Lead Project Controls Specialist

ENFRA LLC; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 88,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

ENFRA LLC is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to lead cost, schedule, forecasting, risk, and reporting on assigned projects. You will work under the Project Controls Director and own established controls processes, ensuring data integrity and timely decision support.

This hands-on role requires strong communication, attention to detail, and the ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and clients on project execution.

Qualifications

• Required Education, Experience, and Qualifications
• 4-year degree in engineering, construction management, business, finance, or related fields.
• 2 - 5 years of relevant experience in project controls or project management, preferably in building construction, or EPC.
• Demonstrates experience using Primavera.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail-oriented and willing to tackle various ongoing projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Problem-solving attitude and high level of coordination skills.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in working with others in a multifunctional team.
• Accepts change and works well under pressure.
• Knowledge of common business tools such as Microsoft Office applications.
• Awareness of contract and construction terminology.

Responsibilities

• Leads cost management for assigned projects, including budget maintenance, commitment tracking, accruals, productivity analysis, cash flow, cost trending, variance analysis, and Estimate-at-Completion development.
• Leads preparation and analysis of assigned project forecasts and reforecasts, validating assumptions and communicating risks, opportunities, variances, and performance drivers.
• Analyzes actual and forecast results to identify variances and trends and communicates findings to project controls and project leadership.
• Works with Project Management, Finance, and Operations to reconcile source data and support alignment between project controls and financial reporting.
• Maintains accurate, timely, and traceable cost and forecast information in accordance with enterprise standards.
• Develops, maintains, updates, and analyzes assigned project schedules, including logic, critical path, milestones, progress, resource requirements, and forecast completion dates.
• Leads schedule status collection and validation and performs critical path, variance, milestone, and trend analysis to identify threats to project delivery.
• Develops look-ahead schedules, schedule views, and narratives to support project execution.
• Maintains schedule issue logs and follows up with responsible stakeholders on open items and key dates.
• Facilitates identification, assessment, documentation, and monitoring of project cost, schedule, resource, and execution risks and opportunities.
• Maintains risk and opportunity register information, including exposure, ownership, mitigation actions, due dates, and potential impacts.
• Performs appropriate risk analysis, monitors mitigation and contingency actions, and communicates material changes in project exposure.
• Administers the change management process for assigned projects, ensuring trends, scope changes, claims, and potential impacts are identified, evaluated, documented, tracked, and reflected in cost, schedule, and forecast information.
• Develops or coordinates change estimates, pricing support, schedule impact analyses, back charges, and related documentation.
• Maintains accurate change logs and provides visibility into the status of pending, approved, rejected, and realized changes.
• Incorporates energy production, savings, performance commitments, and related economics into applicable Project Controls processes for assigned projects.
• Collects and analyzes performance information and assists project and technical leaders in identifying variances and corrective actions.
• Leads or coordinates Project Controls elements of execution planning and project startup with Pre-Construction, Estimating, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Project Management.
• Develops the baseline schedule, work breakdown structure, preliminary time-phased spend, controls procedures, and Project Controls content within the Project Execution Plan.
• Supports proposals, constructability planning, feasibility studies, and project close-out data collection as assigned.
• Coordinates with Operations Finance and Project Accounting on revenue recognition, margin, billing, cash, reforecasting, accruals, and month-end alignment between Project Controls information and the financial ledger.
• Investigates discrepancies and drives timely resolution of differences among project forecasts, operational expectations, and financial reporting.
• Provides project leadership and the Project Controls Director with clear information and recommendations regarding material financial trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Develops, analyzes, and presents accurate and timely Project Controls reports, dashboards, KPIs, cost curves, progress information, and management analyses for assigned projects.
• Performs trend, variance, productivity, and performance analysis and recommends actions to address unfavorable performance or protect emerging opportunities.
• Prepares project controls information for weekly, monthly, quarterly, client, and internal project reviews.
• Ensures reporting is traceable to source data and aligned with established definitions, standards, and cadence.
• Provides technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to project controls associates, schedulers, cost engineers, and analysts as assigned.
• Demonstrates ownership-driven approach by proactively identifying issues, asking questions, and contributing to project outcomes.
• Shares knowledge, supports onboarding and development, and contributes to a collaborative project controls community.
• Maintains data quality and process compliance, addresses gaps within assigned responsibilities, and recommends broader improvements to the Project Controls Director.
• Supports continuous improvement through technology, automation, analytics, lessons learned, and proven Project Controls practices.

Skills

Effective communication

Detail-oriented

Coordination skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, finance, or related fields

Tools

Primavera

Job description

ENFRA LLC is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to lead cost, schedule, forecasting, risk, and reporting on assigned projects. You will work under the Project Controls Director and own established controls processes, ensuring data integrity and timely decision support.

This hands-on role requires strong communication, attention to detail, and the ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and clients on project execution.