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Project Controls Specialist

WSP in the U.S.
Kansas, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 4/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/6/2026
Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Project Controls team. This role can be based in either St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, or Fort Mill. This is a hybrid role.

Your Impact

Job Duties:

  • Responsible for schedule management to support energy projects.
  • Establish baseline schedule: durations, critical path, logic, resources, costs, cost curves, resource histograms.
  • Responsible for updating and analyzing detailed execution schedules for major programs.
  • On monthly basis, review and integrate contractor schedules into the program master schedule
  • Act as the lead to manage scheduling team for the project
  • Organize and chair monthly schedule review meeting with client team
  • Chair bi-weekly schedule update calls with different discipline leads
  • Develop and update project progress monthly.
  • Review subcontractor’s schedules and monitor their performance.
  • Perform Earned Value analysis reports
  • Schedule Change Management.
  • Perform time impact analyses (TIA) to determine the extent of the impacts of potential delays and provide recommendations for schedule recovery.
  • Assess and provide recommendations to resolve scope changes or delays to the Project Team and Executive Management.


Who You Are

Minimum Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience.
  • 7 years of experience in developing and managing project schedules.
  • Civil infrastructure or energy/transmission distribution market experience.
  • Experience supporting large mega projects
  • Experienced with critical path method analysis/technique with Primavera.
  • Project financial forecasting skills.
  • Change Order and Extension of Time analysis.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience working within large and challenging client programs with one or more project teams.
  • Effective reporting and communication skills.
  • Experience in preparing project reports and documentation.
  • Building construction and or project management experience
  • Team player and Strong communication skills


WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:

Expected Salary (all locations): $103,500-$150,200

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

About WSP

ABOUT US

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

www.wsp.com

WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

Salary : $103,500 - $150,200

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