Project Controls- Manager

Shermco Industries is seeing a Project Controls Manager. The Project Controls Manager is responsible for establishing and leading the project controls function within Shermco’s Project & Program Management Office. This role develops the standards, tools, reporting practices and governance required to provide consistent visibility into project cost, margin, schedule, change, risk and forecast performance across high-risk projects and strategic programs. The Project Controls Manager partners closely with Senior Project Managers, Program Managers, Operations, Finance, Estimating and other functional teams to improve predictability, identify performance issues early and support timely corrective action.

Project Managers and Operations retain accountability for project delivery;
Project Controls provides the discipline, analysis and transparency required to manage that performance effectively.

Remote

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. Shermco does not provide visa sponsorship for this position.

• 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 so the level of control is appropriate to the work.
• 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…