Description
WSP is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join their Project Controls team. This individual can sit in our WSP locations in either Texas, Utah, Tennessee, or Nevada.
Your Impact As a Project Controls Specialist, you will:
- Build and maintain program/project schedules; monitor contractor and consultant schedules, identifying cost and scheduling issues and recommending resolutions to the Program Manager.
- Prepare cost estimates, budgets, forecasts, cash flows, and financial projections; support earned value management (EVM) tracking and reporting.
- Track and control project costs, including change management, cost coding, commitments, and accruals across active projects.
- Monitor schedule performance, critical path changes, and float, coordinating with contractors and consultants to resolve variances.
- Administer cost management/PMIS platforms (e.g., e-Builder, Procore, or similar); track acquisition packages for reimbursement and support invoice review and processing.
- Produce regular cost and schedule progress reports for the Program Manager and PMO, ensuring data feeding into Power BI dashboards is accurate and up to date.
- Support integration of cost and schedule data with Power BI reporting tools, coordinating with reporting/BI staff to ensure dashboards reflect current project data.
- Support vendor selection, contractor progress tracking, change order management, and project close-out reporting.
Who You Are
- Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent.
- 7+ years of experience in cost controls and scheduling on large-scale capital projects.
- Strong working knowledge of earned value management (EVM), cost forecasting, and schedule management practices.
- PMIS/Scheduling: Experience with PMIS platforms such as e-Builder, Procore, or Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
- Familiarity with Power BI and data reporting concepts sufficient to collaborate with reporting/BI teams and ensure accurate data integration.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with keen attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate cost and schedule data into clear updates for project teams and stakeholders.
Benefits WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation Expected Salary (all locations): $130,000-159,000/yr