Senior Lead Project Controls Specialist

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JobgetherTechnology infrastructure
Fully remote work arrangement within the United States.Full-TimeLead
SalaryCompetitive base salary ranging from $105,786 to $155,152, depending on work location, skills, experience, and other relevant factors.
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Job Details

Experience
8+ years of experience in project controls, resource planning, workforce planning, operational expenditure management, portfolio governance, or a closely related field.
Required Skills
Microsoft Power BISAPResource PlanningMicrosoft Excel

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Analytics, or a related discipline.
  • 8+ years of experience in project controls, resource planning, workforce planning, operational expenditure management, portfolio governance, or a closely related field.
  • Experience developing resource models, capacity plans, workload forecasts, planning dashboards, and scenario analyses.
  • Strong understanding of project delivery environments, governance processes, planning assumptions, operational dependencies, and cross-functional delivery requirements.
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel and Power BI, including creating scalable, accurate, and maintainable analytical models and reporting solutions.
  • Experience preparing executive-level reporting, decision materials, forecasts, and action-oriented recommendations.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across teams in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
  • Experience working within large, matrixed organizations involving employees, contractors, and cross-functional delivery teams.
  • Knowledge of project controls, portfolio management, capacity planning, workforce analytics, and resource governance practices.
  • Experience with planning and reporting platforms such as SAP, Planview, Clarity, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, or comparable enterprise tools.
  • Experience in telecommunications, technology, network deployment, infrastructure, or large-scale capital programs is preferred.
  • Professional certification in project management, project controls, analytics, or a related discipline is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead short-, medium-, and long-term resource planning across project teams and business functions.
  • Build and maintain resource supply-and-demand models covering workload, priorities, vacancies, contractor requirements, skills, utilization, and capacity constraints.
  • Develop scenario-planning frameworks, dashboards, and reporting tools for resource demand, capacity, contractor mix, vacancies, and planning risks.
  • Identify resource gaps, skill shortages, capacity constraints, and delivery risks, and recommend practical options to business leaders.
  • Align resource plans with project schedules, annual planning cycles, operational expenditure assumptions, and changing business priorities.
  • Facilitate cross-functional planning and governance sessions to validate assumptions, evaluate risks, prioritize actions, and establish mitigation plans.
  • Translate data, forecasts, and modeling outputs into executive recommendations, decision materials, and actionable insights.
  • Improve planning standards, data quality, reporting cadence, governance routines, and forecasting processes.
  • Develop month-over-month deployment-driven revenue realization schedules using field deployment milestones and delivery sequencing.
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Competitive base salary ranging from $105,786 to $155,152, depending on work location, skills, experience, and other relevant factors.
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