Project Controller

Job Summary
Project Controller plays a key role within CME Solar's PMU, responsible for planning, scheduling, monitoring, and controlling major solar and hydropower projects. The role ensures efficient project execution through strong data management, accurate reporting, and proactive controls, contributing to effective decisions-making, risk management, and resource optimization.
Main Responsibilities
Project Planning & Schedule Development:
- Maintain detailed Work Breakdown Structures for large-scale projects.
- Develop and manage project schedules incorporating activities, durations, resource loading, logical predecessors, and constraints.
- Identify and monitor critical activities, potential schedule risks, and critical resource paths across multiple projects.
- Establish and manage scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
Progress Monitoring & Control:
- Develop and improve data collection tools/methods for accurate progress reporting.
- Coordinate with Engineering, Procurement, Construction, QA/QC, and HSE for timely data submission.
- Update schedules regularly with actual progress.
- Measure and analyze schedule variances (SV) and calculate Schedule Performance Index (SPI) against the established baseline.
- Perform impact analyses of delays or potential risks on key milestones and projected completion dates for each assigned project.
Cost Control & Analysis:
- Integrate cost and schedule data to monitor and control actual project expenditures against the approved budget for each assigned project.
- Support Estimate at Completion (EAC) and Estimate to Complete (ETC) forecasting and evaluate financial impacts of changes.
Risk & Change Management Support:
- Support risk identification, assessment, and mitigation planning.
- Evaluate schedule and cost impacts of Change Requests and prepare impact analyses.
Reporting & Communication:
- Prepare weekly/monthly/quarterly performance reports (Gantt charts, S-curves, variances, summaries).
- Coordinate with internal/external stakeholders (JV, OE, lenders, EPC, suppliers, site teams).
- Develop customized dashboards for clear data visualization.
- Ensure effective communication of planning/control information.