Project Controls Analyst

Position Summary Jedson is seeking a well-rounded Project Controls Analyst to support engineering and capital projects from our Greenville, South Carolina office. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience across both project cost management and CPM scheduling and understand how cost, schedule, progress, forecasting, change, and risk interact. The Project Controls Analyst will develop and maintain project schedules, support project cost management and forecasting, validate progress, analyze performance trends, support change management, and prepare clear project controls reports. This position will work closely with Project Managers, engineering disciplines, procurement, finance, and other project stakeholders to provide accurate performance information, identify emerging risks, and support informed project decisions. The long-term objective of this role is independent ownership of the project controls function for assigned projects. The position is primarily intended for a Project Controls III candidate who can independently manage significant portions of cost and schedule controls. Consideration may also be given to a high-performing Project Controls II candidate who demonstrates strong integrated cost and schedule capabilities, increasing independence, and readiness to advance.

Key Responsibilities

Integrated Project Controls

• Support or independently manage project controls activities for engineering, EPC/EPCM, industrial, manufacturing, and capital projects.
• Develop and maintain project controls plans, reporting structures, progress measurement methods, and project performance baselines.
• Integrate cost, schedule, progress, change, and risk information to provide a complete view of project performance.
• Work with Project Managers and project teams to identify emerging performance concerns and recommend appropriate actions.
• Develop toward independent ownership of the project controls function for assigned projects.

Cost Management and Forecasting

• Track project budgets, commitments, expenditures, actual costs, accruals, and remaining forecasts.
• Develop and maintain estimate-to-complete and estimate-at-completion forecasts.
• Analyze cost performance, trends, and forecast changes.
• Prepare cost variance explanations and support the development of corrective actions.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and audit trails for forecast assumptions and changes.
• Support project change management, including change identification, tracking, impact analysis, and approval documentation.
• Assist Project Managers in understanding the financial implications of project performance and proposed decisions.

Schedule Development and Analysis

• Develop, maintain, and update integrated CPM project schedules.
• Establish and maintain appropriate activity logic, relationships, milestones, calendars, constraints, and coding structures.
• Collect and validate schedule progress from Project Managers, engineering disciplines, procurement, contractors, and vendors.
• Perform critical path, float, milestone, look-ahead, and schedule variance analysis.
• Identify emerging schedule risks and communicate potential impacts to project leadership.
• Support schedule impact analysis, mitigation planning, and recovery planning.
• Evaluate how schedule changes may affect project cost, resource needs, and completion forecasts.

Earned Value and Progress Measurement

• Support the development and maintenance of physical progress measurement methods.
• Validate reported progress against project deliverables, quantities, milestones, or other objective measures.
• Calculate and analyze earned value metrics, including CPI, SPI, ETC, and EAC, when appropriate.
• Identify inconsistencies between reported progress, schedule status, actual costs, and forecast performance.
• Translate project performance metrics into clear explanations and actionable insights.

Reporting and Analytics

• Prepare accurate and timely weekly and monthly project controls reports.
• Develop cost, schedule, progress, forecast, change, risk, and KPI reporting.
• Prepare clear variance narratives that explain performance drivers, potential impacts, and recommended actions.
• Maintain project performance databases, logs, workbooks, and reporting tools.
• Ensure project controls data is complete, consistent, traceable, and delivered on schedule.
• Support continuous improvement and automation of project controls reporting processes.
• Build or maintain Power BI reports and visuals when appropriate for project and portfolio reporting.

Risk and Change Management

• Identify emerging cost and schedule risks and communicate them to Project Managers and project leadership.
• Support qualitative and quantitative project risk analysis.
• Integrate identified risks and opportunities into project forecasts and schedules where appropriate.
• Maintain change logs and support the evaluation of potential cost and schedule impacts.
• Assist with the development of supporting information for project change orders.
• Maintain baseline integrity and appropriate change-control documentation.

Collaboration and Communication

• Work closely with Project Managers, engineering disciplines, procurement, finance, construction, contractors, and vendors.
• Coordinate project performance inputs and resolve routine data gaps or inconsistencies.
• Constructively question or challenge project inputs when the supporting information does not align with reported performance.
• Communicate project status, trends, risks, and forecast changes clearly to internal stakeholders.
• Participate in client-facing meetings when needed, particularly for project planning, progress review, forecasting, and change-order discussions.
• Support and, when appropriate, mentor less-experienced Project Controls team members.
• Document project controls assumptions, methodologies, decisions, and action items.

Required Qualifications

• Approximately four or more years of progressive project controls, cost controls, scheduling, or related project experience.
• Demonstrated experience working across both project cost management and project scheduling.
• Experience tracking project budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, and forecasts.
• Experience developing or maintaining CPM project schedules.
• Working knowledge of schedule logic, critical path, float, milestones, constraints, and progress updating.
• Understanding ETC/EAC forecasting, variance analysis, change management, progress measurement, and project risk.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to analyze project information and explain the drivers behind cost and schedule performance.
• Strong organizational, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across multiple disciplines and project stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently while recognizing when issues require escalation.
• Ability to work from Jedson’s Greenville office for a minimum of three days per week.
• Ability to travel approximately 10–20%, based on project and business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting industrial, manufacturing, engineering, EPC, EPCM, or major capital projects.
• Experience independently managing significant portions of the project control function.
• Experience developing integrated project schedules and performing critical path analysis.
• Experience developing project cost forecasts and explaining forecast changes.
• Experience with earned value management and physical progress measurement.
• Experience with Oracle Primavera Cloud or Primavera P6.
• Experience with Microsoft Project.
• Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint or a comparable project and financial management system.
• Experience building reports and visuals in Power BI.
• Working knowledge of Power Query and DAX.
• Experience developing KPI dashboards or executive-ready project performance reports.
• Experience supporting project change orders and cost or schedule impact analysis.
• Experience presenting project performance information to Project Managers, senior stakeholders, or clients.

Education A bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, finance, or related discipline is preferred. Relevant project controls experience and demonstrated cost and schedule capability may be considered in place of a degree. Level Placement The position is primarily intended to align with the Project Controls III level. A successful PC III candidate should demonstrate the ability to:

• Independently develop and maintain project schedules and cost forecasts.
• Perform critical path, variance, trend, and performance analysis.
• Validate physical progress and challenge unsupported project inputs.
• Develop clear reporting packages and performance narratives.
• Identify emerging cost and schedule risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Work directly with Project Managers and project teams with limited day-to-day oversight.
• Progress toward full project controls ownership for assigned projects.

Candidates may be considered at the Project Controls II level when they demonstrate strong foundational capability across both cost and schedule, steadily increasing independence, and readiness to develop into PC III-level project ownership. Location and Work Arrangement This position is based from Jedson’s Greenville, South Carolina office. Employees are expected to work in the office for a minimum of three days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week, based on business and project needs. Candidates should live within reasonable commuting distance of the Greenville office or be willing to relocate to the area. Relocation may be considered for the right candidate. Some travel to client offices, project sites, or other Jedson locations will be required. Anticipated travel is approximately 10–20%, depending on project assignments. The information above describes the primary responsibilities and qualifications of the position. It is not intended to represent an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or skills require