Entry-Level Project Controls Specialist

ENFRA; Glenolden (Delaware County); On-site; USD 58,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

ENFRA is seeking an entry-level Project Controls Associate I to join our project teams across multiple locations in the US. You will support cost, schedule, risk, change, energy performance, and reporting activities on assigned projects under guidance from the Project Controls Director and Senior Specialists.

This hands-on developmental role builds experience in planning, controls processes, and enterprise standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in engineering, construction management, business, finance, or related fields.
• 0-2 years of relevant experience in project controls or project management.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently.
• Proactive and eager to learn with a willingness to take on new responsibilities.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in data entry, documentation, and report preparation.
• Knowledge of common business tools such as Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Participates in assigned project teams and provides accurate Project Controls information and work products under established direction.
• Coordinates with Project Management, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Pre-Construction, Finance, and Project Controls personnel to collect, validate, and maintain project information.
• Assists with Project Controls setup and mobilization, including work breakdown structures, coding structures, baseline data, responsibility assignments, reporting calendars, and system setup.
• Identifies data inconsistencies, missing information, and emerging concerns and promptly escalates them to the responsible Project Controls Specialist or Project Controls Director.
• Builds effective working relationships with project stakeholders while representing the Company professionally.
• Maintains project cost data, budgets, commitments, accruals, cash flow information, cost trends, and coding structures in accordance with established procedures.
• Supports preparation of project forecasts and reforecasts by collecting data, validating inputs, documenting assumptions, and preparing recurring analyses.
• Performs basic actual-to-budget, commitment, accrual, and forecast variance analysis and communicates exceptions for review.
• Coordinates with the Project Controls team member and Project Management to research source-data discrepancies and support reconciliation.
• Maintains accurate, timely, and traceable cost and forecast documentation.
• Supports development and maintenance of project schedules by collecting status, entering approved updates, and validating milestone and progress information.
• Prepares schedule views, look-ahead reports, issue logs, and routine schedule analyses under established guidance.
• Monitors open schedule items and key dates and follows up with responsible stakeholders.
• Develops working knowledge of schedule logic, critical path, resource requirements, progress measurement, and forecast completion dates.
• Coordinates risk and opportunity meeting documentation, and follow-up.
• Creates and maintains risk and opportunity register information, including ownership, mitigation actions, due dates, and potential impacts.
• Supports risk identification and basic analysis and escalates material changes or overdue actions for review.
• Maintains project change logs and supporting documentation for trends, scope changes, claims, and potential impacts.
• Assists with cost and schedule data collection, change estimates, pricing support, back charges, and status reporting.
• Verifies that approved changes are reflected in applicable cost, schedule, forecast, and reporting records.
• Collects and maintains information related to energy production, savings, performance commitments, and related economics.
• Supports analysis and reporting of performance variances for review by project, technical, and Project Controls leadership.
• Supports development of the work breakdown structure, baseline schedule, preliminary time-phased spend, controls procedures, and Project Execution Plan content.
• Supports proposal, constructability, feasibility, and project close-out data collection as assigned.
• Supports revenue recognition, margin, billing, cash, reforecasting, accruals, and month-end alignment by preparing and validating Project Controls information.
• Researches discrepancies among project source data, project forecasts, and financial reporting and documents findings for resolution.
• Provides timely supporting information regarding financial trends, risks, and opportunities to project controls personnel.
• Prepares accurate and timely Project Controls reports, dashboards, KPIs, cost curves, progress information, and recurring analyses using established templates and definitions.
• Performs basic trend, variance, productivity, and performance analysis and highlights exceptions requiring review.
• Assists with preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly, client, and internal project review materials.
• Validates reports against source data and maintains supporting documentation and audit trails.
• Works closely with Project Controls Specialists, Senior Project Controls Specialists, schedulers, cost engineers, analysts, and other project team members.
• Seeks feedback, applies coaching, and actively develops technical Project Controls capability and business knowledge.
• Demonstrates ownership of assigned work products, communicates status and constraints, and contributes to a collaborative Project Controls culture.
• Shares lessons learned and helpful practices with peers as experience develops.
• Applies enterprise Project Controls standards, procedures, tools, systems, and methodologies to assigned work.
• Maintains data quality and process compliance and promptly raises identified gaps or uncertainties.
• Supports process improvement, technology, automation, analytics, and lessons-learned initiatives.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Proactive and eager to learn

Microsoft Office

Education

4-year degree in engineering, construction management, business, finance, or related fields

Tools

Excel

Project controls software

Job description

ENFRA is seeking an entry-level Project Controls Associate I to join our project teams across multiple locations in the US. You will support cost, schedule, risk, change, energy performance, and reporting activities on assigned projects under guidance from the Project Controls Director and Senior Specialists.

This hands-on developmental role builds experience in planning, controls processes, and enterprise standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.