Project Control Manager (Remote)
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with project managers on various initiatives and projects to track progress and provide support as necessary.
- Support leadership in ensuring that the project is delivered to specifications, is on time, and within budget.
- Work closely with management and work groups to create and maintain work plan documents.
- Track the status and due dates of projects.
- Manage relationships with project staff responsible for projects.
- Produce regular weekly and monthly status reports that could include; work plan status, target dates, budget, resource capacity, and other reports as needed.
- Facilitate regular meetings and reviews.
- Adhere to contract requirements and comply with all corporate policies and procedures.
JOB SPECIFIC DUTIES
Integrated Planning and Scheduling
⢠- Own, maintain, and govern the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across all project workstreams, vendors, and stakeholders.
⢠- Develop and maintain Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) aligned with approved scope and deliverables.
⢠- Consolidate schedules from multiple teams, vendors, and project managers into a unified program schedule.
⢠- Identify and manage task, milestone, resource, and dependency relationships.
⢠- Perform critical path analysis and schedule impact assessments.
⢠- Conduct schedule forecasting and what-if scenario modeling to support executive decision-making.
⢠- Establish and maintain schedule baselines and governance processes.
Project Controls and Performance Management
⢠- Monitor project performance against approved schedule, scope, and budget baselines.
⢠- Track progress, remaining effort, milestone achievement, and schedule variance.
⢠- Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, status reports, and project controls metrics.
⢠- Analyze trends and proactively identify risks to schedule performance.
⢠- Provide recommendations and recovery plans for schedule slippage or delivery challenges.
⢠- Ensure project controls processes are consistently applied across all project workstreams.
Risk, Issue, Scope, and Change Management
⢠- Establish and maintain project control protocols for risk management, issue management, scope management, and change control.
⢠- Continuously evaluate project risks and coordinate mitigation planning.
⢠- Assess schedule, resource, and delivery impacts associated with proposed changes.
⢠- Ensure scope changes are appropriately documented, justified, approved, and incorporated into project baselines.
⢠- Maintain issue logs, decision logs, risk registers, and change control documentation.
⢠- Support audit readiness and compliance reporting activities.
Resource and Dependency Management
⢠- Support resource planning, capacity analysis, forecasting, and workload balancing.
⢠- Identify resource constraints and coordinate mitigation strategies.
⢠- Perform resource allocation and leveling analysis.
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- Rate: Not Specified
- Location: Chicago, US-IL
- Type: Permanent
- Industry: Finance
- Recruiter: Maximus
- Contact: Not Specified
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- Reference: 42979_IL_Chicago_AP
- Posted: 2026-08-22 11:57:48 -
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