Project Controls Specialist-Grants

Laveer Engineering; Cranberry Township (Butler County); Hybrid; USD 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid vacations

Job summary

WECTEC Staffing Services in Cranberry Township, US, is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to support its wildfire mitigation program. The role focuses on managing and reporting data for state and federal grants, including DOE grants, ensuring compliance and accurate financial reporting.

You will bring a finance or financial analysis background, interpret complex grant requirements and contracts, and collaborate with project managers to forecast costs and track budgets and expenditures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in financial analysis, project controls, reporting, grant management, or a related discipline.
• Experience preparing financial reports, analyzing budgets, and tracking project expenditures.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, formulas, and data analysis functions.
• Interpret complex grant requirements, financial documents, contracts, and legal language.

Responsibilities

• Manage reporting requirements for state and federal grants, including DOE-funded projects.
• Prepare accurate financial, budget, expenditure, and compliance reports.
• Monitor project costs, budgets, forecasts, and grant funding use.
• Coordinate with Project Managers to gather project updates and support forecasting activities.
• Track reporting deadlines and ensure compliant submissions.
• Create recurring and ad hoc reports and respond to team member data requests.
• Maintain project controls documentation and support cost tracking and schedule reporting.
• Collaborate with grant, finance, accounting, and wildfire mitigation teams to ensure reporting accuracy and compliance.

Skills

Financial analysis

Grant management

Budget tracking

Reporting

Contract interpretation

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Economics, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Pivot Tables

VLOOKUP

Data visualization

Job description

Requisition Number: 33729

Company

Location: Cranberry Township, US

WECTEC Staffing Services

A Wholly Owned Subsidiary Of Westinghouse Electric Company LLC

WECTEC Staffing Services provides customer-focused solutions with offerings ranging from high-volume and low-cost to specialized niche solutions, never compromising on delivering best-in-class customer service to both our clients and our professionals each day.

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At WECTEC Staffing Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

About The Role

Lubbock or Amarillo, TX

Arvada, Kipling or Denver, CO

Hybrid

We are looking for a Project Controls Specialist to support our Wildfire Mitigation Program. The primary focus of this role is on managing and reporting data associated with state and federal grants, including Department of Energy (DOE) grants. This role is critical to ensuring grant compliance, maintaining accurate financial reporting, tracking budgets and expenditures, and to preserve and maximize grant funding opportunities.

You will bring a finance or financial analysis background, and the ability to interpret complex grant requirements, contractual language, and reporting obligations.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage reporting requirements for state and federal grants, including DOE-funded projects.
• Prepare accurate financial, budget, expenditure, and compliance reports.
• Monitor project costs, budgets, forecasts, and grant funding use.
• Coordinate with Project Managers to gather project updates and support forecasting activities.
• Track reporting deadlines and ensure compliant submissions.
• Create recurring and ad hoc reports and respond to team member data requests.
• Maintain project controls documentation and support cost tracking and schedule reporting.
• Collaborate with grant, finance, accounting, and wildfire mitigation teams to ensure reporting accuracy and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in financial analysis, project controls, reporting, grant management, or a related discipline.
• Experience preparing financial reports, analyzing budgets, and tracking project expenditures.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, formulas, and data analysis functions.
• Interpret complex grant requirements, financial documents, contracts, and legal language.

If you are as committed to your success as we are committed to your safety, then this is the position for you! For us, our guiding principle has always been and will continue to be the safety of our people. It's that simple!

Why WECTEC Staffing Services?

WECTEC Staffing Services delivers customer-focused solutions, offering everything from high-volume, cost-effective staffing to specialized niche roles, while maintaining best-in-class service. Our employees bring expertise across technical and corporate functions, supporting international contracts in over five countries. We invite you to explore opportunities within our distinguished global talent network.

Benefits

WECTEC Staffing Services offers competitive pay to all of our employees. Additionally, most positions qualify for benefits including the following:

• Comprehensive Health and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Paid Vacations for Qualifying Positions

We are committed to transparency and equity in all our people practices. The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon experience, qualifications and skills, is estimated to be $39.00/hour to $44.00/hour.

WECTEC Staffing Services continues to successfully place professional and technical resources into key roles globally. You can learn more by visiting www.wectecstaffing.com

Equal Opportunity Employer Including Veterans And Individuals With Disabilities

Employment opportunities may require access to information which is subject to the export control regulations of the United States. Hiring decisions for such positions are required by law to be made in compliance with these regulations. Applicants for employment opportunities in other countries must be able to meet the comparable export control requirements of that country and of the United States.

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