Project Controls Specialist

Integrated Project Controls Leadership

Lead Project Controls Function: Take full ownership of both the cost baseline and the schedule baseline for assigned projects, ensuring they are perfectly mirrored and synchronized.

Project Team Facilitation: Lead regular project status and financial review meetings, holding cross-functional teams accountable for budget updates, progress data, and schedule logic.

Management Reporting: Consolidate complex cost and schedule data into clear, executive-ready monthly performance reports, variance narratives, and dashboards for the Project Controls Manager.

Project Cost Control & Forecasting

• Budget & Spend Management: Establish and maintain the project cost baseline, tracking actual expenditure, commitments, and open purchase orders against the approved budget.
• Financial Forecasting: Conduct rigorous variance analysis and generate accurate Estimate at Completion (EAC) and Estimate to Complete (ETC) cash-flow forecasts.
• Earned Value & Progress Tracking: Apply Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) to track cost efficiency (CPI) and quantify physical progress against financial spend.
• Change Management: Evaluate, cost-justify, and process change orders, ensuring budget adjustments are accurately coded and integrated into the financial baseline.

Schedule Management & Analysis

• Primavera P6 Scheduling: Build, update, and maintain logically linked project schedules within Primavera P6, ensuring proper sequencing and resource loading.
• Schedule Health & Progress: Monitor schedule efficiency (SPI), track physical percent complete, and analyze the Critical Path to identify potential delays before they impact the project end-date.
• Impact Analysis: Perform time-impact analysis for proposed modifications or change orders to determine their exact effect on the project timeline.
• Interface & Compliance: Serve as the primary bridge connecting Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Project Finance/Accounting to ensure data consistency.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Hightly organized, able to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
• Team player – able to communicate and relate well with others.
• Proficient in both cost and scheduling systems.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Construction Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.

Experience

• 5–7 years of direct experience in project controls, with a strictly balanced background executing both comprehensive cost engineering and P6 scheduling functions.

Skills and Certifications

• Certifications (Preferred): CCP (Certified Cost Professional), PSP (Planning & Scheduling Professional), or progress toward certification.
• Financial & Cost Acumen: Deep understanding of project accounting, budgeting, forecasting methodologies, variance analysis, and cash flow modeling.
• Scheduling Proficiency: Strong, practical knowledge of Primavera P6, including critical path method (CPM) scheduling, logic constraints, and baseline management.
• Data Analytics & Excel Fluency: Advanced mastery of MS Excel (pivot tables, complex formulas, lookups) for deep-dive financial and data analysis; experience with Power BI is highly valued.
• Communication: Strong interpersonal and presentation skills, with the ability to translate technical scheduling metrics and financial data into clear, actionable insights for project teams.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Occasional lifting of office supplies or equipment up to 20 pounds.
• Ability to move around the office for daily tasks and meetings.

Location

Office-based with frequent, direct collaboration with project management and execution teams.

Travel

• Occasional travel to project sites or fabrication facilities as required to verify physical progress against reported costs and schedules.

Benefits

• The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary and will be eligible to participate in a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, and vision, basic life insurance, AD&D insurance, 401k, and PTO.