Principal Project Controls Manager
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Job Location:
Denver, CO - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 150000 - 165000
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a strategic and analytically driven Principal Project Controls Manager to design implement and optimize the standards processes and tools that underpin our project delivery ecosystem. This role is central to ensuring operational excellence across cost schedule risk and performance management while enabling accurate financial forecasting and strong alignment between project execution and business outcomes. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in project controls a strong understanding of revenue recognition and the ability to translate complex project data into actionable insights for both internal stakeholders and clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and implement project controls standards processes and tools aligned with PMO objectives
- Collaborate with PMO leadership to develop governance frameworks for cost schedule risk and performance reporting
- Establish clear relationships between project progress (earned value milestones) and revenue recognition rules
- Develop and maintain change control procedures to ensure scope cost and schedule impacts are documented and approved
- Establish KPIs and deploy dashboards for monitoring real time portfolio health and project delivery performance both internally and for client usage
- Develop dashboards that combine project performance indicators with financial KPIs
- Responsible for initial client organizational or project assessments defining delivery architecture and scaling teams based on strategic need
- Create templates and strategic processes for risk assessments cost control protocols and schedule baselines
- Develop and implement schedule control processes including progress measurement and critical path analysis
- Deliver risk and cost analysis during initial client engagements as value proposition
- Ensure alignment between project deliverables with invoicing triggers
- Ensure that project controls data (cost schedule resource utilization) feeds into financial systems for accurate revenue forecasting.
- Conduct variance analysis and predictive modeling for proactive mitigation.
- Quantify potential revenue impact and recommend mitigation strategies.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a related field such as Business Accounting Engineering or Project Management
- MBA and/or PMP preferred
- 15 years of related experience in utilities or a regulated industry
- Proven experience in project controls PMO operations or program management
- Proficiency with project management and analytics tools (e.g. Primavera MS Project Power BI Tableau).
This role is designated as remote giving you the flexibility to primarily work from home while staying actively connected to your team and projects. We value collaboration and responsiveness so we ask our remote team members to be available when in-office presence is neededsuch as for client meetings team events or training sessions. Our approach blends freedom with shared accountability making ENTRUST an exciting and supportive environment for professionals who thrive in remote work settings with clear respectful expectations.
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ENTRUST Solutions Group an ENR Top 100 company is a community of people 3000 strong who are committed to our clients and each other. We provide comprehensive and dependable engineering consulting and automation services to gas and electric utilities telecommunication service providers pipeline operators and industrial companies.
In return for top talent ENTRUST Solutions Group offers:
- Generous paid time off and benefits
- 401(k) retirement program with a company match
- Career development programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible work schedule
To learn more about ENTRUST Benefits and Culture please visit our company LinkedIn page and follow us at:
- This position pays between $150000 and $165000 annually and is an exempt position.
- Benefits offered include company sponsored medical dental vision and 401(k) plan with company match. Also offered are tuition reimbursement voluntary life disability critical illness accident and hospitalization plans. HSA or FSA medical accounts and FSA dependent care and transportation/parking accounts are also available. These benefits are subject to employee contribution amounts generally set annually.
- Full time employees are eligible to earn PTO hours.
- May be eligible for discretionary bonus as determined by the company.
ENTRUST Solutions Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. ENTRUST Solutions Group does not accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with ENTRUST Solutions Group.
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