Controls Specialist (Assoc - Senior)

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you.

About the role

The Project Controls Specialist plays a critical role in supporting the successful execution of electric distribution infrastructure projects. This position develops, implements, and coordinates planning, estimating, cost control, performance reporting, and data analytics processes. In addition to core project controls responsibilities, the role strengthens the team’s ability to extract, transform, validate, analyze, and visualize data from enterprise systems so leaders and project teams can act on reliable, decision-ready information. The Controls Specialist helps ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with strategic objectives while advancing reporting automation, continuous improvement, process standardization, and team development.

Responsibilities

• Lead detailed analyses of project progress, schedule, and budget.
• Track milestones and deliverables across stakeholder groups.
• Monitor expenditures, conduct variance analysis, and provide accurate forecasting.
• Deliver actionable insights and status reports to cross-functional teams and leadership, highlighting trends, risks, drivers, recommended actions, and decision needs.
• Extract, validate, and analyze enterprise data to identify trends, exceptions, and data-quality issues.
• Develop repeatable analytical workflows, reports, and dashboards that reduce manual effort and improve visibility into project cost, schedule, resources, materials, and performance.
• Identify and mitigate project risks.
• Manage change orders and events by assessing impacts on budget, scope, schedule, resources, and forecast, while ensuring proper ownership, documentation, and approvals.
• Create and maintain process maps and documentation for estimating, scheduling, reporting, and change management workflows. Promote clarity and consistency across teams.
• Support training and mentoring of team members.
• Drive continuous improvement through best practices and lessons learned.

Requirements

• 2-3+ years of relevant experience in a directly related field
• Knowledge of cost controls principles
• Good verbal, writing, and presentation skills
• Effective work and project management skills
• Effective decision-making and problem-solving abilities
• Effective math and computer skills
• Effective analytical skills
• Ability to work effectively with employees at all levels and external personnel
• Consistently applies good business judgment
• Applies analytical abilities to diverse issues
• Manages multiple priorities and meets deadlines
• Ability to verify data and present statistical reports and documentation

Qualifications

Preferred Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in the following disciplines: Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Project Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, and Applied Mathematics
• Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above
• Technical Licenses, Certifications, or Qualifications (if applicable)

Working Conditions

• Cold: Up to 25%
• Loud Noise: Up to 25%
• Office Work Environment: 76-100%
• Outdoors: Up to 25%
• Radiation: Up to 25%
• Travel: Up to 25%
• No Testing Required

Pay

Expected Hiring Base Salary Range:

• Associate: $58,700 to $76,200
• Controls Specialist: $73,200 to $95,000
• Senior: $90,900 to $118,100

The expected hiring base salary range is the range we anticipate hiring within for this position. The actual salary offered may vary based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and work location. This is not intended to represent the full salary range for the position or limit future compensation growth.

Benefits

At Dominion Energy, we offer excellent plans and programs for employees. Employees are rewarded with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package which includes:

• Health, dental, and vision benefits with coverage for families and domestic partners
• Vacation
• Retirement plans including 401k contributions and matches
• Paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Bonus eligibility
• Sick leave
• Disability insurance

Learn more about our benefits.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E3-E5, W1-W2, or O1-O3, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined above will be considered for this opportunity.