Cost & Forecasting

You'll help Project Managers understand where their projects actually stand financially and where they're headed.

You'll:

• Track budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, and projected final costs.

• Monitor committed and uncommitted spend.

• Analyze budget-to-actual variances and investigate what's driving them.

• Support cost-to-complete, cash flow, contingency, and margin analysis.

• Reconcile project costs across contracts, purchase orders, accounting systems, and project reports.

• Help Project Managers build more accurate forecasts before issues become surprises.

Scheduling & Progress

You'll help turn the project schedule into an active management tool rather than something that gets updated once a month.

You'll:

• Develop and maintain project schedules alongside Project Managers.

• Track engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, and closeout milestones.

• Monitor actual progress against project baselines.

• Identify critical-path activities, constraints, and potential delays.

• Support lookahead schedules and recovery plans.

• Validate percent complete and progress reporting with project teams.

Project Performance

You'll connect the dots between cost + schedule + scope + progress.

You'll:

• Perform variance and trend analysis.

• Track project KPIs and performance indicators.

• Support earned value concepts including CPI and SPI where appropriate.

• Identify emerging cost or schedule risks.

• Help determine the root cause behind project variances.

• Work with Project Managers to turn performance issues into corrective actions.

Change Management

Scope changes happen. Your job is to make sure they don't become invisible project problems.

You'll:

• Maintain project change logs.

• Track potential and approved changes.

• Help evaluate cost and schedule impacts.

• Follow changes from identification through pricing, approval, execution, and baseline updates.

• Maintain the documentation necessary to create a clear project audit trail.

Risk & Opportunity

You'll help teams see around corners.

You'll:

• Maintain project risk and opportunity registers.

• Track mitigation plans, owners, and due dates.

• Help identify cost, schedule, procurement, resource, and execution risks.

• Escalate emerging issues before they materially impact project performance.

Reporting & Project Intelligence

You'll turn project data into information people can actually use.

You'll:

• Prepare weekly and monthly project controls reports.

• Develop dashboards and performance views.

• Clearly communicate forecasted outcomes, variances, schedule concerns, changes, and risks.

• Maintain accurate project data across approved systems.

• Help leadership understand not just what happened, but what is likely to happen next.

Who We're Looking For

We're less interested in finding someone with the perfect title and more interested in finding someone who understands how projects work and wants to become excellent at controlling them.

You could currently be a:

Project Controller | Project Controls Analyst | Cost Controller | Cost Engineer | Scheduler | Project Engineer | Assistant Project Manager | Project Analyst

You may be a great fit if:

• You naturally dig into numbers when something doesn't look right.

• You understand that schedule problems eventually become cost problems.

• You're comfortable asking Project Managers questions and challenging assumptions with data.

• You enjoy creating structure where processes aren't fully developed yet.

• You want exposure beyond just scheduling or just cost.

• You like being close enough to the project to understand what's actually happening.

• You want to learn from an experienced Project Controls leader and grow into greater responsibility.

What We'd Like You to Bring

• 3+ years of experience in project controls, project engineering, cost control, scheduling, construction, EPC, capital projects, industrial projects, manufacturing, or another project-based environment.

• Experience with some combination of project budgets, forecasting, scheduling, progress measurement, variance analysis, change management, procurement tracking, risk, or project reporting.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with project data.

• Ability to communicate effectively with Project Managers, engineers, construction teams, procurement, finance, and leadership.

• A willingness to be hands-on. This team is being built, and everyone will contribute to making it successful.

Experience with industrial construction, EPC, energy, renewable fuels, manufacturing, process facilities, or complex capital projects is especially valuable.

Experience with tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, or similar project controls systems is a plus.

A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, Operations, or a related field is preferred, but meaningful hands-on project experience matters.