Project Controls Specialist
- Pay Rate: $39.11/hour, depending on experience
- Contract Start Date 2026-11-02 End Date 2028-11-02 (2 years)
- Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Raise is currently hiring a Project Controls Specialist on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our Client, is one of North America's leading energy infrastructure companies with operations in natural gas, oil and power industries throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico
Note: The primary pay rate is based on W2 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an C2C classification, where applicable.
Description
The Project Controls Specialist in this role will support our clients’ capital projects team in West Virginia. In this role, you will provide essential project management support across project initiation, cost management, change management, progress measurement, reporting, and close-out. Working closely alongside Project Managers and under the guidance of experienced Project Controllers, you will help develop and execute monitoring procedures to ensure projects meet their schedule and cost objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviews PC Organizational structure and maintains staffing worksheet
- Good understanding of overall project scope
- Reviews Estimate and provides input for mapping to the control WBS
- Reviews schedule and maintains list of project key milestones
- Maintains project time phasing for control budget and estimate to complete
- Completes requisitions for commitment of project materials and services
- Compiles incurred costs reporting and variance explanations
- Updates cost management system with time phased data, contractor progress and project trends
- Review project invoices to ensure that costs align with incurred costs
- Review contractor cost and progress and provide input to estimate at completion
- Basic awareness of Earned Value Management, rules of credit, and progress measurement
- May monitor cost progress and performance metrics to establish potential and pending trends
- Exercises judgment in the classification, compilation and analysis and project trends
- Participates in HRIM and QRA meetings
- Assists in the preparation and compiling of detailed project cost reports, scorecards, and project scans
- Provides overall support to Intermediate and Senior Project Controls
- Involved in administrative project close-out activities
Requirements
- 1 to 5 years of experience in project controls, cost control, or project administration—ideally supporting low- to moderate-risk capital projects in energy, pipeline, or industrial construction.
- Hands-on experience maintaining control budgets, time-phased data, Estimate to Complete (ETC), and Estimate at Completion (EAC) inputs, alongside updating enterprise cost management systems with contractor progress and project trends.
- Proven ability to compile incurred cost reports, write clear variance explanations, complete material/service requisitions, and audit contractor invoices against actual incurred costs and contract terms.
- Experience mapping project estimates to a control Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and maintaining/tracking key project schedule milestones across multidisciplinary teams (engineering, procurement, construction, and accounting).
- Foundational working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM), rules of credit, and progress measurement, plus demonstrated exposure to risk reviews (such as HRIM or Quantitative Risk Analysis/QRA meetings) to flag pending cost or schedule trends.
- Education and certification’s
- Bachelor’s degree or technical college diploma (Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or Finance)
- Track record of compiling project cost reports, scorecards, project scans, and staffing worksheets, as well as supporting project close-out documentation with high accuracy under structured supervision.
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