Project Controls Specialist – Nuclear
Title: Sr. Project Controls Specialist – Nuclear
Location: Perry, OH / Shippingport, PA / Potentially Remote
Duration: 11+ months
Pay Range: $60 – $75/hr depending on experience.
Per Diem: $178/day (if onsite)
Target Start Date / Availability: ASAP
This position can be remote for senior level candidates
Job Summary
We are seeking a mid to senior-level Project Controls Specialist to support capital projects, plant modifications, outages, and other project activities within the nuclear power industry.
This position will support planning, scheduling, cost control, forecasting, performance measurement, and project reporting. Senior candidates may also lead project controls activities and provide technical guidance to other team members.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain project schedules, cost plans, budgets, and work breakdown structures.
- Monitor cost and schedule performance and identify trends, variances, risks, and potential impacts.
- Collect and analyze labor hours, installed quantities, subcontractor progress, expenditures, and other project performance data.
- Perform earned value, productivity, cost, schedule, and risk analysis.
- Develop forecasts including Estimate at Completion (EAC), remaining costs, and schedule projections.
- Identify and track scope changes and communicate cost and schedule impacts to project management.
- Perform critical path and schedule analysis to identify delays and recovery opportunities.
- Prepare project reports, dashboards, forecasts, and management presentations.
- Coordinate with Project Managers, Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Finance, Operations, and contractors.
- Support project baselines, change management, contractor schedule reviews, and progress validation.
- Senior-level candidates may provide technical guidance and lead project controls activities for major projects.
The source framework describes this level as independently performing planning/scheduling and cost engineering, applying advanced project controls techniques, integrating cost and schedule data, managing change, and performing critical path analysis.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of project controls, planning/scheduling, and/or cost engineering experience; 10+ years preferred for senior-level consideration.
- Nuclear power generation experience preferred.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Finance, or related field preferred.
- Strong knowledge of scheduling, cost control, forecasting, budgeting, and performance measurement.
- Experience with Primavera P6 or similar scheduling software.
- Experience with CPM scheduling, earned value, change management, and project reporting.
- Strong Excel skills and experience with project cost or ERP systems.
- Ability to independently analyze project data and communicate risks, trends, and recommendations.
- Strong communication skills with project management, engineering, construction, contractors, and leadership.
The provided guidelines identify the senior project controls range as beginning around 7 years of relevant experience, with typical experience extending into the 10–15+ year range for more senior responsibilities.
Preferred Experience
- Nuclear capital projects or outages
- Plant modifications and design changes
- Contractor cost and schedule oversight
- Project risk and change management
- Engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning schedules
- Large capital project reporting and forecasting
FootBridge is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We make employment decisions based on qualifications and business needs, without discrimination on any basis, and we welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.
