Senior Field Project Controls Engineer

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Job Summary:

The Senior Field Project Controls Engineer is responsible for integrating field planning, cost control, and productivity analysis to drive predictable, efficient, and cost-effective project execution.

This role operates at the interface between construction, planning, and cost engineering, working directly in the field with superintendents, discipline leads, and contractors to ensure:

• Work is properly sequenced and executable
• Productivity is measured, understood, and continuously improved
• Cost performance is tracked, forecasted, and aligned with execution reality

The position plays a critical role in turning schedule and budget into actionable field insights, enabling proactive decision-making and early intervention.

Major Responsibilities:

• Analyze short-interval plans (3-week / 90-day lookaheads) aligned with the master schedule
• Break down schedules into field-executable work packages and sequences
• Validate constructability, sequencing, and execution logic with field teams
• Support weekly planning, coordination, and workface planning sessions
• Support development and monitoring of field-installed quantities, labor costs, and installed units
• Prepare and maintain cost forecasts based on: Actual performance trendsProductivity ratesRemaining quantities and execution strategy
• Perform cost analysis using historical data and current performance trends
• Ensure alignment between field progress, earned value, and cost reporting
• Track and analyze craft productivity and installed quantities vs. plan
• Identify: Productivity gapsInefficiencies and constraintsOpportunities for improvement
• Develop and maintain productivity benchmarks using historical and project data
• Partner with construction to implement improvement actions
• Integrate schedule, cost, and field data to provide real-time performance insights
• Develop dashboards and analysis tools (Excel/Power BI) to support field decision-making
• Provide actionable recommendations to Project Controls and Construction leadership
• Support trend program and change analysis
• Work closely with: Superintendents and discipline leadsField engineers and Work Front Planning teamsProject Controls (planning, cost)
• Support client reporting and reviews where required
• Ensure alignment between field execution and project controls strategies

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline
• Typically 8–15+ years experience in: Field Planning/scheduling, Cost Engineering/Control, Productivity measurement and benchmarking

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong understanding of construction sequencing and field execution, Cost control and forecasting methods and productivity measurement and benchmarking
• Proficiency in Excel, Power BI, Power BI, Project Controls systems ( EcoSys, DSCS, Primavera P6)
• Ability to translate data into practical field actions
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

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