Project Control Specialist

Airswift; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Airswift seeks a Senior Project Controls professional to support regional capital projects in a process-plant setting from its Salt Lake City area office. You will provide financial controls, cost tracking, and schedule monitoring while interfacing with engineering, construction, logistics, and finance teams.

The role emphasizes accurate data delivery to inform decision-making, with limited travel and a fast-paced environment requiring strong communication and advanced spreadsheet skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in planning, estimating, and construction or maintenance management in a process plant.
• Experience supporting capital projects through cost control and schedule control activities.
• Experience tracking contractor performance, processing project-related payments and supporting logistics coordination.
• Experience tracking and forecasting project costs across the full project lifecycle.
• Experience monitoring progress against budget throughout the year.
• Broad understanding of engineering, construction, logistics, and financial processes.
• Advanced knowledge of accounting, contracting, and procurement software systems and processes.
• Strong spreadsheet software skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver to required deadlines.
• Ability to analyse how project activities affect the wider refinery operation.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced reading and writing capability with the ability to perform intermediate mathematical calculations.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial controls and cost tracking for capital projects.
• Monitor project schedule and performance against plans.
• Analyze project data to support decision-making.
• Coordinate with engineering, construction, logistics, and finance teams.
• Support payments processing and contractor performance tracking.
• Forecast costs across the project lifecycle.
• Ensure progress is tracked against budget throughout the year.

Skills

Planning

Estimating

Cost control

Schedule control

Contractor performance

Payments processing

Logistics coordination

Cost forecasting

Budget monitoring

Accounting software

Procurement software

Spreadsheet skills

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

MS Project

Microsoft Word

Outlook

Access

Job description

This opportunity supports regional capital projects by delivering financial controls, cost tracking, schedule monitoring, and project analysis within a process plant environment. The role is well suited to professionals with project controls, estimating, construction, and maintenance management expertise who can provide accurate, timely data to support decision-making. The work environment is primarily office-based with limited travel and close interaction with engineering, construction, logistics, and financial processes.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in planning, estimating, and construction or maintenance management in a process plant environment
• Experience supporting capital projects through cost control and schedule control activities
• Experience tracking contractor performance, processing project-related payments and supporting logistics coordination
• Experience tracking and forecasting project costs across the full project lifecycle
• Experience monitoring progress against budget throughout the year
• Broad understanding of engineering, construction, logistics, and financial processes
• Advanced knowledge of accounting, contracting, and procurement software systems and processes
• Strong spreadsheet software skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver to required deadlines
• Ability to analyse how project activities affect the wider refinery operation
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced reading and writing capability with the ability to perform intermediate mathematical calculations

Preferred Qualifications:

• General proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Project, Access, and Primavera P6
• General knowledge of procedures and practices for contracting field construction activities

About Airswift:

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.