Project Controls Specialist

Linesight; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative consultancy is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join their dynamic team in Charlotte. In this role, you will assess bids, manage project schedules, and lead risk management efforts, all while fostering strong relationships with clients and team members. This position offers the opportunity to take charge of your career progression in a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion. If you're passionate about project management and want to work on exciting projects with prestigious clients, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls roles including cost control, scheduling, and estimating.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess bids and change notices to ensure best value for clients.
• Manage project schedules and report on exceptions to the plan.
• Lead risk management efforts and prepare project status reports.

Skills

Project Controls

Cost Control

Scheduling

Estimating

Communication

Education

Degree in Construction Management

Comparable Experience

Job description

Overview

As a Project Controls Specialistat Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Assess engineer and contractor bids, change notices and costs to ensure best value for clients
• Assist in preparing client project funding documents
• Be a visible leader onsite, assessing engineer and contractor progress
• Create and manage cost forecasts for key client developments
• Expertly negotiate agreements with pricing agreements with external partners
• Manage and monitor project schedules, reporting on exceptions to the plan
• Prepare owner estimates and lead estimate review meetings
• Proactively lead risk management efforts and reviews
• Support the final reconciliation of contracts and purchase orders
• Update key partners with monthly executive and project status reports, project schedule updates, and project risks

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have successfully performed project controls roles including cost control, scheduling and estimating
• Have a degree or comparable experience in a construction related discipline
• Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing
• Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines
• Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment.We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!