Sr. Project Controls Specialist

Requisition Number: 2722

Job Title: Sr. Project Controls Specialist

Date Opened: 9/9/2025

Location: Metairie

Industry: Oil & Gas

Department: Project Controls

Employment Type: Full-TIme Regular

Part-Time Available: No

Eligible for US Work Authorization Sponsorship: No

FLSA Exemption: Exempt (Eligible for Straight-Time Overtime)

Job Summary:

The Project Controls Specialist is responsible for ensuring that all project activities and costs are kept on schedule and tracked accordingly.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Assist project manager to develop project scope of work

- Study and understand all relevant project documents pertaining to the preparation of plans and schedules

- Work with all relevant project and discipline personnel to prepare plans and schedules

- Convert scope of work document into logically linked, resourced project schedule

- Prepare realistic, achievable schedules as logical networks and where necessary integrate engineering, procurement and construction schedules.

- Develop progress curves and manpower histograms

- Develop cost curves and cash flow histogram

- Establish cost breakdown structure

- Assist in development of CTR

- Review time-writing and develop weekly staffing reports

- Collect expended man-hours and prepare Earned Value analysis reports

- Gather accurate progress and expended man hours information at relevant time intervals

- Prepare, review and ensure the timely issue of all relevant reports to stakeholders

- Verbally and in writing advise project management and discipline personnel on impacts, contingencies and generally guide the scopes towards the earliest possible finish

- Provide realistic resource forecast data at a project and corporate level

- Maintain realistic future work forecast plans for resource management

- Coordinate with vendors and fabricators invoicing requirements

- Provide input into the budget forecasting process

- Issue weekly and monthly cost reports

- Mentor other, less experienced schedulers

- Train, encourage and provide guidance to schedulers, junior and assistant personnel

- Manage cost discipline to ensure accurate and timely control and forecasting of man-hour budgets and ensure that the impact of all change requests are properly assessed and included in the schedules

- Participate in schedule risk analysis as required

- Analyze progress and effects on schedule and advise necessary corrective actions

- Work with accounting on the development and issue of monthly invoices

- Track actual costs and prepare cost forecasts

- Participate in quantitative cost risk analysis

- Participate in project risk analysis

Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):

- Requires a High-School Diploma or Equivalent;

- Requires a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience in an applicable project controls role performing listed duties;

- Project controls experience in the Oil & Gas industry;

- Requires an excellent working knowledge of project management software, specifically Primavera P6 & Excel.

- Requires the ability to manage multiple projects and determine priorities

- Must have an excellent understanding of the basic principles of project management

- Must have a proven record and experience leading the project controls effort on assigned projects

- Must have a high degree of computer literacy

- Must have experience implementing corporate and contract specific planning procedures

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree preferred

- Power BI and Acumen Fuse are a plus

Working Conditions:

- Work is primarily conducted in an office environment (Private or Semi-Private office) but also requires occasional travel to off-site work locations.

- Field duties require outdoor work in a plant or offshore platform atmosphere;

- Interaction with other team members, as well as supervisors and client personnel;

- Working offshore or in plant and/or shop areas around production machinery with extreme noise levels;

- Must be able to wear safety equipment as required by the safety department for personal protection;

- May be at more than one job site in a day and must be able to tolerate climate changes;

- May be required to travel out of town on a periodic basis.