Program Controls Lead

Job description

• Lead the development, validation, and maintenance of integrated EPC project schedules from proposal and baseline development through execution and closeout.
• Build and maintain resource- and cost-loaded schedules in Primavera P6 and, where required, Microsoft Project, using appropriate work breakdown structures, calendars, coding, logic, constraints, and progress-measurement methods.
• Ensure schedule baselines reflect contractual milestones, the approved execution strategy, engineering and procurement plans, construction sequencing, commissioning requirements, and project risk considerations.
• Lead periodic schedule updates and schedule review meetings, ensuring status, remaining durations, forecast dates, resource requirements, and recovery actions reflect the latest execution conditions.
• Perform critical path, near-critical path, float, milestone, trend, and variance analysis; identify root causes and recommend practical mitigation, recovery, or acceleration strategies.
• Align schedule forecasts, resource histograms, estimate-at-completion projections, cash flow, and financial cost breakdown structures in partnership with Project Controls and Finance.
• Integrate approved changes into schedule and cost baselines and support the evaluation of time and cost impacts associated with change orders, claims, and execution deviations.
• Prepare concise schedule narratives, dashboards, earned value metrics, look-ahead reports, and executive-level insights for internal and external stakeholders.
• Support Project Managers in customer reviews and provide clear, evidence-based explanations of schedule performance, risks, assumptions, and required decisions.
• Promote consistent scheduling standards, templates, governance, and data quality across the portfolio, including alignment with the company PMIS and ERP environment.
• Provide technical coaching and guidance to schedulers and execution teams, and contribute to Project Controls training, awareness sessions, lessons learned, and functional improvement initiatives.
• Comply with all company health, safety, integrity, and code-of-conduct requirements while supporting a collaborative and customer-focused working environment.