Project Control Manager (Remote)

Description & Requirements

The Sr. Consultant-Project Control Manager is a key member of the Program Management Office (PMO) and serves as the primary owner of the Master Project Schedule for a child support modernization project. This role is responsible for project controls governance, including schedule management, resource planning, forecasting, risk management, issue management, scope control, change control, and executive reporting. Working closely with the Project Manager and members of the project team, the Project Control Manager ensures project plans, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables are integrated into a comprehensive Master Project Schedule and aligned with approved project objectives. The Project Control Manager provides leadership in developing project control processes, schedule governance, performance measurement, and forecasting to support on-time, successful project delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Collaborate with project managers on various initiatives and projects to track progress and provide support as necessary. - Support leadership in ensuring that the project is delivered to specifications, is on time, and within budget. - Work closely with management and work groups to create and maintain work plan documents. - Track the status and due dates of projects. - Manage relationships with project staff responsible for projects. - Produce regular weekly and monthly status reports that could include; work plan status, target dates, budget, resource capacity, and other reports as needed. - Facilitate regular meetings and reviews. - Adhere to contract requirements and comply with all corporate policies and procedures.

JOB SPECIFIC DUTIES Integrated Planning and Scheduling · - Own, maintain, and govern the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across all project workstreams, vendors, and stakeholders. · - Develop and maintain Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) aligned with approved scope and deliverables. · - Consolidate schedules from multiple teams, vendors, and project managers into a unified program schedule. · - Identify and manage task, milestone, resource, and dependency relationships. · - Perform critical path analysis and schedule impact assessments. · - Conduct schedule forecasting and what-if scenario modeling to support executive decision-making. · - Establish and maintain schedule baselines and governance processes. Project Controls and Performance Management · - Monitor project performance against approved schedule, scope, and budget baselines. · - Track progress, remaining effort, milestone achievement, and schedule variance. · - Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, status reports, and project controls metrics. · - Analyze trends and proactively identify risks to schedule performance. · - Provide recommendations and recovery plans for schedule slippage or delivery challenges. · - Ensure project controls processes are consistently applied across all project workstreams. Risk, Issue, Scope, and Change Management · - Establish and maintain project control protocols for risk management, issue management, scope management, and change control. · - Continuously evaluate project risks and coordinate mitigation planning. · - Assess schedule, resource, and delivery impacts associated with proposed changes. · - Ensure scope changes are appropriately documented, justified, approved, and incorporated into project baselines. · - Maintain issue logs, decision logs, risk registers, and change control documentation. · - Support audit readiness and compliance reporting activities. Resource and Dependency Management · - Support resource planning, capacity analysis, forecasting, and workload balancing. · - I dentify resource constraints and coordinate mitigation strategies. · - Perform resource allocation and leveling analysis. · Manage cross-project dependencies and escalation of dependency-related risks. · Coordinate project activities across multiple teams and