Project Controls Manager

Location: Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States; office environment with possible work at customer sites, including industrial and electric utility facilities

Company

hirify.global is a 100% employee-owned company with eight divisions and more than 75 locations across ten states, serving electrical, automation, pipe, valve, fitting, steam, lighting, industrial controls, and instrumentation industries.

What you will do

• Lead project planning, cost control, scheduling, forecasting, reporting, and performance management across the project portfolio.
• Establish and monitor budgets, cost codes, forecasts, commitments, actual costs, estimate-at-completion projections, and project profitability.
• Oversee schedule development, baseline and updated schedules, milestone tracking, recovery plans, critical-path analysis, and resource constraints.
• Lead manpower and resource forecasting, analyzing labor budgets, actual hours, productivity trends, remaining work, and staffing requirements.
• Track and report change orders, contract modifications, claims, back charges, customer-directed scope changes, risks, and commercial impacts.
• Develop project controls standards, dashboards, KPIs, executive reporting packages, and system improvements across ERP, CRM, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and related tools.

Requirements

• 10 years of progressive experience in project controls, project management, or a related discipline supporting complex projects with multiple vendors, schedules, budgets, and contractual requirements.
• Experience leading people, processes, or cross-functional project teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, engineering, construction management, business management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills and advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data models, Power Query, and structured reporting.
• Strong knowledge of project accounting, cost controls, forecasting, Earned Value Management, scheduling principles, and project lifecycle management.
• Ability to translate complex portfolio data into actionable recommendations for senior leadership and experience with ERP systems, project management software, scheduling tools, and business intelligence platforms.
• Strong organization and prioritization skills, including managing competing initiatives, delegating, allocating resources, establishing operating rhythms, and delivering on time.
• Ability to lead and influence across finance, operations, engineering, project management, sales, and commercial teams.
• Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, facilitation, interpersonal, decision-making, and confidentiality skills.
• Ability to see, talk, and hear and to sit for 8 hours per day; reasonable accommodations may be provided.

Nice to have

• Experience in project-centric manufacturing, industrial automation, utility projects, EPC, construction, or engineered-to-order environments.
• Experience with ERP systems for job costing, labor tracking, purchasing, inventory, production, and project accounting.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint, Smartsheet, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with liquidated damages, milestones, payment terms, change orders, retainage, claims, and back charges.
• Experience developing project dashboards, manpower forecasting tools, earned value reports, and executive-level project review packages.
• PMP, CCP, PSP, EVP, CMA, or similar professional certification.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% employee-owned company with an ownership-focused culture.
• Opportunities for learning, growth, coaching, mentoring, and continuous improvement.
• Values include customer focus, partnership, accountability, purpose-driven progress, teamwork, strategic thinking, and developing talent.
• Work takes place in an office environment, with customer-site conditions potentially ranging from indoor to outdoor industrial and electric utility facilities.