Project Controls Specialist

WSP; Louisville (TN); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Project Controls team in Kentucky. This hybrid role supports Power and Energy projects, focusing on schedule management, baselining, and integration of contractor schedules into the master program.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in engineering, 7+ years of experience with CPM scheduling, proficiency in Primavera, and strong reporting and stakeholder communication to drive project success for large, cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience developing and managing project schedules.
• Experience with critical path method analysis using Primavera.
• Strong communication and reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage project schedules for Power and Energy projects.
• Establish baselines including durations, logic, resources, and costs.
• Update and analyze detailed execution schedules for major programs.
• Review subcontractors' schedules and integrate into the master schedule.
• Facilitate monthly schedule reviews with the client team.
• Perform time impact analyses to assess delays and recovery actions.
• Provide schedule performance updates to the Project Team and Executives.

Skills

Schedule management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Reporting

Critical path analysis

Education

Bachelors in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

WSP is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Project Controls team in Kentucky. This is a hybrid role.

Your Impact

Job Duties:

• Responsible for schedule management to support Power and Energy projects.
• Establish baseline schedule: durations, critical path, logic, resources, costs, cost curves, resource histograms.
• Responsible for resource and cost loading of the schedule
• Responsible for updating and analyzing detailed execution schedules for major programs.
• Review and integrate contractor schedules into the program master schedule
• Organize and facilitate monthly schedule review meeting with client team
• Facilitate bi-weekly schedule update calls with different discipline leads
• Develop and update project progress monthly.
• Review subcontractor's schedules and monitor their performance.
• Manage Schedule Changes
• Perform time impact analyses (TIA) to determine the extent of the impacts of potential delays and provide recommendations for schedule recovery.
• Assess and provide recommendations to resolve scope changes or delays to the Project Team and Executive Management.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in developing and managing project schedules.
• Experienced with critical path method analysis/technique with Primavera.
• Project financial forecasting skills.
• Change Order and Extension of Time analysis.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience working within large and challenging client programs with one or more project teams.
• Effective reporting and communication skills.
• Experience in preparing project reports and documentation.
• Building construction and or project management experience
• Team player and Strong communication skills

Job Info

• Job Identification 95449
• Posting Date 09/15/2026, 03:36 PM

About Us

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.