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Project Controls Specialist

FootBridge
Lebanon, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 8/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/27/2026

Role: Project Controls Specialist

Salary: $85K-$105K

Location: Lebanon, IN

Duration: Permanent/Direct Hire


As a Project Controls Specialist, you will support project performance through accurate cost tracking, schedule analysis, forecasting, labor reporting, change management, and project controls reporting. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced construction project controls professional to work alongside Project Managers, Operations, Accounting, and field leadership on a high-profile industrial project.


Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain project schedules, cost performance information, forecasting data, and project controls reports.
  • Prepare cost reports, change order documentation, manpower reports, forecasting updates, and other project performance reports.
  • Review cost, schedule, and manpower data to identify variances, risks, and trends and communicate findings to project leadership.
  • Support change management processes, ensuring scope changes, change orders, and related impacts are properly documented and tracked.
  • Analyze committed and actual costs and ensure accurate assignment to appropriate budget and cost codes.
  • Track, validate, and report labor hours and manpower data for craft personnel, subcontractors, and internal teams.
  • Support resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6 and other project controls systems.
  • Collaborate with Project Management, Accounting, Procurement, Operations, and field leadership on forecasting, cost management, scheduling, and reporting.
  • Identify reporting and operational issues, perform root-cause analysis, and support corrective actions to minimize project risk and cost or schedule impacts.


Qualifications

  • Minimum of five (5) years of experience in project controls, project coordination, cost engineering, scheduling, or a related construction discipline.
  • Experience supporting industrial, life sciences, mechanical, electrical, or other complex construction projects preferred.
  • Experience with scheduling, forecasting, cost tracking, labor reporting, change management, and project performance reporting required.
  • Experience with Primavera P6, Vist by Viewpoint, or similar project controls, scheduling, ERP, or cost management systems preferred.
  • Strong collaboration skills with Project Management, Accounting, Procurement, Operations, subcontractors, and field leadership required.


Apply today if you have experience as a: Project Controls Specialist, Project Controls Analyst, Cost Engineer, Project Controls Engineer, Cost Controls Specialist, Scheduler, Project Scheduler, Cost Analyst, Project Controls Coordinator, Cost and Scheduling Engineer, Planner/Scheduler, Project Cost Controller, Controls Specialist, Construction Cost Engineer, or Project Controls Manager.


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.

Salary : $85,000 - $105,000

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