Project Controls Specialist II

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Nashville, TN, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Design
The Role
Serves as a controls task lead for a major transportation program, supporting scheduling, estimating, cost control, risk management, document control, reporting, and project management information systems. Analyzes schedule and budget performance, maintains control systems, assesses impacts from changes, identifies variances and risks, recommends recovery actions, and prepares reports for project leadership, clients, and stakeholders.
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What We're Looking For

Serve as Controls Task Lead in support of HNTB’s efforts for the Metro Nashville Choose How You Move (CHYM) program. CHYM is Nashville's multi-billion-dollar voter-approved plan to modernize transportation and give everyone safer, more reliable ways to get around. Implementation is underway, delivering practical investments in safety, reliability, and access that work for everyone, whether you walk, roll, ride, bike, or drive.
This opportunity entails being responsible for providing technical support for multiple project controls functions including but not limited to: scheduling, estimating, cost control, risk management, document control, and project management information systems.
The Project Controls Specialist II reports on schedule and cost control for projects involving cost and schedule work breakdown structures and metrics, analyzing data and presenting results, updating and maintaining the project controls system, and ensuring work processes are used according to procedures.
At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

What You’ll Do:

  • Prepare and analyze master project/program schedule, baseline schedules, progress schedules, specialty schedules, schedules analysis and project progress reporting. Works with schedulers, as appropriate, to perform schedule duties as defined. Provide or review schedule updates, produce exception reports of schedule deviations, and recommend recovery plans.
  • Develop cost estimates, including conceptual estimates, change order estimates, and other estimates as defined. Develop cost report templates, as needed. Prepare and issue budget/cost and change management reports. Produce regular budget/cost reports, including current status, forecast at completion, and variance versus baseline budget.
  • Oversee and maintain project management control system (PMCS) and/or document controls system, as relevant.  Oversee document control resources and/or perform document controls responsibilities for engineering, procurement and construction documentation.
  • Establish and/or maintain project controls procedures for projects, including cost estimating, budget/cost management, scheduling, document control, reporting, risk management and claims analysis functions.
  • Assess the cost and schedule impacts of design/construction changes and assist project leadership / staff in developing workarounds and schedule recovery plans. Identify trends and deviations and recommend corrective measures to be implemented. Regularly communicates to project management regarding deviations, risks, and trends that are, or may, impact project cost and schedule. Analyze issues to determine root causes of variances and make recommendations for correcting deviations to maintain cost and schedule targets.
  • Develop and produce reports for client and project management (PM) staff to monitor progress and status of project. Prepares PM for internal and external meetings by providing reports, analysis, and backup documentation to assist in the management of the project and dissemination of information/ reports/ deliverables to the PM, client, and stakeholders.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related field and 6 years' relevant experience
  • In lieu of education, 10 years' relevant experience, or 6 years' relevant direct contractor experience

What We Prefer:

  • Experience with transportation.

  • Project Controls experience in three or more phases of project lifecycle (e.g., predesign, design, procurement, construction, and post-construction phases)

  • Project Controls experience working as client's PM/CM agent (e.g., providing program management/construction management services), or as part of design-build contractor (or equivalent design and construction experience)

  • Proven experience with the full suite of project controls disciplines on a major program management or general engineering consultant contract.

  • Proven experience coordinating with client leadership to successfully discover and deliver client needs by listening well.

  • Collaborative approach to partnering with teammates and the client to deliver a multi-discipline program. 

  • Preference for location in or ability to relocate to the Nashville area.

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Nashville, TN (City Center)

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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies.  Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB.  HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related field
  • Six years of relevant experience
  • In lieu of education, ten years of relevant experience
  • Six years of relevant direct contractor experience as an alternative qualification
  • Transportation industry experience
  • Project controls experience across at least three project lifecycle phases
  • Project controls experience as a client PM/CM agent or with a design-build contractor
  • Experience with the full suite of project controls disciplines on a major program management or general engineering consultant contract
  • Experience coordinating with client leadership to identify and deliver client needs
  • Collaborative experience partnering with multidisciplinary teams and clients
  • Preference for living in or being able to relocate to the Nashville area

HNTB Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • Retirement Support Retirement programs are viewed as a standout, with the ESOP and 401(k) described as valuable long‑term wealth components. Accounts note meaningful accumulation through ownership over time.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility Employee ownership is accessible from day one via the ESOP, enabling broad participation in firm performance. This accessibility is credited with enhancing long‑term compensation value.
  • Affordable Benefits Health insurance is described as covering most costs with low out‑of‑pocket expenses. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options contribute to perceived affordability.

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The Company
HQ: Kansas City, MO
7,233 Employees
Year Founded: 1914

What We Do

At HNTB, we are committed to making connections possible and creating a better tomorrow. As an employee-owned infrastructure solutions firm, we believe that mobility plays an important role in helping to unlock a brighter future for communities everywhere. That's why we work to deliver innovative transportation systems and infrastructure solutions that connect people and expand opportunity. Our approach is rooted in collaboration, and we work closely with our clients and partners to create innovative solutions that meet the unique needs of each community we serve. With more than a century of service, we are working to build a future where everyone has access to safe, reliable and efficient transportation options. Professionals work alongside clients nationwide to address their most complex technical, financial and operational challenges — providing a full range of infrastructure-related services, including planning, design, program management and construction management. Together, we are making connections possible

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