Project Controls Manager

Rosendin Electric, Inc. is an employee-owned electrical contractor delivering major construction and renewable energy projects. The Project Controls Manager will lead cost control, financial reconciliation, risk management, forecasting, and reporting for large renewable energy EPC projects from pre-construction through final closeout. The role also manages project controls analysts, develops standards, and drives governance and portfolio analytics initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the project controls analyst team, support their needs, and train them in all site operations pertaining to the analyst role
• Develop expectations and responsibilities for field project controls personnel
• Assist the Director in developing a productivity report that will be reported on a weekly basis to upper management and oversee that specific reporting
• Solve complex financial and operational problems uncovered by the analysis team
• Verify proper tracking across all project cost codes and verify coding against work orders
• Reconcile project budgets against actual dollars spent continuously
• Review the CAC for accuracy and variances prior to the monthly CAC meetings while analyzing project cost variances against baselines regularly
• Identify financial discrepancies and offer corrective actions. Prepare reporting for the root cause of large overruns
• Update Estimate-at-Completion models using field progress data
• Identify financial and operational risks early, evaluate subcontractor and owner change orders for cost impact, maintain the project legal and back charge log, and mitigate potential claims against project contingency
• As the Project Controls department matures, this role will champion new initiatives, scale existing governance frameworks, and absorb advanced portfolio analytics functions

Requirements:

• • Problem-Solving Skills: Advanced capability to diagnose issues and implement solutions from analytical data
• • Technical Cost Control: Expert knowledge of project-wide cost breakdown structures, comprehensive cost coding, and back charge workflows
• • Leadership Experience: Proven ability to manage, train, and develop a team of financial or cost analysts
• • Site Experience: Proven track record of successfully collaborating with remote or on-site project teams
• • Software Skills: Expert in cost-tracking software, advanced Excel/Power BI, and ERP systems
• • Knowledge: Deep understanding of financial reconciliation, Earned Value Management, and contract types
• • Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting or construction management, or Engineering or 10 + years of direct project controls, project management within the EPC sector
• • Experience: 10 years of heavy cost controls, field support, project management or billing management experience in EPC or construction with at least 5 years on renewable energy products
• • General work environment – sitting for long periods, standing, walking, typing, carrying, pushing, bending. Work is conducted primarily indoors with varying environmental conditions such as fluorescent lighting and air conditioning
• • Noise level is usually low to medium; it can be loud on the jobsite
• • Occasional lifting of up to 30 lbs
• Certifications: PMP or EVP is a +