Project Controls Specialist

Job Description

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, and is a hybrid position.

• Responsible for schedule management to support energy projects.
• Establish baseline schedule: durations, critical path, logic, resources, costs, cost curves, resource histograms.
• Responsible for updating and analyzing detailed execution schedules for major programs.
• On a monthly basis, review and integrate contractor schedules into the program master schedule.
• Act as the lead to manage scheduling team for the project.
• Organize and chair monthly schedule review meetings with the client team.
• Chair bi‑weekly schedule update calls with different discipline leads.
• Develop and update project progress monthly.
• Review subcontractor’s schedules and monitor their performance.
• Perform Earned Value analysis reports.
• Schedule Change Management.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a 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.
• Proficiency with critical path method analysis and Primavera.
• Project financial forecasting skills.
• Change Order and Extension of Time analysis experience.
• 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 preparing project reports and documentation.
• Building construction and/or project management experience.
• Team player with strong communication skills.
• The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career, including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, retirement savings, paid sick leave, paid vacation, paid parental leave, and paid time off for bereavement, voting, or naturalization proceedings.

Expected Salary (all locations): $103,500‑$150,200. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and to offer additional compensation depending on circumstances unrelated to a candidate’s protected status.

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.