Cost Controller

• Project Controller fully responsible for the complete scope of services described below, including all sub-contracted services. All such services must be properly integrated to meet Client’s project controls and governance requirements. All deliverables, reporting, and communications shall be provided in English.
• The engagement is expected to require one full-time Project Controller for approximately 40 hours per week for a 52-week duration, commencing on or about August 3, 2026. The Project Controller is expected to provide on-site support at Client’s Brooklyn Park, Minnesota facility four days per week, with one day per week permitted remote unless otherwise agreed by Client. Bidders shall confirm resource availability for the full engagement duration and identify any assumptions or exceptions related to on-site presence, remote work, or continuity of support.
• The Project Controller shall perform the following services, organized into the core areas of responsibility below.

Own the development, maintenance, and reporting of the integrated project schedule in Microsoft Project:

• Develop the integrated project schedule (IPS) in Microsoft Project, aligned to the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), with appropriate activity durations, logic relationships, constraints, and resource/cost loading including technical transfer, regulatory and operational ramp-up activities.
• Establish, obtain approval of, and maintain the baseline schedule; administer schedule baseline change control and document all revisions.
• Collect progress and percent-complete data across all project work streams, including engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, technical transfer, operational readiness, automation, and CQV activities. Progress measurement shall be based on deliverable completion and achievement of defined milestones, or alternatively, an agreed-upon progress measurement methodology jointly established by Client, the General Contractor, Automation Supplier, and CQV providers. Update actual dates, remaining durations, progress status, and forecasted completion dates on a defined reporting cycle (e.g., weekly).
• Perform critical path and total-float analysis; identify critical and near-critical activities and communicate schedule threats and opportunities.
• Produce rolling look-ahead schedules (e.g., 3-week and 6-week) and milestone tracking reports.
• Integrate contractor and vendor schedules into the master schedule and verify their logic and progress.
• Perform what-if and recovery-schedule scenario analysis to support decision-making and mitigate delays.
• Maintain the schedule basis document and ensure schedule assumptions are documented and current.
• Report schedule performance (Schedule Performance Index, planned vs. actual progress, variance to baseline) in the agreed cadence and format.

Establish and maintain the project cost controls framework and provide accurate cost status and forecasts:

• Develop, maintain, and manage the project cost baseline and control budget aligned with the approved capital appropriation, structured by Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) Levels 1, 2, and 3, including Main Equipment costs.
• Track and reconcile commitments, actuals, and accruals against budget; coordinate purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and invoice review with procurement and finance.
• Prepare monthly cost reports including budget, committed cost, incurred cost, forecast, Estimate to Complete (ETC), and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Develop and maintain the project cash flow / expenditure forecast (spend curve), track spend per the cost break down structure (CBS) categories.
• Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) where…