Project Controls Specialist

WSP in the U.S.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 159,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

WSP seeks a Project Controls Specialist to join their Project Controls team. This role can sit in Texas, Utah, Tennessee, or Nevada, focusing on cost controls, scheduling, and earned value management.

You will build and maintain program schedules, prepare budgets and forecasts, track costs, and support PMIS like e-Builder and Procore. You’ll produce regular cost and schedule reports and help integrate data into Power BI dashboards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cost controls and scheduling on large capital projects.
• Strong knowledge of EVM, cost forecasting, and schedule management.
• Experience with PMIS like e-Builder, Procore, or Autodesk Construction Cloud.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• Ability to translate data into clear updates for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain program/project schedules; monitor schedules and variances.
• Prepare cost estimates, budgets, forecasts, cash flows, and projections.
• Track costs including change management, accruals, and commitments.
• Produce regular cost and schedule reports for PMO and Power BI dashboards.
• Support integration of cost and schedule data with Power BI reporting tools.

Skills

Cost controls

Scheduling

Earned value management

PMIS integration

Power BI

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

e-Builder

Procore

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join their Project Controls team. This individual can sit in our WSP locations in either Texas, Utah, Tennessee, or Nevada.

Your Impact

• Build and maintain program/project schedules; monitor contractor and consultant schedules, identifying cost and scheduling issues and recommending resolutions to the Program Manager.


• Prepare cost estimates, budgets, forecasts, cash flows, and financial projections; support earned value management (EVM) tracking and reporting.


• Track and control project costs, including change management, cost coding, commitments, and accruals across active projects.


• Monitor schedule performance, critical path changes, and float, coordinating with contractors and consultants to resolve variances.


• Administer cost management/PMIS platforms (e.g., e-Builder, Procore, or similar); track acquisition packages for reimbursement and support invoice review and processing.


• Produce regular cost and schedule progress reports for the Program Manager and PMO, ensuring data feeding into Power BI dashboards is accurate and up to date.


• Support integration of cost and schedule data with Power BI reporting tools, coordinating with reporting/BI staff to ensure dashboards reflect current project data.


• Support vendor selection, contractor progress tracking, change order management, and project close-out reporting.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent.


• 7+ years of experience in cost controls and scheduling on large-scale capital projects.


• Strong working knowledge of earned value management (EVM), cost forecasting, and schedule management practices.


• PMIS/Scheduling: Experience with PMIS platforms such as e-Builder, Procore, or Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.


• Familiarity with Power BI and data reporting concepts sufficient to collaborate with reporting/BI teams and ensure accurate data integration.


• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with keen attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate cost and schedule data into clear updates for project teams and stakeholders.

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $130,000-159,000/yr

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

Notice To Third Party Agencies

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.