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Job Title: Project Controller
Contract Length: 12+ Month contract
Hybrid Work (Some on site work)
Location: Covington, LA 70433
Ref# 245856
Provides functional leadership and project controls expertise supporting a global Asset Retirement portfolio. This role partners closely with project teams, business units, and functional stakeholders to enable cost and schedule predictability, robust forecasting, and disciplined change management across a diverse portfolio of decommissioning, remediation, and abandonment projects.
The position serves as a trusted advisor, applying standardized project controls practices while tailoring solutions to the unique risks and execution challenges of global asset retirement work.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio & Project Controls Leadership
- Provide project controls and cost engineering advisory support across a global Asset Retirement portfolio, including onshore, offshore, and legacy assets
- Steward project controls standards and ensure consistent application across projects and regions
- Act as a key interface between leadership, project managers, finance, supply chain, and execution teams
Cost Management & Forecasting
- Develop, maintain, and steward cost baselines, budgets, and forecasts (including Estimate at Completion)
- Support annual business planning, long-range planning, and portfolio-level forecasting
- Analyze cost trends, variances, and risks; provide clear insights and decision-ready recommendations
Schedule & Performance Integration
- Partner with planners/schedulers to ensure integrated cost, schedule, and progress measurement
- Monitor performance against targets and highlight emerging risks and opportunities
- Support milestone tracking and schedule risk awareness at project and portfolio levels
Change Management & Risk
- Lead or support cost engineering management of change processes for scope, cost, and schedule changes
- Support risk assessment activities, including contingency analysis and portfolio risk insights
- Provide input to assurance reviews, lookbacks, and continuous improvement initiatives
Reporting & Digital Enablement
- Maintain project controls systems and ensure data quality and transparency
- Develop and steward cost, schedule, and performance reporting, including dashboards and executive summaries
- Contribute to data analytics, benchmarking, and digital transformation efforts
Collaboration & Capability Development
- Coach and mentor project teams and less experienced project controls practitioners
- Share best practices and lessons learned across regions and projects
- Collaborate with global teams to drive consistency, efficiency, and continuous improvement
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, or a related discipline
- Significant experience in project controls and cost engineering
- Strong working knowledge of cost estimating, budgeting, forecasting, progress measurement, and change management
- Experience supporting portfolios or programs with multiple projects and stakeholders
- Ability to clearly communicate complex cost and schedule information to technical and non-technical audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting asset retirement, decommissioning, remediation, or late-life asset portfolios
- Familiarity with stage-gate project delivery systems
- Experience with project controls and analytics tools such as EcoSys, SAP, or Power BI
- Demonstrated ability to influence across global, cross-functional teams
- Professional certifications (AACE, PMP, or equivalent)