Senior Project Controls Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

About Us :

Pickett, an ESP Associates company, is a highly innovative surveying and engineering company with over 60 years of industry experience serving clients throughout the US and Caribbean.

At Pickett, we use the acronym S.O.L.V.E. to define our core values that include : S afety first, O utstanding service, L asting relationships, V alued teamwork and E ngaged culture.

“We solve the problems that matter” and we are always looking to add passionate, motivated, and qualified individuals to our rapidly expanding team.

About the Role :

As a Senior Project Controls Specialist, you will be responsible for providing financial and business support to our Project Managers while preparing comprehensive action plans, resources, timeframes and budgets for projects and senior leadership.

You will perform various tasks, including scheduling and risk management, maintaining project documentation, handling financial queries and other administrative duties.

To succeed in this role, you should have excellent time management and communication skills, as you’ll collaborate with clients and internal teams to deliver results on deadlines.

What You Will Be Doing :

• Provide oversight of Project Controls Specialists and Project Coordinators
• Assign projects and monitor progress of project controls team members
• Work closely with Leadership to maintain consistent processes and incorporate new tools, templates, and methodologies
• Review roll-up of project portfolio to identify risks and opportunities
• Maintain good communication with all stakeholders and facilitate project management best practices across the organization
• Lead project controls for large, complex projects, and Major Projects
• Review, manage, and create tools for project reporting at the corporate level
• Develop and maintain specialized reports for Senior Leadership use
• Work closely with the contracts team on contract management, reviews and organization
• Responsible for supporting project management activities in developing, updating and tracking project costs and schedule, producing reports, as well as maintaining associated systems
• Develop proposals and baseline schedules using Microsoft Project
• Coordinate with clients and team leads to identify and define requirements, scope and objectives
• Prepare reports that outline the projects financial positions in areas of funding and costs
• Assign tasks to internal teams and assist with schedule management
• Make sure the client’s needs are being met as projects evolve
• Coordinate change orders with subconsultants
• Analyze risks and opportunities
• Use tools to monitor project progress, working hours, expenditures and project cash flow
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans and reports
• Ensure standards and requirements are being met through QA / QC
• Collaborate with Pickett’s Business Operations Manager regarding compilation of invoices for review by Project Manager(s)

What You Bring :

So...Why Join Us?

You will have the opportunity to learn, grow and directly contribute to our business. You will also have a very visible and tangible impact by solving real world problems.

You will contribute significantly to the growth and development of our company while also continuing to be challenged and inspired along the way!

Pickett offers an excellent employee benefits package including :