Senior Project Controls & Analytics Specialist

Cockram; Durham, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

FSA/HSA/HRA options

Life insurance

Short and long-term disability

401K with 4% match

3 weeks paid vacation

Paid sick time

8 paid holidays + 2 floating holidays

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Cockram Construction, Inc. in Wilson, North Carolina seeks a Senior Project Controls Specialist to deliver integrated reporting on invoicing, cost, schedule, and earned value.

You will transform large datasets into auditable, decision-useful visuals for Project Controls, PMO, and Site Leadership. The ideal candidate combines advanced data mining with construction and scheduling knowledge, supports Oracle Primavera Cloud, and develops concise Power BI dashboards and Excel models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field and 5+ years in project controls or analytics.
• Experience with invoice review, financial reconciliation, and schedule reporting.
• Working knowledge of construction terminology, earned progress, SPI/LPI, milestones, float erosion, and critical-path concepts.
• Pharma, life-sciences, manufacturing, engineering, or construction environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Validate and reconcile invoices, cost codes, work packages, purchase orders, and documentation.
• Maintain logs, aging reports, and audit-ready records; coordinate with stakeholders.
• Extract and reconcile data from earned value, cost reports, dashboards, and schedules.
• Support Power BI dashboards, Excel models, and standard data visualizations.
• Identify data anomalies, forecast movement, and reconciliation gaps for leadership review.
• Support schedule data exports from Primavera Cloud or similar tools.
• Interpret high-level schedules and relationships between planned and earned progress.
• Ensure data quality and traceability across reports and sources.
• Document rules, data sources, calculations, and limitations for maintainability.
• Collaborate with Project Controls, Scheduling, Finance, and PMO to deliver timely analysis.

Skills

Excel

Power BI

Data analysis

Schedule analysis

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Data Analytics, Engineering, Construction Management, Information Systems

Tools

Oracle Primavera Cloud

Microsoft Project

V-Planner

Perform

Job description

Cockram Construction, Inc. in Wilson, North Carolina seeks a Senior Project Controls Specialist to deliver integrated reporting on invoicing, cost, schedule, and earned value.

You will transform large datasets into auditable, decision-useful visuals for Project Controls, PMO, and Site Leadership. The ideal candidate combines advanced data mining with construction and scheduling knowledge, supports Oracle Primavera Cloud, and develops concise Power BI dashboards and Excel models.