Project Controls Specialist

AFRY is an international engineering, design, and advisory company. We support our clients through delivering solutions and progressing sustainability and digitalization for generations to come. Our dedicated team of over 18,000 experts, across 40 countries on 5 continents, provides strategic and operational knowledge and advice across the value chain, underpinned by deep expertise and professional insights. AFRY USA supports process industry clients in Pulp & Paper, Mining & Metals, Food & Beverage, Chemicals, and Biorefining. Our expertise and know-how add value to our client’s investments at every stage of their lifecycle, from sustaining CAPEX to large capital projects.

Making Future is about creating an impact and driving sustainable change.

Our service offerings cover the entire project lifecycle, from corporate strategies to engineering studies and estimates, through implementation engineering, construction support, and commissioning and start-up services. We provide to our client’s world-class project deliveries, market insights & strategies, and operational efficiency improvement evaluations. Best-in-class management and technical consulting, multi-disciplinary engineering design, on-site support, project, and construction management services are our key offerings.

Welcome to a world engineered by AFRY.

Join a future-driven company focusing on creating sustainable solutions for society. With AFRY, you will be able to explore a variety of opportunities and challenges. We believe in succeeding together – making a difference when we pull in the same direction – with colleagues, clients, and partners. You will be part of a global, inclusive, and diverse company where our differences are our strengths. 

Seeking a Project Controls Specialist to be a part of the project controls team who has a comprehensive understanding of Project Controls principles, theories, concepts, current industry practices and standards. You can live anywhere within the U.S. to support our team successfully, ideally in the Central or Eastern Region of the U.S. 

You may be responsible for all cost elements of the project, including scope changes, inputting or updating budget information, expenditure information, and forecasts into the cost reporting system(s). We will lean on you to prepare and analyze revenue and cost, this would also include recommending corrective actions to the project manager.  

You will be key in setting up, monitoring, and forecasting all elements on the project for both cost and schedule. You will be responsible for collaborating within the team to develop and build project schedules using Interactive Planning sessions. You will status the schedule activities, perform critical path analysis, integrate change notices with known impacts and provide recommendations to the project team, which will help drive us to a successful project delivery. You will also be responsible to resource load the schedule to determine peak staffing needs within Engineering and Construction. 

This position reports administratively to the Project Controls Manager and functionally to the assigned Project Manager. A working relationship will exist with clients, vendors, members of the project team and other AFRY business units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical years of experience 

• At least 5 years of Project Controls demonstrated experience in the following markets: Consumer Products, Pulp & Paper, Foundry, Chemical Processing, Electric Vehicles, and/or Data Centers 

• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project 

• Proven experience with Project Controls principles and methods including, but not limited to: Budgeting, Forecasting, Change Management, Work Breakdown Structures, Earned Value, Contingency, Schedule Planning, development, updating, and resource loading 

• Ability to effectively communicate with project management, other project leads, the client, vendors, and construction management 

• Ability to proactively identify potential problems and elevate these to the appropriate level(s) of management 

• Thorough planning and organizational skills 

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary engineering environment 

• Ability to perform presentations to AFRY management team 

• Experience in Deltek Maconomy 

• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office products, especially MS Excel 

• Knowledge of Power BI 

• Ideally, you will also have: 

   

Additional Information

AFRY USA offers you:

• Competitive performance-oriented compensation
• Competitive benefits - Medical, dental, vision, life, short-term and long-term disability, accident, critical illness, identity theft protection,  401(k) with company match, paid vacation, and holidays
• Opportunity to work with recognized global industry leaders within AFRY
• Ability to work with employees from many different cultures and backgrounds
• A firm that believes by working together we can create a new energy era in which the world can become more sustainable
• Various forms of flexibility to help you integrate your life with your professional commitments
• You must have the right to live and work in the United States of America 

At AFRY, we believe that having the best people attracts the best projects, and having the best projects attracts the best people. We work in a global environment with a strong focus on the needs of our local clients.

We only accept online applications.

AFRY is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

At AFRY, we engineer change in everything we do. Change happens when brave ideas come together. When we collaborate, innovate technology, and embrace challenging points of view. That’s how we're making future. We are actively looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. Join us in accelerating the transition towards a sustainable future.