Project Controls Specialist - Integrated controls

Role overview

Project controls and cost management

• Develop controls plans, procedures, tools, reporting standards, and baselines for scope, schedule, cost, resources, and performance.
• Monitor performance against plans, maintain records, ensure compliance, and provide controls guidance and analysis.
• Develop budgets, forecasts, cash-flow profiles, and cost reports; track costs, commitments, accruals, purchase orders, invoices, and remaining budgets.
• Analyze cost variances, support earned value and estimate-at-completion analysis, validate financial data, and identify cost trends, overruns, or savings.

Schedule and performance reporting

• Develop and update schedules with project teams; monitor milestones, critical paths, deadlines, progress, delays, dependencies, and constraints.
• Review schedule logic and completeness; support forecasting, what-if analysis, and recovery planning; recommend schedule improvements.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reports, dashboards, executive summaries, presentations, and project review packs.
• Consolidate project data and report cost, schedule, progress, scope, risks, issues, changes, resources, and forecasts.

Risk, governance, and stakeholders

• Maintain risk, issue, opportunity, assumption, dependency, and change registers; assess impacts and support change approvals and mitigation.
• Validate reported progress and support project reviews, stage gates, governance meetings, assurance, audits, lessons learned, and closeout.
• Coordinate with project managers, planners, finance, procurement, contractors, vendors, and functional teams; communicate performance, trends, and corrective actions.
• Promote consistent use of project controls processes, systems, documentation, and reporting standards.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, construction management, finance, business, or a related discipline.
• 15 years of experience in project controls, project planning, cost control, project reporting, or project management.
• Experience managing project schedules, budgets, forecasts, and performance reports; strong knowledge of project controls, cost, schedule, and change control.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency and experience with project controls or management systems such as Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, SAP, Oracle, EcoSys, Power BI, Jira, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical, numerical, organizational, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills; ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Desired skills

• Project Management Professional certification or equivalent; earned value management and performance measurement experience.
• Experience in construction, engineering, infrastructure, energy, technology, or major transformation projects.
• Knowledge of contract administration, procurement, commercial management, and change management; experience developing automated dashboards and data models.

Additional desired experience