[Hiring] Senior Project Controls Specialist @MATRIX

Role Description

MATRIX is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Project Controls Specialist to join our dynamic team. In this position, the Sr. Project Controls Specialist will support the client in the corporate Project Management Office by providing integrated cost, schedule, risk, and earned value management support for high-value capital and construction projects. This individual will work closely with project managers, engineering, procurement, construction teams, finance, contractors, vendors, and corporate leadership to establish effective project controls and provide accurate visibility into project performance.

The Senior Project Controls Specialist will integrate information from multiple project disciplines to evaluate current performance, identify emerging risks and trends, forecast potential outcomes, and support timely corrective action. The position requires a well-rounded project-controls professional capable of connecting cost, schedule, risk, and earned value data into a clear and reliable view of project health information into an integrated schedule that supports informed decisions, accountability, and successful project delivery.

DURATION: 12 Months

WORK SCHEDULE: TBD

LOCATION: Remote with light travel to select sites

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience providing integrated project-controls support for major capital or construction projects.
• Strong working knowledge of project cost control, scheduling, risk management, change control, forecasting, and earned value management methodologies.
• Experience developing and maintaining cost and schedule baselines and integrated performance measurement baselines.
• Proficiency in critical path method scheduling, schedule logic, progress measurement, float analysis, baselining, and forecasting.
• Experience managing project budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, contingency, and estimates at completion.
• Experience developing and analyzing earned value metrics and performance indicators.
• Ability to integrate cost, schedule, risk, change, and progress information into a comprehensive assessment of project performance.
• Experience identifying project trends, evaluating potential impacts, and supporting corrective or recovery actions.
• Experience reviewing contractor and vendor project-controls deliverables.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex project data from multiple sources.
• Ability to clearly communicate project performance, risks, variances, and forecasts to project teams and senior leadership.
• Strong organizational, facilitation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Advanced proficiency with scheduling, cost-management, spreadsheet, data-analysis, and reporting tools.
• Strong understanding of critical path method scheduling, schedule logic, float analysis, baselining, progress measurement, forecasting, and schedule change management.
• The ability to communicate well both verbally and written as a business necessity to ensure the safe and efficient operations of business.
• Clear, concise, and effective fluency in the English language is essential.

Requirements

• Develop and maintain integrated project-controls plans covering cost, schedule, risk, change management, progress measurement, forecasting, and earned value management.
• Establish work breakdown structures, cost breakdown structures, organizational breakdown structures, control accounts, coding structures, and reporting requirements.
• Support the development and maintenance of integrated project schedules, cost baselines, performance measurement baselines, and project forecasts.
• Coordinate cost and schedule information to ensure project reporting reflects a consistent and supportable execution forecast.
• Monitor budgets, commitments, expenditures, accruals, actual costs, forecasts, contingency, and estimate-at-completion values.
• Analyze schedule progress, critical and near-critical paths, total float, milestone performance, constraints, and forecast completion dates.
• Develop and maintain project risk registers, facilitate risk reviews, and support qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.
• Evaluate the potential cost and schedule effects of identified risks and opportunities.
• Support the implementation of earned value management methodologies appropriate to each project’s size, complexity, and reporting requirements.
• Calculate and analyze earned value metrics, including planned value, earned value, actual cost, schedule variance, cost variance, schedule performance index, and cost performance index.
• Develop and maintain objective progress-measurement methods and rules of credit.
• Perform variance, trend, productivity, performance, and estimate-at-completion analyses.
• Identify deviations from approved baselines and work with project teams to determine root causes and corrective actions.
• Develop forward-looking forecasts using current cost, schedule, risk, and performance information.
• Support project change control by evaluating proposed changes and documenting their potential effects on scope, budget, schedule, risk, and performance baselines.
• Maintain change logs and track approved, pending, and potential changes through resolution.
• Review contractor and vendor cost reports, schedules, progress measurements, forecasts, and supporting documentation.
• Evaluate contractor reporting for completeness, accuracy, logic, consistency, and alignment with project requirements.
• Prepare recurring project-controls reports, dashboards, variance narratives, trend analyses, risk summaries, and executive-level presentations.
• Communicate significant performance issues, emerging risks, forecast changes, and required management decisions to project managers and PMO leadership.
• Facilitate project-controls meetings, schedule reviews, cost reviews, risk workshops, forecasting sessions, and performance reviews.
• Support scenario planning, what-if analysis, recovery planning, and evaluation of alternative execution strategies.
• Reconcile project-controls information with procurement, contract, invoice, and financial-system data.
• Assist the corporate PMO in establishing standardized project-controls procedures, templates, metrics, governance, and reporting practices.
• Support project closeout by reconciling final costs, documenting schedule performance, closing risks and changes, and capturing lessons learned.
• Perform primarily office and non-manual work.
• Perform work related to the management or general business operations of MATRIX or its customers/clients, while exercising discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance to MATRIX and its customers/clients.
• Interface with managers or head of a unit/department requiring the integration of multiple functional organizations.
• Use “lessons learned” to improve quality of MATRIX’s future projects; make recommendations to MATRIX as to the implementations of future policies and procedures.

Benefits