Remote Senior Lead — Resource Planning & Controls

Lumen; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 116,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Lumen, a leading network provider, seeks a Senior Lead Project Controls Specialist to shape resource planning and expenditure governance across Custom Networks. You will develop data-driven models linking demand with workforce supply and delivery capacity, partnering across controls, operations, engineering, and finance.

The role demands 8+ years in project controls, with expertise in resource modeling and scenario analysis, plus advanced Excel and Power BI skills.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of experience in project controls, resource planning, workforce planning, Opex management, portfolio governance, or related discipline.
• Experience building resource models, capacity plans, workload forecasts, planning dashboards, and scenario analyses.
• Strong understanding of project delivery environments, governance routines, planning assumptions, and cross‑functional dependencies.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and Power BI, including building scalable models and reporting views.
• Experience preparing executive‑level updates, decision materials, and actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead short-, medium-, and long-term resource planning across project teams and business functions.
• Build and maintain resource supply-and-demand models reflecting workloads, priorities, vacancies, contractor needs, skills, and capacity constraints.
• Develop scenario-planning frameworks, dashboards, and reporting views that provide visibility into resource demand, utilization, contractor mix, vacancies, and planning risks.
• Identify resource gaps, skill constraints, and capacity risks, and recommend practical options that support business and delivery commitments.
• Partner with leaders to align resource plans with project schedules, annual planning cycles, operational expenditure assumptions, and changing priorities.
• Facilitate cross‑functional planning and governance sessions to validate assumptions, evaluate risks, review priorities and establish mitigation actions.
• Translate complex data and modelling outputs into concise, action‑oriented recommendations and decision materials for senior leaders.
• Improve planning standards, data quality, reporting cadence, governance routines, and forecast reliability.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Facilitation

Organization

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Analytics

Tools

SAP

Planview

Clarity

Anaplan

Adaptive Planning

Job description

Lumen, a leading network provider, seeks a Senior Lead Project Controls Specialist to shape resource planning and expenditure governance across Custom Networks. You will develop data-driven models linking demand with workforce supply and delivery capacity, partnering across controls, operations, engineering, and finance.

The role demands 8+ years in project controls, with expertise in resource modeling and scenario analysis, plus advanced Excel and Power BI skills.