WSP

Project Controls Specialist

WSP$103K — $150K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years managing project schedules
  • Experience in civil infrastructure or energy/transmission distribution
  • Track record with large-scale mega projects
  • Proficient in critical path method analysis using Primavera
  • Strong project financial forecasting abilities
  • Experience with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Manage schedule for Power and Energy projects
  • Establish baseline schedule including durations and resources
  • Load resources and costs into the schedule
  • Update and analyze execution schedules for major programs
  • Integrate contractor schedules into master schedule
  • Facilitate monthly schedule review meetings with clients
  • Conduct bi-weekly schedule update calls with discipline leads
  • Develop and provide monthly project progress updates
  • Monitor subcontractor schedule performance
  • Perform time impact analyses for potential delays

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability and life insurance
  • Retirement savings plan options
  • Paid sick leave and vacation
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off for bereavement and voting
  • Support for attendance at naturalization proceedings
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Project Controls team. This role can be based in either St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, or Fort Mill. This is a hybrid role.

Your Impact

Job Duties:
  • Responsible for schedule management to support Power and Energy projects.
  • Establish baseline schedule: durations, critical path, logic, resources, costs, cost curves, resource histograms.
  • Responsible for resource and cost loading of the schedule
  • Responsible for updating and analyzing detailed execution schedules for major programs.
  • Review and integrate contractor schedules into the program master schedule
  • Organize and facilitate monthly schedule review meeting with client team
  • Facilitate bi-weekly schedule update calls with different discipline leads
  • Develop and update project progress monthly.
  • Review subcontractor's schedules and monitor their performance.
  • Manage Schedule Changes
  • Perform time impact analyses (TIA) to determine the extent of the impacts of potential delays and provide recommendations for schedule recovery.
  • Assess and provide recommendations to resolve scope changes or delays to the Project Team and Executive Management.


Who You Are

Minimum Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in developing and managing project schedules.
  • Civil infrastructure or energy/transmission distribution market experience.
  • Experience supporting large mega projects
  • Experienced with critical path method analysis/technique with Primavera.
  • Project financial forecasting skills.
  • Change Order and Extension of Time analysis.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience working within large and challenging client programs with one or more project teams.
  • Effective reporting and communication skills.
  • Experience in preparing project reports and documentation.
  • Building construction and or project management experience
  • Team player and Strong communication skills


WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:

Expected Salary (all locations): $103,500-$150,200

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
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54,000 employees
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1959

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