Regional PMO Project Controls Lead

Reworld Waste; Kentucky; On-site; USD 91,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Reworld Waste is seeking a Regional Project Controls Manager to drive cost control and scheduling for PMO projects valued at $10M–$250M. You will report to the Project Controls Director, auditing costs, tracking progress, and coordinating with project teams and vendors across sites.

You will lead PMO planning, develop cost-loaded schedules, monitor payments, and mentor junior planners while working in a fast-paced, travel-heavy environment supporting outages and maintenance activities.

Qualifications

• Candidates with a 4-year college degree are desirable; those with at least 2 years of direct experience may be considered with a High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Direct outage planning, outage cost tracking and a good understanding of power plant operations are preferred but will consider those in an industry with large scale planned maintenance cycles with similar project sizes.
• Demonstrable Project Controls experience with prior experience building cost loaded schedules as well as experience in tracking prior outage cost.
• Prior experience with onsite tracking of large complex outages both on Cost and Schedule and reporting outage performance to senior management.

Responsibilities

• Create and update large PMO project detailed schedules L3 and L4.
• Budget load, track actuals and estimate at complete cost on large PMO outages.
• Review contractual payment terms with clients and develop schedule of payments; ensure invoices align with terms.
• Travel to sites to audit costs, meet with project teams and vendors.
• Support site planners and other remote planners and cost resources as subject matter experts.
• Mentor and cross-train other team resources on scheduling and cost tracking.
• Indirect management and scoping of third-party resources (approximately 4-6 resources).
• Work with PMs, procurement, regional resources to track vendor cost and cashflows; update installments.
• Support development of Primavera standard scopes of work for outages and PMO projects.
• Support regional planning refreshes 2 times a year and monthly cost/schedule reviews.
• Ensure project dashboard KPIs are complete and accurate per calendar.
• Run team calls and meetings when necessary.
• Contribute to Post Outage Review summaries with improvements and lessons learned.

Skills

Outage planning

Cost tracking

Scheduling

PMO experience

Vendor cost management

Financial acumen

MS Office

Excel

Primavera

MS Project

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

2+ years direct experience with HS diploma or equivalent

Tools

Primavera

Microsoft Project

MS Office

Excel

Access

Job description

Reworld Waste is seeking a Regional Project Controls Manager to drive cost control and scheduling for PMO projects valued at $10M–$250M. You will report to the Project Controls Director, auditing costs, tracking progress, and coordinating with project teams and vendors across sites.

You will lead PMO planning, develop cost-loaded schedules, monitor payments, and mentor junior planners while working in a fast-paced, travel-heavy environment supporting outages and maintenance activities.