Infrastructure Capital Projects: Project Controls Lead

Accenture; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Maternity/paternity leave

Adoption assistance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a capital project scheduling professional to lead and support project controls for large-scale energy and infrastructure programs. The role focuses on developing integrated schedules, applying cost control techniques, and ensuring alignment with Stage Gate milestones across client sites.

You will collaborate with engineering, EPC contractors, and operations teams, delivering clear performance metrics and risk analyses to drive on-time, on-budget project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related field, OR 6 years of equivalent/related work experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of capital project scheduling experience on process industry projects with values of $500 million or greater.
• High proficiency with Primavera P6 and ability to develop, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules.
• Experience performing project controls analysis across schedule, cost, progress, change, risk, and reporting disciplines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, a sense of urgency, self-starter behaviors, and ability to operate in a fast-paced project environment.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and project controls information clearly to project managers, leadership, contractors, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to perform field walkdown observations and lift 25 lbs.

Responsibilities

• You’ll demonstrate project controls expertise gained through experience on large capital projects, with a preference for Utility New Gas Generation projects, and support project teams in the successful planning and execution of assigned projects.
• You’ll develop and maintain integrated project schedules, plans, and WBS structures and apply fundamental scheduling and cost control techniques throughout the project lifecycle.
• You’ll identify, analyze, and document schedule and cost variances between planned, earned, and actual performance and assess potential impacts to project milestones, completion dates, and overall project outcomes.
• You’ll perform schedule analytics to evaluate schedule quality, critical and near-critical paths, progress, contractor performance trends, and compliance with contractual scheduling requirements.
• You’ll work collaboratively in an integrated project environment consisting of client personnel, engineering firms, EPC contractors, OEMs, construction contractors, and other project delivery partners.
• You’ll promote safe behavior and ensure adherence to all applicable safety requirements and project site rules.
• You’ll implement Accenture and client Project Management Standards across cost, schedule, scope, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), risk, change, and reporting to support consistent and predictable project delivery.
• You’ll support Stage Gate reviews by developing and analyzing cost, schedule, progress, risk, and project controls information needed to assess project readiness and performance.
• You’ll analyze contractor schedule and progress data to identify key project issues, validate reported progress, assess performance trends, and support Project Administration and Accounting in the review of contractor invoices.
• You’ll assist in project and portfolio analysis, optimization, and reporting, including assessments of cost, schedule, and risk associated with completing planned scopes of work in alignment with approved budgets and multi-year capital plans.
• You’ll develop project and portfolio performance metrics, dashboards, and reports that provide project leadership with timely visibility into project performance, trends, risks, and emerging issues.
• You may conduct training on client Stage Gate Processes, project management standards and implementation guides, and project controls disciplines such as Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA).

Skills

Primavera P6

Capital projects

Project controls

Communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

4+ years related experience

Tools

MS Project

Scheduling tools

Job description

Accenture is seeking a capital project scheduling professional to lead and support project controls for large-scale energy and infrastructure programs. The role focuses on developing integrated schedules, applying cost control techniques, and ensuring alignment with Stage Gate milestones across client sites.

You will collaborate with engineering, EPC contractors, and operations teams, delivering clear performance metrics and risk analyses to drive on-time, on-budget project outcomes.