Remote Special Projects Officer Jobs
Remote Special Projects Officer jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors like nonprofit management, government consulting, healthcare administration, and technology operations, at organizations ranging from fully distributed startups to large remote-first enterprises. Employers hiring remotely right now include The Foth Companies, Blattner Company, and JLL. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Project Control Cost Major Projects, Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll provide comprehensive cost estimating and project controls support for major and multi-year projects and programs throughout the project lifecycle. You'll develop budgets, forecasts, cash flows, expenditure plans, and detailed cost estimates by integrating scope, schedule, risk, funding, and stakeholder inputs.
Key Focus Areas
- Financial Performance Monitoring & Analysis: Monitor project financial performance, evaluate cost and schedule impacts, analyze variances, and provide recommendations to support business decisions.
- Cost Management & Forecasting: Develop and maintain budgets, forecasts, cash flows, and expenditure plans to ensure effective financial planning and project execution.
- Change Control & Variance Management: Manage change-control processes, assess impacts to cost and schedule baselines, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Project Cost Estimating & Benchmarking: Aggregate, validate, and reconcile project costs, leveraging historical benchmarks and industry data to improve estimate accuracy.
- Performance Metrics & Reporting: Implement, analyze, and report project performance using SCE and industry-standard metrics to drive accountability and informed decision-making.
- Capital Project Financial Oversight: Support the financial management and governance of major capital projects through cost analysis, reporting, and approval processes.
- Regulatory Compliance & Governance Support: Prepare financial documentation and workpapers supporting corporate governance, regulatory filings, audits, SOX controls, and cost recovery activities.
- Financial Reporting & Business Planning: Develop operating plans, financial reports, and supporting analyses for internal leadership, public reporting, and enterprise planning initiatives.
As a Project Control Cost Major Projects, Senior Specialist, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with scheduling and planning teams to integrate cost data into project schedules and resource allocation plans.
- Conducts cost audits and reviews to validate project costs and ensure alignment with project scope and contractual requirements.
- Reviews contractor bids and proposals to ensure compliance with project requirements and cost competitiveness.
- Reviews and analyzes claims and change orders and assists with preparation of cost data for engineering procurement and construction contracts.
- Participates in contract negotiations and procurement activities to secure favorable pricing and terms for materials, equipment, and services.
- Collaborates with legal counsel and risk management teams to assess and mitigate cost-related risks and liabilities.
- Identifies and evaluates cost-saving opportunities through alternative project plans, materials, or vendors. Performs complete analysis and cost validations using internal and external benchmarking data, historical indices, and component benchmarking.
- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Five or more years of experience in engineering cost controls, estimating, planning, and risk assessment for major construction projects.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Microsoft Excel and Power BI for project cost analysis, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial reporting; familiarity with Microsoft SharePoint and SAP or similar enterprise financial systems.
- Experience supporting project cost controls for utility, infrastructure, engineering, construction, or other capital projects, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, and expenditure plans.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze project financial performance, identify and explain cost variances and trends, assess cost impacts, and develop recommendations that support project and business decisions.
- Experience supporting change control, cost-impact analysis, risk and contingency management, and forecast-at-completion updates throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ability to reconcile project cost data across work orders, purchase orders, forecasts, customer agreements, and financial reporting systems while maintaining accurate and auditable records.
- Experience partnering with project managers, engineering, construction, contracts, finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders to obtain cost inputs, validate assumptions, and communicate financial risks and changes.
- Familiarity with customer-funded utility projects, including Interconnection Facilities and Added Facilities, customer payments, billing/true-up activities, work-order structures, and cost communication.
- Knowledge of utility project lifecycle and cost-control practices, including budgeting, forecasting, monthly financial reporting, variance analysis, and project closeout.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- The primary work location for this position is Pomona, CA (Pomona Innovation Village). However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at other locations throughout your assigned service territory.
- Relocation does not apply to this position.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Nearest Major Market: Los Angeles
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Project Control Cost Major Projects, Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll provide comprehensive cost estimating and project controls support for major and multi-year projects and programs throughout the project lifecycle. You'll develop budgets, forecasts, cash flows, expenditure plans, and detailed cost estimates by integrating scope, schedule, risk, funding, and stakeholder inputs.
Key Focus Areas
- Financial Performance Monitoring & Analysis: Monitor project financial performance, evaluate cost and schedule impacts, analyze variances, and provide recommendations to support business decisions.
- Cost Management & Forecasting: Develop and maintain budgets, forecasts, cash flows, and expenditure plans to ensure effective financial planning and project execution.
- Change Control & Variance Management: Manage change-control processes, assess impacts to cost and schedule baselines, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Project Cost Estimating & Benchmarking: Aggregate, validate, and reconcile project costs, leveraging historical benchmarks and industry data to improve estimate accuracy.
- Performance Metrics & Reporting: Implement, analyze, and report project performance using SCE and industry-standard metrics to drive accountability and informed decision-making.
- Capital Project Financial Oversight: Support the financial management and governance of major capital projects through cost analysis, reporting, and approval processes.
- Regulatory Compliance & Governance Support: Prepare financial documentation and workpapers supporting corporate governance, regulatory filings, audits, SOX controls, and cost recovery activities.
- Financial Reporting & Business Planning: Develop operating plans, financial reports, and supporting analyses for internal leadership, public reporting, and enterprise planning initiatives.
