Sr Project Controls Mgr - Risk - 90352465 - Philadelphia/DC

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SUMMARY OF DUTIES:

The Sr. Manager Project Controls – Risk is a key leadership role responsible for driving effective management control and reporting for complex projects or programs. This position focuses on enhancing enterprise tools, systems, and work processes to accurately measure cost, schedule, and progress. Serving as a Master Scheduler and/or Master Risk Manager, the Sr. Manager leads the development of project dashboards, cost and resource performance reports, change logs, and risk registers. 

 

This role requires close collaboration with Executive Sponsors and Senior PMO Leaders to ensure alignment on high-complexity projects or moderate-complexity programs. Reporting to a senior project leader, the senior manager works under minimal supervision, leading a team of direct and matrixed control practitioners at the project or program level. This position is integral in managing risks and ensuring the successful execution of the project portfolio. 

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive risk management strategy in collaboration with the Project/Program team and leadership. 

• Lead the team by managing risks, issues, and opportunities. 

• Maintain the master Project/Program risk register, ensuring it is up-to-date and accurate. 

• Track and report on potential changes, providing visibility of cost and schedule impacts to the executive sponsor. 

• Integrate cost, schedule, and vendor data to enable comprehensive risk, schedule, and budget performance reporting. 

• Create and maintain reporting mechanisms, dashboards, and presentations to communicate project performance indicators. 

• Evaluate identified project risks, providing the project team with relevant risk mitigation and contingency planning data. 

• Develop and maintain risk control tools and workflows for the Project/Program. 

• Collaborate with business partners to assess project readiness for governance stage gates. 

• Support Executive status reviews, Governance meetings, and Change Control Boards. 

• Manage control data via approved systems such as EPPM and SharePoint. 

• Ensure adherence to Amtrak’s Enterprise Project Management methodology. 

• Perform change management duties as required. 

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction or Project Management, Business Administration, Transportation, or a related field. 

• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. 

• Strong project management skills  

• Strong focus on collaboration, team building, and customer service  

• Effectiveness working diplomatically across teams with varying objectives.  

• Strong oral and written communication skills across all levels  

• Ability to organize and present project portfolio reports, proposals, and other related portfolio information  

• Super-user of SharePoint, MSPS, Power BI/Access, and Primavera/oracle PPM tools  

• Mastery of project control tools and work processes. 

 

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge: 

• Risk Management – Expertise in risk, issue, and opportunity management, including maintaining risk registers. 

• Project Controls – Strong understanding