Senior Project Controller

ICM Ventures Inc; Kansas; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ICM Ventures Inc. is seeking a Senior Project Controller to design and implement a robust project controls function across cost, schedule, risk, and documentation. The role focuses on turning data into actionable insight and building an operating rhythm for complex programs.

You will lead standards for setup, baselines, reporting, and change control while using Dynamics 365, Power BI, and common Microsoft tools to deliver decision-ready updates to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, Operations, or a related discipline required.
• Equivalent project controls experience may be considered for highly qualified candidates.
• Experience building project controls standards, dashboards, and forecasts.

Responsibilities

• Build the project controls operating system with standards for setup, codes, schedules, baselines, and reporting rhythms.
• Create cost and schedule visibility with budgets, commitments, actuals, forecasts, and milestones.
• Turn performance data into early action using variance analysis, trends, and forecast reviews.
• Own the change management process from identification through pricing and baseline updates.
• Maintain risk registers, opportunity logs, mitigation plans, and escalation triggers for leadership review.
• Ensure schedules, cost reports, change records, risk logs, and closeout records are accurate and retrievable.

Skills

Project controls

Forecasting

Data analysis

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, Operations, or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Power BI

Excel

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Job Description

POSITION PURPOSE

ICM is building a stronger, more scalable project delivery system, and project controls will be one of the core disciplines that makes that possible. The Senior Project Controller will help create the structure, visibility, and operating rhythm needed to manage complex work with greater confidence across cost, schedule, margin, risk, documentation, and execution performance.

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

This is an opportunity to help design a project controls function, not simply inherit one. ICM is moving toward proactive project control: earlier signals, cleaner data, stronger handoffs, better forecasts, faster escalation, and fewer surprises. The person in this role will help define what reliable project performance management looks like across Operations.

WHO WILL THRIVE IN THIS ROLE

This role is well suited for someone who enjoys building order out of complexity. The ideal candidate is experienced enough to know what good project controls look like, practical enough to adapt those practices to a developing environment, and hands-on enough to work directly in schedules, cost reports, change logs, dashboards, and project data. This is not an entry-level position, and it is not a role for someone who only wants to manage from a distance.

• You see a weak forecast, unclear baseline, missing change log, or unreliable schedule as a problem worth solving.
• You are comfortable challenging assumptions with facts and helping teams move from explanation to corrective action.
• You can operate between the details and the big picture: reconciling data one moment and briefing leadership the next.
• You want to build something that lasts, standards, dashboards, rhythms, and habits that make projects easier to control over time.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND BASIC DUTIES

The Senior Project Controller will bring clarity, discipline, and forward-looking insight to complex project execution. This role turns project data into action by building practical controls, surfacing risks early, and helping teams make better decisions before cost, schedule, or margin are impacted. Key responsibilities include:

• Build the project controls operating system. Establish practical standards for project setup, cost codes, schedules, baselines, reporting rhythms, change control, risk tracking, document control, and closeout so project teams have a clear, repeatable way to control the work.
• Create cost and schedule visibility. Maintain budgets, commitments, actuals, forecasts, margin outlooks, integrated schedules, milestones, critical path, lookaheads, and recovery plans that show where projects really stand and where they are headed.
• Turn performance data into early action. Use variance analysis, earned value concepts, trends, progress measurement, productivity indicators, and forecast reviews to identify issues early and help teams move from explanation to corrective action.
• Control change before it controls the project. Own the change management process from identification through pricing, schedule impact, approval, documentation, and baseline updates so scope, cost, and schedule impacts are visible and managed.
• Make risk, opportunity, and capacity visible. Maintain risk registers, opportunity logs, mitigation plans, contingency assumptions, resource demand views, and escalation triggers that help leaders see constraints and make timely trade-off decisions.
• Strengthen project data and document discipline. Help ensure schedules, cost reports, change records, risk logs, action items, drawings, customer deliverables, and closeout records are accurate, version-controlled, retrievable, and maintained in approved systems.
• Deliver decision-ready reporting. Prepare concise project and portfolio reports, dashboards, and leadership updates that clearly communicate status, forecasted outcomes, key variances, risks, decisions needed, and corrective actions.
• Improve systems, tools, and adoption. Use and help improve Microsoft Dynamics 365, scheduling tools, Power BI or similar reporting platforms, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, and related workflows while coaching project teams on consistent project controls practices.
• Build lessons learned into the next project. Support closeout, root cause reviews, and post-project analysis to capture recurring issues, improve standards, and make each project easier to plan, control, and deliver than the last.

Education / Certification

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, Operations, or a related discipline required. Equivalent project controls experience may be considered for highly qualified candidates.