Project Controls Specialist

WSP; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

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, and is a hybrid role.

The position focuses on managing schedules for Power and Energy projects, establishing baselines, resource loading, and integrating contractor schedules into the master schedule. You will lead monthly schedule reviews, analyze progress, and perform time impact analyses to support schedule recovery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline.
• 7+ years in developing and managing project schedules.
• Experienced with critical path method analysis using Primavera.
• Strong project financial forecasting skills.
• Change Order and Extension of Time analysis.
• Experience with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in large, challenging client programs.
• Excellent reporting and communication skills.
• Construction management experience.
• Team player with strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain project schedules and baselines.
• Establish baselines: durations, critical path, resources, costs.
• Load resources and costs into the schedule.
• Integrate contractor schedules into the master schedule.
• Facilitate monthly schedule review meetings with the client team.
• Conduct bi-weekly schedule update calls with discipline leads.
• Develop monthly project progress.
• Review subcontractor schedules and monitor performance.
• Manage schedule changes.
• Perform time impact analyses to determine delays and recovery actions.

Skills

Schedule management

CPM analysis

Primavera

Forecasting

Change orders

Cross-functional teams

Client programs

Reporting

Documentation

Construction management

Team player

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

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.

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

Expected Salary (all locations): $103,500-$150,200

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.

Job Info

• Job Identification 89418
• Posting Date 06/18/2026, 05:54 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.