Project Controls Specialist

WSP in the U.S.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 103,500 - 150,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Paid vacation and personal time

Paid parental leave

Job summary

WSP in the U.S. is hiring a Project Controls Specialist to join their Project Controls team. This hybrid role involves managing project schedules for Power and Energy projects, requiring strong forecasting skills and experience with critical path methodologies.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, over 7 years of experience, and expertise in large-scale project management. WSP offers a comprehensive benefits package and competitive salary between $103,500-$150,200.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in developing and managing project schedules.
• Experience supporting large mega projects.
• Civil infrastructure or energy/transmission distribution market experience.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for schedule management to support Power and Energy projects.
• Establish baseline schedule: durations, critical path, logic, resources, costs.
• Perform time impact analyses to determine the impacts of potential delays.

Skills

Project financial forecasting

Critical path method analysis

Communication skills

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline

Tools

Primavera

Job description

Position Overview

WSP is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Project Controls team. This role can be based in either St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, or Fort Mill. This is a hybrid role.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Civil infrastructure or energy/transmission distribution market experience.
• Experience supporting large mega projects
• Experience 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

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on 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): $103,500-$150,200. This range represents the compensation that WSP believes might be offered for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other factors. WSP reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation.

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.

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.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services.

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