Regional Project Controls Manager

Reworld Waste•Works from home OH, SC

23h•$91,200 - $121,400•Hybrid

About The Position

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, the Manager will work with stakeholders across the business as a billable resource for cost control.

Requirements

Candidates with a 4-year college degree are desirable however those with at least 2 years of direct experience may be considered with a High School Diploma or equivalent.
Candidates with direct experience in outage planning, outage cost tracking and a good understanding of power plant operations are strongly preferred but will consider those in an industry with large scale planned maintenance cycles with similar project sizes.
Demonstratable Project Controls experience with prior experience building cost loaded schedules as well as experience in tracking prior outage cost.
Prior experience with onsite tracking of large complex outages both on Cost and Schedule.
Prior experience in reporting outage performance to senior management.
Highly skilled and proficient in use of planning tools such as Primavera or Microsoft Project, with a strong proficiency in MS Office applications, especially with Excel (spreadsheets, modeling, and pivot tables). Higher level proficiency preferred in Access as well.
High level of financial acumen with expectations of creating budgets in a project costing role and tracking actual cost and forecasting estimates at completion.
Able to communicate effectively with management at all levels from the corporate offices and operating facilities.
Understanding of cost implications on changes to schedule Critical path. Ability to explain key drivers related to impacts on cost.
Able to compile planning documentation for review and effectively make revisions.
Good presentation skills for effective communications to PMO Project Managers & Project Control team.
Experience and skills planning multiple projects and coordinating them through their various phases.
Ability to appropriately delegate and deploy external resources and hold them accountable for defined KPI’s.
Ability to mentor & train other team members.
Must be willing 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 at a time.
Average travel expectation is approximately 50% with adjustments based on business need.

Responsibilities

Create and update, large PMO project detailed schedules L3, and L4.
Budget load, track actuals and estimate at complete cost on large PMO outages.
Review contractual payment terms with clients and develop schedule of payments. Ensure invoices to clients are issued in accordance with the contractual terms and project progress.
Travel to sites to audit the 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.
Indirect management and scoping of third-party resources (approximately 4-6 resources)
Work directly with Project Managers, procurement, regional resources, and management to properly track vendor cost and cashflows. Update vendor installments based on progress of projects.
Support the 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 accurately in accordance with the company’s calendar.
Run team calls and meetings when necessary.
Contribute to completing Post Outage Review summaries with improvement actions forward, best practices and lessons learned