Project Controller
Overview of Role:
A Project Controller is the "navigator" of a project’s lifecycle, ensuring that complex initiatives stay on track, on time, and within baseline. While the Program Manager focuses on leading people and overall execution, the Project Controller focuses on the data, analyzing costs, program tasks, and schedule status to provide a transparent picture of project health. They use tools, metrics and techniques to report on variances and earned value. The Project Controller will report to the Head of Program Management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cost and Schedule Management: Establishing the project’s baseline schedule and cost. They manage the "Commitment" vs. "Actual" expenditure, ensuring that the project remains financially viable throughout its duration.
- Scheduling and Planning: Developing and maintaining the project’s Integrated Master schedule (IMS). They identify the "Critical Path"—the sequence of stages that determines the minimum time needed for the project—and alert program management if any link in the chain is slipping.
- Earned Value Management (EVM): Utilizes the industry-standard EVM method to measure project performance. By comparing the value of work actually performed against the planned value, they can mathematically predict the final cost and completion date.
- Forecasting and Trend Analysis: Looking ahead to predict future performance based on current data. Project Controllers identify trends and provide "What-If" scenarios to help program management make informed course corrections.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business or Project Management
- 10–12 years of experience in project controls or cost engineering.
- May have professional certification such as AACE CCP (Certified Cost Professional) or PMP (Program Management Professional).
- Mastery of MS Project and Earned Value Management (EVM).
- Strong communication skills to present complex data to non-technical stakeholders.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary pay range for exempt: $95,000 – 169,000
Liquid Robotics designs and manufactures Wave Gliders®, the first wave and solar powered autonomous ocean robots. With our partners we address many of the planet’s greatest challenges, by transforming how to assess, monitor, and protect the ocean. We solve critical problems for defense, commercial, and science customers.
Visit us at www.liquid-robotics.com to learn more.
Liquid Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, or Project Management
- 10-12 years of experience in project controls or cost engineering
- Mastery of MS Project
- Earned Value Management (EVM) expertise
- Strong communication skills to present complex data to non-technical stakeholders
- AACE CCP certification
- PMP certification
What We Do
Liquid Robotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, designs and manufactures the Wave Glider, the world’s first wave and solar powered uncrewed ocean robot. Based in Herndon, Virginia, and with an Engineering & Test Facility in Hawai’i, Liquid Robotics works with global partners to address many of the planet’s greatest challenges, by transforming how to assess, monitor, and protect the ocean. Since 2007, Liquid Robotics has conducted 100s of Wave Glider missions around the globe, from the Arctic to Antarctica, for customers in the defense, commercial, and science markets.
