Project Controls Specialist

Selectek, Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Selectek, Inc. is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to support project managers in planning, budgeting, scheduling, and monitoring engineering design projects. You will ensure accurate project information, flag overruns, and maintain controls from setup through closeout.

The role emphasizes establishing budgets, coding, and labor-hour forecasting, with focus on variance analysis and cost reporting. The position is based in Alpharetta, GA, with a temp-to-hire path and hourly compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, construction management, finance, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in project controls, project coordination, project accounting, or a similar role.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Project Management or ERP System experience (Unanet preferred).
• Understanding of labor hour budgets, project cost reporting, and time and material and fixed fee contracts.

Responsibilities

• Project setup: Establish project codes, work breakdown structures (WBS), budgets, and contract fee lines in the project management system.
• Budget development: Translate approved proposals into labor-hour and cost budgets by discipline, phase, and deliverable.
• Cost monitoring: Track actual hours, costs, and commitments against approved budgets; flag variances and potential overruns.
• Forecasting: Coordinate regular updates to remaining hours, estimate to complete, and forecast cost at completion.
• Schedule tracking: Maintain project schedules and monitor deliverable dates, milestones, and overdue activities.
• Resource planning: Consolidate staffing forecasts and help identify workload conflicts or capacity gaps across projects.
• Change control: Maintain a change log, track potential additional services, and incorporate approved changes into project budgets and schedules.
• Project reporting: Prepare concise reports showing budget performance, schedule status, forecast results, and issues requiring action.
• Project reviews: Coordinate recurring project review meetings, document action items, and follow up with responsible team members.
• Accounting coordination: Work with the accounting team to reconcile project information and support billing reviews and project closeout.
• Process improvement: Maintain standard templates and improve the consistency and accuracy of project controls.

Skills

Excel

Project controls

Budgeting

Education

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

Tools

Unanet

Job description

We have an exciting opening for a Project Controls Specialist. Summary: This role will support project managers in planning, budgeting, scheduling, and monitoring engineering design projects. Provides accurate project information, identifies potential overruns, and helps maintain consistent project controls from project setup through closeout.

Key Responsibilities

• Project setup: Establish project codes, work breakdown structures (WBS), budgets, and contract fee lines in the project management system.
• Budget development: Work with project managers to translate approved proposals into labor-hour and cost budgets by discipline, phase, and deliverable.
• Cost monitoring: Track actual hours, costs, and commitments against approved budgets; flag variances and potential overruns.
• Forecasting: Coordinate regular updates to remaining hours, estimate to complete, and forecast cost at completion.
• Schedule tracking: Maintain project schedules and monitor deliverable dates, milestones, and overdue activities.
• Resource planning: Consolidate staffing forecasts and help identify workload conflicts or capacity gaps across projects.
• Change control: Maintain a change log, track potential additional services, and incorporate approved changes into project budgets and schedules.
• Project reporting: Prepare concise reports showing budget performance, schedule status, forecast results, and issues requiring action.
• Project reviews: Coordinate recurring project review meetings, document action items, and follow up with responsible team members.
• Accounting coordination: Work with the accounting team to reconcile project information and support billing reviews and project closeout.
• Process improvement: Maintain standard templates and improve the consistency and accuracy of project controls.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, construction management, finance, or related field.
• 3 plus years of experience in project controls, project coordination, project accounting, or a similar role.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Project Management or ERP System experience (Unanet preferred).
• Understanding of labor hour budgets, project cost reporting, and time and material and fixed fee contracts.

Preferred

• Experience in an engineering firm.

Pay: $36-$43/hr.

Location: Alpharetta, GA

Duration: Temp-to-hire