Project Controls Specialist II

HNTB; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB in Nashville is seeking a Controls Task Lead to support the CHYM program, a city-led transportation modernization effort. You will manage schedule, cost, risk and document controls across multiple project phases, coordinating with schedulers and project teams to ensure timely, data-driven decisions.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management or related field and 6+ years of experience, or 10 years’ equivalent experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related field; 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Alternative: 10 years' relevant experience or 6 years' direct contractor experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze master project schedules, baseline schedules, progress schedules and schedule updates.
• Develop cost estimates, budgets, and change management reports; produce regular budget/cost reports.
• Oversee PMCS and document controls for engineering, procurement and construction documentation.
• Establish project controls procedures across cost estimating, budgeting, scheduling, document control, reporting, risk management and claims analysis.
• Assess cost/schedule impacts of design/construction changes and propose recovery plans.

Skills

Schedule management

Cost control

Estimating

Risk management

Document control

Project controls

PMIS

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related field

10 years' relevant experience

Tools

PMCS (Project controls system)

Document control system

Job description

What We're Looking For

Serve as Controls Task Lead in support of HNTB’s efforts for the Metro Nashville Choose How You Move (CHYM) program. CHYM is Nashville's multi-billion-dollar voter-approved plan to modernize transportation and give everyone safer, more reliable ways to get around. Implementation is underway, delivering practical investments in safety, reliability, and access that work for everyone, whether you walk, roll, ride, bike, or drive.

What We're Looking For

Serve as Controls Task Lead in support of HNTB’s efforts for the Metro Nashville Choose How You Move (CHYM) program. CHYM is Nashville's multi-billion-dollar voter-approved plan to modernize transportation and give everyone safer, more reliable ways to get around. Implementation is underway, delivering practical investments in safety, reliability, and access that work for everyone, whether you walk, roll, ride, bike, or drive. This opportunity entails being responsible for providing technical support for multiple project controls functions including but not limited to: scheduling, estimating, cost control, risk management, document control, and project management information systems. The Project Controls Specialist II reports on schedule and cost control for projects involving cost and schedule work breakdown structures and metrics, analyzing data and presenting results, updating and maintaining the project controls system, and ensuring work processes are used according to procedures. At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

What You’ll Do

• Prepare and analyze master project/program schedule, baseline schedules, progress schedules, specialty schedules, schedules analysis and project progress reporting. Works with schedulers, as appropriate, to perform schedule duties as defined. Provide or review schedule updates, produce exception reports of schedule deviations, and recommend recovery plans.
• Develop cost estimates, including conceptual estimates, change order estimates, and other estimates as defined. Develop cost report templates, as needed. Prepare and issue budget/cost and change management reports. Produce regular budget/cost reports, including current status, forecast at completion, and variance versus baseline budget.
• Oversee and maintain project management control system (PMCS) and/or document controls system, as relevant. Oversee document control resources and/or perform document controls responsibilities for engineering, procurement and construction documentation.
• Establish and/or maintain project controls procedures for projects, including cost estimating, budget/cost management, scheduling, document control, reporting, risk management and claims analysis functions.
• Assess the cost and schedule impacts of design/construction changes and assist project leadership / staff in developing workarounds and schedule recovery plans. Identify trends and deviations and recommend corrective measures to be implemented. Regularly communicates to project management regarding deviations, risks, and trends that are, or may, impact project cost and schedule. Analyze issues to determine root causes of variances and make recommendations for correcting deviations to maintain cost and schedule targets.
• Develop and produce reports for client and project management (PM) staff to monitor progress and status of project. Prepares PM for internal and external meetings by providing reports, analysis, and backup documentation to assist in the management of the project and dissemination of information/ reports/ deliverables to the PM, client, and stakeholders.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related field and 6 years' relevant experience
• In lieu of education, 10 years' relevant experience, or 6 years' relevant direct contractor experience

What We Prefer

• Experience with transportation.
• Project Controls experience in three or more phases of project lifecycle (e.g., predesign, design, procurement, construction, and post-construction phases)
• Project Controls experience working as client's PM/CM agent (e.g., providing program management/construction management services), or as part of design-build contractor (or equivalent design and construction experience)
• Proven experience with the full suite of project controls disciplines on a major program management or general engineering consultant contract.
• Proven experience coordinating with client leadership to successfully discover and deliver client needs by listening well.
• Collaborative approach to partnering with teammates and the client to deliver a multi-discipline program.
• Preference for location in or ability to relocate to the Nashville area.

Additional Information

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Nashville, TN (City Center)

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Job Type: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full time

Job Category: Project Controls Group

ReqID: R-31379

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