Emerging Project Controls Specialist — Hybrid

CDM Smith; Nampa (ID); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking an Entry Project Controls Specialist to support budgeting, scheduling, forecasting and reporting within the Project Controls Team. The role emphasizes data integrity, earned value analysis, and collaboration with project managers to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.

Ideal candidates understand basic project management concepts, have strong communication skills, and can work in a fast-paced environment under supervision.

Qualifications

• Supports compliance with internal procedures and gathers project progress information to update basic complexity projects.
• Gathers schedule data, percent complete, resource needs, and accruals to forecast costs.
• Generates and analyzes earned value reports and communicates cost status to management.
• Documents and assesses impact of project changes on baselines.

Responsibilities

• Maintains integrated critical path schedules for portions of routine projects.
• Under supervision, analyzes schedules and resources for accuracy.
• Performs routine financial analyses and prepares cost/status reports.
• Stores and retrieves project documentation using proper protocols.

Skills

Budget development

Project planning

Control & assurance

Finance concepts

Teamwork

Communication skills

Earned Value

MS Office

MS Excel

MS Word

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

0 years

Tools

Primavera P6

EcoSys

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking an Entry Project Controls Specialist to support budgeting, scheduling, forecasting and reporting within the Project Controls Team. The role emphasizes data integrity, earned value analysis, and collaboration with project managers to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.

Ideal candidates understand basic project management concepts, have strong communication skills, and can work in a fast-paced environment under supervision.