Project Controller

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Job Title: Project Controller
Location: Kansas City, Kansas (On-site)
Durations: Long-Term
Experience Level: 7+ years

Job Description & Skill Requirement
Expert-level Microsoft Project experience is mandatory.
Familiarity with the Touchplan application.
Lead project management and project scheduling activities.
Develop and manage CPS schedules in Microsoft Project.
Understand project scope blocks and develop complex project schedules with minimal supervision.
Ensure accurate task durations, sequencing, relationships, and resource allocation.
Progress schedules from feasibility-level (50% confidence) to approximately 80% confidence.
Analyze schedule impacts related to scope, procurement, and execution changes.
Evaluate procurement delays, scope changes, OEM expediting, and split shipments.
Analyze multiple staffing and shift scenarios and their impact on project schedules.
Perform backward planning and pull planning for critical activities.
Prepare schedule summaries for leadership reviews.
Identify and recommend schedule acceleration opportunities.
Manage Level 2 project schedules with proper durations, sequencing, and resource assignments.
Provide technical expertise for equipment, unit operations, and process systems.
Collaborate with team leaders to build, evaluate, and optimize project schedules.
Review critical path, cost loading, schedule logic, relationships, lags, constraints, and milestones.
Facilitate weekly project schedule review meetings.
Provide schedule analysis, performance metrics, and risk updates to stakeholders.
Coordinate with project resources to track progress and communicate concerns to Project Managers.
Lead/assist comprehensive schedule submissions using the Project Success Method, including resource and cost loading.
Manage Equipment Status Memorandum (ESM) activities with design firms, equipment vendors, and stakeholders.
Monitor equipment delivery risks and communicate schedule impacts.

Qualification
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
7+ years of project scheduling experience.
Advanced Microsoft Project Mandatory.
Strong knowledge of Critical Path Methodology (CPM) and milestone management.
Knowledge of LEAN scheduling and Touchplan.
Understanding of procurement tracking, including ESM/ISM processes.
Strong project costing and cost optimization knowledge.
Excellent stakeholder coordination with engineering vendors, construction contractors, and project teams.
Strong teamwork, communication, and analytical skills.
Engineering degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation & Control Engineering (BE/B.Tech/BS/MS).

Priority 1 Must Have
7+ years of project scheduling
Microsoft Project Expert/Mandatory
CPM / Critical Path Methodology
Level 2 project scheduling
Schedule logic, sequencing, durations & resources
Critical path/milestone management
Procurement & equipment delivery tracking
Project costing & cost loading
Stakeholder/vendor/contractor coordination
Engineering/project environment

Priority 2 Preferred
Touchplan
LEAN scheduling / Pull Planning
SAP for reporting & spend management
ESM / ISM procurement tracking
Resource & cost-loaded schedules
Construction cost forecasting
P&ID / electrical drawing interpretation
E-Trending / issue logs
WBS management

Education & Experience:
BE/B.Tech/BS/MS Engineering
Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation & Control preferred
7+ years of project scheduling
Strong Microsoft Project expertise
Experience with complex engineering/manufacturing/construction projects
Strong stakeholder and vendor coordination