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Position Summary
The Project Controls Intern will support the Project Controls team in monitoring, analyzing, and reporting project performance. This role provides hands-on experience in cost control, scheduling, and project financial reconciliation. The intern will assist in maintaining accurate project data, ensuring alignment between budgets, forecasts, and actual expenditures, and supporting timely reporting for decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
Support cost control activities, including tracking budgets, commitments, and actual expenditures
Assist in financial reconciliation of project costs, ensuring consistency between systems and reports
Help maintain and update project control tools, dashboards, and tracking logs
Support schedule monitoring and progress tracking activities
Assist in data collection, validation, and consolidation for reporting purposes
Prepare routine project reports, including cost reports, variance analyses, and forecasts
Identify discrepancies in project data and support resolution efforts
Ensure compliance with internal project control procedures and reporting standards
Provide administrative and analytical support to the Project Controls team as needed
Qualifications
Education
Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in:
Engineering
Construction Management
Finance
Business Administration
or a related field
Experience
No prior experience required; prior internship or coursework in project management, finance, or data analysis is a plus
Skills & Competencies
Basic understanding of project management and/or project controls principles
Strong analytical and numerical skills
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (required)
Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project, Power BI) is a plus
Strong attention to detail and accuracy
Good organizational and time management skills
Effective communication and teamwork abilities
Willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
Skills Required
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, Business Administration, or related field
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Basic understanding of project management and/or project controls principles
- Strong analytical and numerical skills
- Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project, Power BI)
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Effective communication and teamwork abilities
- Willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
- Prior internship or coursework in project management, finance, or data analysis
Fortna Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fortna and has not been reviewed or approved by Fortna.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid volunteer time and substantial PTO are available, with hybrid flexibility in eligible roles. Time-off breadth presents as a strong element of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is emphasized and stands out as a reliable component of total rewards. Retirement offerings are frequently pointed to as a positive anchor of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Healthcare navigation via Quantum Health and mental wellness support through Headspace extend support beyond core insurance. Community engagement and development programs add lifestyle value.
Fortna Insights
What We Do
Fortna partners with the world’s leading brands to transform their distribution operations to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives. Known world-wide as the Distribution Experts™, we design and deliver intelligent solutions, powered by FortnaWES™ software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools, ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our clients with comprehensive services including network strategy, distribution center operations, material handling automation, supply chain systems and warehouse software design and implementation.
