Project Controls Specialist

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have delivered solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity involves providing technical support for multiple project controls functions including scheduling, estimating, cost control, risk management, document control, and project management information systems. The Project Controls Specialist I assists with reporting on cost controls and schedules for projects involving cost and schedule work breakdown structures and metrics, updating and maintaining the project controls system, and document controls to ensure documents are filed appropriately and work processes are used according to project procedures.

• Prepare material, labor, and equipment cost estimates for concept designs, design development documents, bid documents, and change orders.
• Assist in the development of conceptual estimates reflecting the potential budget of a project at a highly preliminary stage of design development and develop Independent Cost Estimates (ICE) to support the change management process for active projects.
• Create, maintain and control budgets and schedules from design concept through project completion, utilizing detailed cost estimates to develop schedules reflective of labor hours and resource needs.
• Participate in reviewing and assessing the project team or contractor monthly progress schedule updates on active projects and provide advisory input to the project manager or client/owner on the proposed disposition of the progress schedule update.
• Support the development of cost forecasts and trends and analyze the accrual of actual costs, evaluating and documenting historical cost data to maintain current estimating standards and databases.
• Consult with the project team or client/owner regarding potential claims, claims avoidance, and claims support.
• Support the preparation of reports and performance dashboards for a variety of project controls metrics, analyze data, and create and/or participate in client presentations.
• Assist with defining project risks and maintaining the project risk register, escalating risks and partnering with the project team to propose mitigation plans.
• Support project controls technology and project management control systems (PMCS); may assist in implementing an appropriate PMCS solution.
• May participate in negotiations on behalf of the client, including supporting price negotiations, contacting vendors for quotes, and leading change order negotiations as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related field and 3 years of relevant experience, or
• In lieu of education, 7 years of relevant experience or 3 years of relevant direct contractor experience.

• AACE Project Risk Management Professional (PRMP), PMI Risk Management Professional (RMP), or equivalent.
• Experience in two or more phases of the project lifecycle (e.g., predesign, design, procurement, construction, post-construction).
• Experience working as a client’s PM/CM agent or as part of a design-build contractor (or equivalent design and construction experience).
• Working knowledge of P6, Procore, and Microsoft Office software packages.

Job Type: Regular
Full/Part Time:
Full time
Job Category:
Project Controls Group
ReqID: R-30539

Salt Lake City, UT