As a Project Control Cost Major Projects, Senior Specialist, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with scheduling and planning teams to integrate cost data into project schedules and resource allocation plans.
- Conducts cost audits and reviews to validate project costs and ensure alignment with project scope and contractual requirements.
- Reviews contractor bids and proposals to ensure compliance with project requirements and cost competitiveness.
- Reviews and analyzes claims and change orders and assists with preparation of cost data for engineering procurement and construction contracts.
- Participates in contract negotiations and procurement activities to secure favorable pricing and terms for materials, equipment, and services.
- Collaborates with legal counsel and risk management teams to assess and mitigate cost-related risks and liabilities.
- Identifies and evaluates cost-saving opportunities through alternative project plans, materials, or vendors. Performs complete analysis and cost validations using internal and external benchmarking data, historical indices, and component benchmarking.
- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Five or more years of experience in engineering cost controls, estimating, planning, and risk assessment for major construction projects.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Microsoft Excel and Power BI for project cost analysis, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial reporting; familiarity with Microsoft SharePoint and SAP or similar enterprise financial systems.
- Experience supporting project cost controls for utility, infrastructure, engineering, construction, or other capital projects, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, and expenditure plans.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze project financial performance, identify and explain cost variances and trends, assess cost impacts, and develop recommendations that support project and business decisions.
- Experience supporting change control, cost-impact analysis, risk and contingency management, and forecast-at-completion updates throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ability to reconcile project cost data across work orders, purchase orders, forecasts, customer agreements, and financial reporting systems while maintaining accurate and auditable records.
- Experience partnering with project managers, engineering, construction, contracts, finance, and other cross-functional stakeholders to obtain cost inputs, validate assumptions, and communicate financial risks and changes.
- Familiarity with customer-funded utility projects, including Interconnection Facilities and Added Facilities, customer payments, billing/true-up activities, work-order structures, and cost communication.
- Knowledge of utility project lifecycle and cost-control practices, including budgeting, forecasting, monthly financial reporting, variance analysis, and project closeout.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- The primary work location for this position is Pomona, CA (Pomona Innovation Village). However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at other locations throughout your assigned service territory.
- Relocation does not apply to this position.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Nearest Major Market: Los Angeles
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Construction & Real Estate
- Investment & Asset Management
- Manufacturing
- Staffing & Recruiting
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote special projects officer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in public administration, business administration, or a related field
- Experience managing cross-functional projects from planning through delivery
- Proficiency in project management tools such as Asana, Monday.com, or Microsoft Project
- Strong written communication skills for executive briefings, memos, and reports
- Ability to analyze data and present findings clearly to senior leadership
- Familiarity with change management frameworks or organizational development principles
Tips for Your Remote Special Projects Officer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote special projects officer openings from across the U.S. in one place so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly. Remote postings at distributed organizations often close quickly, so checking regularly gives you an advantage.
Show your async communication skills upfront
Remote employers screen for written clarity before the first interview. Lead your resume and cover letter with examples of how you've coordinated complex projects through written updates, shared documents, or project management platforms like Asana, Monday, or Notion.
Build a remote project portfolio
Compile two or three documented examples of initiatives you led independently from start to finish, including your planning process, stakeholders you coordinated, and outcomes you delivered. Remote hiring managers want concrete proof you can drive projects without in-person structure.
Target organizations with distributed teams
Remote special projects officer roles concentrate at fully distributed nonprofits, remote-first consulting firms, and technology companies with no central headquarters. Focusing your search on organizations structured this way means roles are built for remote execution rather than adapted from an in-office model.
Remote Special Projects Officer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote special projects officer job?
Remote special projects officer roles go to candidates who can demonstrate strong self-direction, clear written communication, and the ability to manage complex initiatives without in-person oversight. Organizations hiring remotely prioritize proven project management skills, comfort with async collaboration tools, and the ability to synthesize information across distributed teams. Certifications like PMP or Lean Six Sigma, plus a portfolio of completed cross-functional projects, sharpen your edge.
Which companies hire remote special projects officers?
Remote special projects officer roles are posted by The Foth Companies, Blattner Company, and JLL and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These include remote-first technology firms, distributed nonprofit organizations, and consulting companies with geographically dispersed teams that rely on special projects officers to coordinate strategic initiatives across locations.
Can you get a remote special projects officer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level special projects officer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to operate independently from day one without on-site mentorship. Smaller remote-first nonprofits and early-stage startups are more likely to consider candidates without formal experience. Demonstrating volunteer coordination, freelance project management, or strong written planning samples can substitute for a traditional employment history and open the door to remote opportunities.
Do you need a degree for remote special projects officer jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers prioritize demonstrated project management ability, organizational skills, and results over a specific credential. A bachelor's degree in public administration, business, or a related field helps and is often listed as preferred, but employers also weigh certifications, practical experience managing cross-functional projects, and a clear record of delivering complex work on time and within scope.
Which industries hire the most remote special projects officers?
Most remote special projects officer openings sit in Construction & Real Estate, Investment & Asset Management, and Manufacturing, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely heavily on remote special projects officers because their distributed teams require dedicated professionals to coordinate initiatives, manage stakeholder communication, and drive deliverables across time zones without centralized offices.
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