Senior Project Controls & Cost Specialist

HPM; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HPM is a national capital program management firm partnering with owners to lead complex capital improvement programs from planning through execution. It provides leadership, oversight, and advisory services to manage risk, control cost, and deliver complex projects.

HPM employs over 200 professionals serving industries including industrial, manufacturing, aviation, education, municipal, hospitality, and sports.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of project cost controls experience or extensive project management experience in large, complex facilities construction and on-site management of new construction and renovations.
• Strong technical knowledge in construction contracts and cost management.
• Strong analytical skills for estimate analysis, bid evaluations, budget monitoring, cash flow analysis, risk analysis and benchmarking project costs.
• Strong leadership, communication and problem solving; experience coordinating and executing project issues.
• Good understanding of estimating from conceptual through definitive construction estimates.
• CPM Scheduling with Primavera P6 experience including cost control, change management and cost projection.
• Experience in project controls, commercial operations with emphasis on project controls and financial issues.
• Proficiency with MS Office, Excel Macros, MS Access, Power BI and dashboard development.

Responsibilities

• Review invoices against contract terms and conditions.
• Assist in standardizing processes and tools, deploy HPM solutions, share knowledge across the project controls community.
• Support project teams in planning and execution phases, including training as needed.
• Draft reports for clients based on cost timelines and site inspections.
• Conduct accrual analysis and coordinate with payment processing for vendor payments.
• Develop WBS and CBS structures for cost reporting.
• Produce weekly, monthly, and special client reports tracking project progress and status.
• Maintain funding availability with expenditure records and projections.
• Manage project costs, budgets, forecasts, commitments, accruals, WBS, milestones, risks and KPIs.
• Oversee change control, schedule baseline, and current budget reflecting approved changes.
• Perform earned value analyses to identify risks in schedule and cost variances; use cost-loaded schedules when possible.
• Track budget transfers, uncommitted costs, and contingencies.
• Present findings to clients with clear articulation and promote collaboration across parties.
• Provide monthly project status reports (cost, risk, manpower) to PM teams.
• Provide cash flow projections to manage capital and client outlays; compare actuals to forecasts.
• Reconcile project cost with cost reporting accuracy.
• Set up cost control systems for contracts requiring validated cost/schedule controls.
• Support claims and variance analysis reporting with MS Project, Primavera, Excel.
• Support Senior Project Controls Manager with data management for multiple sites.
• Support initial formalization of project controls function for large design projects.
• Maintain historical cost databases through budgets, commitments, WIP, invoices and forecasts.

Skills

Forecasting

Cost controls

Change management

Cost management

Earned value

Risk management

CPM Scheduling

MS Project

Primavera P6

Excel

Power BI

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Building Science, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Business Admin

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

Excel

MS Access

Power BI

Job description

HPM is a national capital program management firm partnering with owners to lead complex capital improvement programs from planning through execution. It provides leadership, oversight, and advisory services to manage risk, control cost, and deliver complex projects.

HPM employs over 200 professionals serving industries including industrial, manufacturing, aviation, education, municipal, hospitality, and sports.