Hybrid Project Controls Specialist – EV & Scheduling

CDM Smith; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to support multiple projects across the U.S. You will help develop basic to moderately complex cost and schedule baselines and prepare standardized management reports.

Under limited guidance, you will collect progress data, analyze variances, update risk reserves and forecast costs, monitor deliverables, and implement financial controls while adhering to safety programs across diverse locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 3 years of related experience.
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Gather project progress information from project managers and team members to update and monitor projects of basic to moderate complexity.
• Develop time‑phased project cost and resource forecasts; validate project costs and update requirements as needed.
• Monitor progress of deliverables and actual expenditures versus forecasts.
• Perform performance reporting using Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Document and assess the impact of project changes on cost and schedule baselines.
• Prepare client and internal status reports to communicate cost status and document trends.

Skills

Project management

Budgeting

Earned Value (EVM)

Schedule analysis

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to support multiple projects across the U.S. You will help develop basic to moderately complex cost and schedule baselines and prepare standardized management reports.

Under limited guidance, you will collect progress data, analyze variances, update risk reserves and forecast costs, monitor deliverables, and implement financial controls while adhering to safety programs across diverse locations.