Senior Lead Project Controls & Resource Planning

Lumen; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 106,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Project Controls Specialist to shape resource planning and Opex governance across Custom Networks and CN Shared Resources. You will develop data-driven models linking demand with workforce supply and business priorities.

You will collaborate with project controls, operations, engineering, finance, and executives to identify capacity gaps, vacancies, and risks, delivering clear recommendations for leadership decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Analytics, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of experience in project controls, resource planning, workforce planning, Opex management, portfolio governance, or related discipline.
• Demonstrated 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.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.

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 for visibility into demand, utilization, contractor mix, vacancies, and risks.
• Identify resource gaps, skill constraints, and capacity risks; recommend actionable options.
• Partner with leaders to align resource plans with project schedules and budgets.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning and governance sessions to validate assumptions and mitigate risks.
• Translate complex data and modelling outputs into concise recommendations for senior leaders.
• Improve planning standards, data quality, reporting cadence, governance routines, and forecast reliability.
• Develop deployment-driven revenue realization schedules tied to field milestones for leadership and finance.

Skills

Resource planning

Project controls

Capacity planning

Scenario analysis

Excel

Power BI

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Tools

SAP

Planview

Clarity

Anaplan

Adaptive Planning

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Senior Lead Project Controls Specialist to shape resource planning and Opex governance across Custom Networks and CN Shared Resources. You will develop data-driven models linking demand with workforce supply and business priorities.

You will collaborate with project controls, operations, engineering, finance, and executives to identify capacity gaps, vacancies, and risks, delivering clear recommendations for leadership decisions.