Senior Lead Project Controls Specialist

Jobgether SRL; United States; Remote; USD 106,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote in the United States

Health & life insurance

Incentive opportunities

Job summary

Jobgether SRL seeks a Senior Lead Project Controls Specialist based in the United States. This high-visibility individual contributor will own resource planning, OPEX governance, and capacity across complex programs, building data-driven models that bridge demand with workforce supply and priorities.

You’ll collaborate with project controls, program management, operations, finance, product, and leadership to identify gaps and deliver practical recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Analytics, or related field.
• Experience with resource models, capacity plans, dashboards, and scenario analyses.
• Experience in project controls, governance, or workforce planning.
• Ability to influence across squads in matrixed environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead short-, medium-, and long-term resource planning across teams.
• Build resource supply-and-demand models including vacancies, skills, and capacity.
• Develop scenario plans, dashboards, and reporting tools for visibility.
• Identify gaps and risks, translating into actionable options for leaders.
• Align resource plans with schedules, budgets, and priorities.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning and governance sessions.
• Translate data into concise executive recommendations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Facilitation

Organizational skills

Ambiguity management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Business/Analytics or related

Tools

Excel

Power BI

SAP

Planview

Clarity

Anaplan

Adaptive Planning

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Lead Project Controls Specialist based in the United States.

This is a high-visibility individual contributor role focused on resource planning, operational expenditure governance, and delivery capacity across complex project environments.

You'll build data-driven models that connect customer and project demand with workforce supply, business priorities, and available delivery capacity.

The role requires close collaboration with project controls, program management, operations, engineering, finance, product, and business leadership teams.

You'll identify resource gaps, contractor requirements, vacancies, skill constraints, and delivery risks while developing practical recommendations for senior decision-makers.

The position combines advanced analytics, scenario planning, forecasting, governance, and executive communication within a large, matrixed organization.

You'll also improve planning standards, reporting processes, data quality, and forecast reliability to strengthen operational and financial decision-making.

This is an opportunity to influence major business commitments through rigorous planning, actionable insights, and effective cross-functional alignment.

Accountabilities:

• Lead short-, medium-, and long-term resource planning across project teams and business functions, ensuring workforce capacity remains aligned with delivery requirements and evolving priorities.
• Build and maintain comprehensive resource supply-and-demand models incorporating workload, project priorities, vacancies, contractor requirements, skills, utilization, and capacity constraints.
• Develop scenario-planning frameworks, dashboards, and reporting tools that provide clear visibility into resource demand, capacity, contractor mix, vacancies, and potential planning risks.
• Identify resource gaps, skill shortages, capacity constraints, and delivery risks, translating analysis into practical options and recommendations for business leaders.
• Partner with leadership teams to 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 complex data, forecasts, and modeling outputs into concise executive-level recommendations, decision materials, and actionable insights.
• Strengthen planning standards, data quality, reporting cadence, governance routines, and forecasting processes to improve organizational planning reliability.
• Develop and maintain deployment-driven revenue realization schedules on a month-over-month basis, translating field deployment milestones and delivery sequencing into business planning and forecasting assumptions for leadership, finance, and product teams.

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.
• Demonstrated 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, with the ability to create 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.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across teams in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
• Experience within telecommunications, technology, network deployment, infrastructure, or large-scale capital programs is preferred.
• 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.
• Professional certification in project management, project controls, analytics, or a related discipline is preferred.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary ranging from $105,786 to $155,152, depending on work location, skills, experience, and other relevant factors.
• Location-based compensation ranges, with the highest range applying to select states including California, Texas, New York, Washington, Massachusetts, and others.
• Comprehensive health, life, and voluntary lifestyle benefits designed to support physical, mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
• Additional compensation opportunities may include short-term incentives, long-term incentives, or other bonus structures, depending on eligibility.
• Fully remote work arrangement within the United States.
• Access to a broad range of employee wellbeing and lifestyle programs.
• Supportive, collaborative work environment with clear expectations and shared accountability.
• Opportunities to contribute to complex, high-impact initiatives within a technology-focused organization.

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