Principal Project Controls Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Cost Management & Forecasting:
  • Establish and maintain project cost baselines, budgets, and forecasts with high certainty on large-scale construction projects
  • Lead earned value management (EVM) analysis, variance reporting, and trend analysis
  • Integrate cost data with site activities and vendor deliverables to ensure accurate financial tracking
  • Manage project contingency and risk reserves
  • Develop cost estimates and manage monthly accruals
  • Maintain cost systems and generate monthly cost reports and project documentation
• Project Controls Integration:
  • Understand phased project funding and manage roll-up of estimates into cost reports
  • Provide cost-schedule integration analysis to support critical path decisions
  • Work with field schedulers to update integrated schedules and perform impact analysis
  • Review and assess change orders for cost and schedule impacts
  • Coordinate with vendors to gather and verify cost and schedule updates through submittals, field walkdowns, and direct communication
• Reporting & Communication:
  • Generate monthly reports and site-specific documentation for PM/PD teams
  • Lead project controls reviews and status presentations
  • Support project funding submittals with detailed cost and schedule analysis
• Leadership & Collaboration:
  • Lead and coordinate the site project controls team
  • Serve as technical subject matter expert and mentor to project controls team members
  • Lead implementation of project controls methodologies and best practices
  • May supervise junior project controls staff as assigned
  • Support multiple projects simultaneously as required

Requirements

• Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Finance, or Business Administration AND 10 years of related work experience, OR
  • High School diploma/equivalent AND 14 years of related work experience
• Experience:
  • Demonstrated lead-level experience with complex EPC projects in power generation (Combined Cycle, Simple Cycle, Solar, or Battery construction)
  • Expert proficiency in cost forecasting and project controls methodologies on large-scale construction projects
  • High proficiency in MS Excel and cost management systems
  • Experience with Primavera P6, Ecosys, Maximo, and project controls reporting systems
  • Willingness to mobilize to field site

Nice-to-Have / Preferred Skills

• ECOSYS administration, configuration, and management experience
• Experience creating training packages and training teams on ECOSYS
• Web BI and Power BI data migration experience
• Familiarity with LoadSpring application
• Master's degree in Project Management, Finance, or Business Administration
• Professional certifications: AACE-CCC (Certified Cost Consultant), AACE-EVP (Earned Value Professional), or PMP (Project Management Professional)
• AACE-CEP, AACE-PSP, PMI-SP, or CAPM
• Proficiency with MS Project, ECOSYS, Primavera P6, Acumen Fuse, Business Objects, Prolog, Passport, Visio, Powerplant, PeopleSoft
• Strong collaborative team member with proven ability to work across functional groups