Senior Project Controls Manager

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At ENFRA, stability, innovation, and growth are more than just values. They are the pillars of our continued success. Overview The Senior Project Controls Manager serves as the primary Project Controls business partner for an assigned Delivery Vice President and the associated project portfolio. Reporting to the Project Controls Director, this role provides portfolio-level leadership, coordination, and oversight for cost management, forecasting, scheduling, risk management, change management, energy performance, reporting, and Project Controls execution across the assigned portfolio. The Senior Project Controls Manager works directly with Delivery leadership and project teams to improve predictability and project outcomes. The role ensures enterprise and regional Project Controls standards are consistently applied, forecasts are credible, risks and changes are identified early, and project teams receive timely, practical support. While the position may directly lead selected strategic or high-visibility projects, its primary responsibility is oversight and integration of Project Controls activities across the assigned Delivery Vice President's portfolio. This is an embedded project leadership role, not a back-office reporting position. The Senior Project Controls Manager acts as the connection between Project Controls leadership and Delivery leadership, providing objective insight, escalating material concerns, driving corrective action, and developing Project Controls personnel into proactive and commercially aware members of project teams. Responsibilities Delivery VP Partnership, Portfolio Leadership, and Project Setup Serve as the primary Project Controls point of contact and business partner for an assigned Delivery Vice President.Drive project reviews, portfolio reviews, and Delivery leadership meetings, providing objective, data-driven insight into project performance, risk, and forecast reliability. Partner with Project Executives, Project Managers, Engineering, Supply Chain, Pre-Construction, Finance, and Project Controls personnel to identify emerging issues and convert project plans into executable cost, schedule, risk, and resource strategies. Support the Project Controls Director in aligning Project Controls resources to the portfolio and integrating those resources into project leadership teams. Along with the Project Controls Director, lead the effort from Phase 3 through Commercial Close of project setup, execution planning, baseline schedules, work breakdown structures, time-phased budgets, and execution plans in alignment with enterprise standards. Escalate significant portfolio risks, forecast concerns, schedule threats, change exposure, performance issues, and resource constraints to the Project Controls Director and Delivery leadership. Cost Management, Financial Performance, and Forecasting Oversee cost management, financial performance, and forecasting across the assigned portfolio, including budgeting, cost control, commitment tracking, cash flow, cost trending, variance analysis, and Estimate-at-Completion development. Direct oversight over the Cost Controller and review monthly forecasts, challenge assumptions, validate cost-to-complete methodologies, and confirm that risks, opportunities, and performance drivers are quantified and documented. Partner with Project Management, Operations Finance, and project teams to align project forecasts with operational expectations and financial reporting. Monitor forecast accuracy and portfolio performance trends, identify opportunities for improvement, and support corrective actions that protect project value and margin objectives. Provide clear portfolio-level visibility into budget, forecast, cash, and financial health for Project Controls and Delivery leadership. Schedule Management Direct oversight over the Project Scheduler - monitor schedule performance and support the development, integrity, and active management of project schedules across the assigned portfolio. Review critical path, milestone performance, resource considerations, contractual commitments, energy savings milestones, and recovery plans with project teams and scheduling resources. Pressure-test schedule assumptions, identify threats to key dates, and facilitate practical actions to improve schedule quality and protect delivery commitments. Ensure schedule updates and practices align with enterprise standards and provide reliable information for project decision-making. Risk & Change Management Maintain visibility into major portfolio risks and opportunities and ensure project teams actively maintain risk registers, ownership, mitigation actions, and potential cost and schedule impacts. Support the use of appropriate deterministic and probabilistic risk methods based on project needs and enterprise requirements. Review significant change events, trends, claims, and potential impacts to cost, schedule, energy performance, and contract outcomes