discipline, analysis, and transparency for effective performance management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Finance or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
- Seven or more years of progressive experience in project controls, project management, cost control, scheduling or related project-delivery functions.
- Demonstrated experience supporting complex projects in industrial services, construction, utilities, electrical services, EPC, data centers or a comparable project environment.
- Experience developing or leading cost, schedule, forecasting and project reporting processes across multiple projects or business units.
- Prior leadership or functional ownership experience strongly preferred.
Nice To Haves
- PMP, AACE Certified Cost Professional (CCP), Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP), PMI-SP or comparable professional certification.
- Experience implementing or maturing a project controls function within a growing organization.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain Shermco’s project controls standards, procedures, templates, reporting requirements, and governance expectations for PMO-supported work.
- Define minimum controls based on project size, complexity, contract type, schedule risk, and financial exposure to ensure appropriate levels of control.
- Standardize baseline development, forecast updates, variance analysis, change tracking, schedule controls, risk visibility, and project performance reporting.
- Support PMO leadership in determining when enhanced project controls support is required for high-risk or strategically important work.
- Oversee consistent tracking of approved project baseline, actual cost, committed cost, estimate to complete (ETC), estimate at completion (EAC), revenue, billing, and projected gross margin.
- Develop and maintain forecasting practices that provide early visibility into margin movement, cost exposure, and projected financial outcomes.
- Review significant variances and forecast changes with project leadership and help identify corrective actions or escalation needs.
- Partner with Finance and Operations to improve forecast accuracy, financial reconciliation, and executive confidence in project reporting.
- Establish scheduling standards appropriate for Shermco’s mix of field service, outage, data center, industrial, and multi-year project work.
- Provide oversight of baseline schedules, milestone plans, look-ahead schedules, critical-path reviews, and schedule recovery planning.
- Ensure material, subcontractor, customer, resource, and outage dependencies are reflected in project schedules where applicable.
- Establish consistent controls for change events, change-order tracking, unpriced exposure, pending customer decisions, and commercial risks.
- Ensure project risk, issue, and action information is incorporated into project controls reporting and escalated when financial, schedule, or customer impact is material.
- Support project teams in connecting identified risk and change exposure to EAC, margin, and schedule forecasts.
- Develop project and portfolio dashboards that provide concise visibility into financial performance, schedule status, change exposure, risk, and forecast trends.
- Lead recurring project controls reviews and support executive high-risk project reporting.
- Manage, coach, and develop Project Controls Analysts and Project Schedulers/Planners as the function grows.
- Drive continuous improvement in data quality, reporting efficiency, project systems, and controls maturity across the PMO.
Benefits
- USD $100,000.00 - USD $171,000.00 /Yr.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
