Manager - PMO Project Controls

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The good-faith pay range for this role is $150,800 - $219,550 per year. Actual compensation may vary and may be above the posted range based on factors such as a candidate's skills, experience, education, certifications, and work location.

This position may be designated as virtual or remote, with the requirement that candidates reside within 50 miles of the assigned duty location.

The Manager, Project Controls supports the PMO Director by leading the daily operations of the Project Controls Group and ensuring consistent, DOE compliant project controls across all laboratory projects. The role oversees cost and schedule development and performance reporting, EVMS implementation, and project budget monitoring while supervising and developing project controls analysts. Acting as the PMO's project controls subject matter expert, the manager collaborates with various levels of the organization to include leadership as well as DOE stakeholders to ensure accurate performance data, compliant documentation, and effective risk and variance analysis.

The position maintains project controls tools, templates, and metrics, provides recommendations to the PMO Director on project performance trends, and supports PMO strategic planning through resource forecasting and operational improvements.

• Support the PMO Director to maintain a DOE compliant project controls framework including EIA-748 EVMS, cost/schedule reporting, and DOE Order 413.3B expectations, providing oversight, and expertise to ensure PMO policy execution.
• Lead and develop the PCA team in budgeting, scheduling, EVMS compliance, risk, and reporting, supporting the PMO Director's strategic workforce planning and talent development goals.
• Oversee project controls self-assessments, ensuring performance standards, address gaps, and report significant findings to the PMO Director.
• Execute PMO strategies and initiatives by providing leadership and oversight for large, complex, federally funded projects, ensuring project controls standards and workflows are consistently applied across all analysts and projects.
• Ensure all PMO project controls policies, procedures, templates, and workflows maintained under the PMO Director's authority are implemented correctly and improved through feedback, analysis, and operational excellence practices.
• Serve as the PMO's project controls SME and primary liaison across the lab, collaborating with cross functional teams and external DOE stakeholders to ensure project performance data meets internal standards and DOE requirements.
• Interact with Laboratory leaders and DOE reviewers to resolve complex project controls issues, escalating significant risks, recommendations, and compliance concerns to the PMO Director as needed.
• Create, maintain, and monitor PMO project controls metrics, dashboards, and performance indicators, identifying opportunities for improvement and advising the PMO Director on trends, risks, and operational efficiencies.
• Assist in oversight of project budgets by validating funding profiles, cost estimates, and performance data provided by PCA's and advise on impacts, risks, and corrective actions, supporting PMO Director visibility into portfolio resources.
• Work with IT to select, deploy, and improve enterprise software tools for project estimating, budgeting, scheduling, and risk analysis; oversee cost engines.

• Manage daily operations of the Project Controls Group, leading analysts who support multi-million and line-item laboratory projects.
• Develop, manage, and optimize Project Controls resources including staffing forecasts, recruitment support, and workload balancing to ensure analysts can effectively achieve project objectives and PMO goals defined by the Director.
• Provide training and development to ensure analysts can meet PMO standards in EVMS analysis, integrated cost/schedule reporting, risk modeling, and federal reporting,…