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Project Control Specialist - ID or NY

Parsons Corporation
Syracuse, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 10/15/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/13/2026
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Job Description

Parsons is looking for a talented Project Controls Specialist to join our team! In this role you will support transparent tracking of cost, schedule, progress, productivity, risk, contingency, and performance metrics across selected projects.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Administer project controls systems and processes and support monitoring of budget performance, commitments, and actual expenditures.
  • Analyze cost and schedule variances and maintain a performance measurement baseline approved by client.
  • Work with project controls and financial teams to support accurate forecasting, assess the fiscal impact of changes, and recommend cost and performance optimization actions.
  • Prepare standardized project controls reports that may include earned value analysis, cost-at-completion forecasting, schedule performance metrics, productivity indicators, variance explanations, KPI dashboards, and trend analysis.
  • Present project controls reports and supporting detail to project leadership as requested.
  • Maintain contingency drawdown logs, performance trend logs, and forecast variance registers.
  • Prepare contingency adequacy assessments that evaluate remaining contingency against risks, projected cost exposure, earned value trends, schedule trends, and KPI performance.
  • Recommend adjustments to contingency, forecasts, or performance management actions based on changing project conditions.


What Required Skills You’ll Bring

  • Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, finance, business, or related field, or equivalent and 10 years of related work experience.
  • Experience in project controls on large capital construction programs.
  • Strong knowledge of cost reporting, forecasting, earned value, KPI tracking, and variance analysis.
  • Ability to develop executive-level dashboards and detailed supporting analysis.
  • Strong Excel and project controls systems experience.


What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

  • Experience on EPC or CMA-delivered projects.
  • Familiarity with contingency management and trend register administration.
  • Experience in semiconductor, industrial, or mission-critical construction environments.


Security Clearance Requirement

None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

Salary Range: $103,500.00 - $181,100.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.

Salary : $103,500 - $181,100

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