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Project Control Specialist

  2025-07-31     Currie & Brown     Portland,OR  
Description:

DO YOU WANT TO HELP BUILD A BETTER FUTURE?


Joining Currie & Brown Can Offer the Opportunity To:


  • Support cutting edge projects such as the world's first green steel plant
  • Work on multi-billion dollar tech manufacturing projects helping to shape the world
  • Help global companies reduce their carbon footprint
  • Contribute to sustained company growth


What's in it for you?


  • Investment – as a global leader, who works with fortune 500 and blue-chip clients, working for the best means, we hire and develop the best talent possible.
  • Culture that celebrates your success and will support you along the way.
  • Success – achieve your goals through a company who prioritizes your training and development.
  • Insurance coverage from Day 1, 401k w/match, PTO, paid holidays, advancement & opportunities for growth and numerous other benefits!!


What skills and attributes are we looking for from you


  • Develop detailed large and complex project plans and work breakdown structures to support project activity scheduling.
  • Develop cost estimates.
  • Develop project summary reports, providing tables and graphs of project earned value.
  • Collaborate with corporate offices on cost, budget and procurement issues, determining positive resolution.
  • Monitor and identify deviations to plan and make recommendations to the Project Manager.
  • Create and maintain project schedules in the Primavera scheduling database.
  • Create and maintain SAP project structures.
  • Develop key performance indicators for critical department metrics.
  • Provide project controls support for multiple project teams.
  • Analyze SAP project cost data variances and determine necessary corrections.
  • Research and evaluate data and independently develop creative alternative to complex processes and situations.
  • Provide application of scheduling logic, constraints, lag/lead relationships, float management, etc. to apply critical path scheduling methodology.
  • Develop and analyze ad hoc reports.
  • Provide direction to Project Managers and key stakeholders regarding project milestones.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Project Management or a related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • A minimum of five years of project controls experience.
  • Primavera Scheduling experience.
  • Leadership and teamwork skills to negotiate with and influence on project issues.
  • Experience working with project life cycles.


Preferences:


  • Knowledge of the utility industry.
  • CPM certification.
  • SAP project experience.


Currie & Brown is one of the world's leading construction consultancy firms. We have a global team of project and cost management specialists and provide a wide range of construction consultancy services including program and project management, cost estimating, project controls, planning and scheduling services, and contract advisory.


We don't offer just a job, we offer a career with a clear structured route to progression.


APPLY TO HELP BUILD THE FUTURE OF TOMORROW TODAY!!


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