Sr Project Controls Manager-Capital Projects in Monroe

Senior Project Controls Manager – Capital Projects

Compensation DOE

The Senior Project Controls Manager is responsible for leading and continuously improving project controls across a complex capital project portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Director of Capital Projects, this role provides senior-level oversight of project cost, schedule, forecasting, progress measurement, risk, change management, and portfolio performance.

This position serves as the primary project controls authority across the capital organization, ensuring projects are supported by credible baselines, disciplined cost and schedule controls, reliable forecasts, effective risk and change management, and consistent performance reporting.

The Senior Project Controls Manager works directly with Project Managers, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Procurement, Finance, and EPC/EPCM partners to assess project health, identify emerging cost and schedule exposure, challenge assumptions, and drive corrective action.

A successful candidate will bring deep industrial capital-project experience, strong technical project controls expertise, and the executive presence necessary to translate complex project information into clear, forward-looking insights for senior leadership.

• Maintain an integrated view of the capital portfolio, including approved budgets, commitments, actual expenditures, forecasts, cash flow, schedules, milestones, contingency, risk, and overall project performance.
• Consolidate project-level information into reliable portfolio forecasts and executive reporting.
• Provide forward-looking analysis of capital deployment, project completion, cash flow, and potential cost or schedule exposure.
• Support annual capital planning, budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range capital planning.
• Develop portfolio dashboards and KPIs that provide leadership with clear visibility into project execution and capital performance.
• Identify systemic or portfolio-level risks and elevate significant exposures to leadership.

• Establish and maintain rigorous cost-control and forecasting practices across the portfolio.
• Oversee project budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, cash flow, contingency, and Estimates at Completion (EAC).
• Review and challenge project forecasts for accuracy, completeness, and appropriate consideration of identified risks and opportunities.
• Analyze cost trends, variances, potential overruns, and forecast changes and work with Project Managers to establish corrective actions.
• Maintain visibility of purchase orders, contracts, invoices, change orders, contingency utilization, and remaining project exposure.
• Partner with Finance to ensure alignment between project controls data and financial reporting.

• Establish scheduling standards appropriate to project size, complexity, risk, and execution phase.
• Ensure projects maintain credible integrated schedules covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and closeout.
• Evaluate schedule logic, sequencing, critical path, float, milestones, resource constraints, and overall schedule quality.
• Monitor schedule performance against approved baselines and identify milestone slippage, critical-path changes, and emerging execution risks.
• Lead schedule reviews with project teams and contractors and challenge assumptions, progress, recovery plans, and completion forecasts.
• Support development of schedule mitigation and recovery strategies.

• Establish consistent methods for measuring engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and overall project progress.
• Develop and monitor…