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Project Controls Engineer

$81.5k - $115.1k

WSP

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking a Project Controls Engineer to join our Project Controls team. This position can be based at our offices in either Los Angeles or San Francisco.

Your Impact

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Providing and/or overseeing critical path method scheduling (via Primavera) to support client’s Program including design and construction rail transit projects.

  • Review periodic CPM Updates, provide Primavera schedule comparison reports and detailed reviews.

  • Ability to perform data gathering, qualitative and quantitative analysis with independence

  • Coordination with project teams to assess reporting and identify potential delays and create accurate forecasts.

  • Interact with clients under general direction and attend client meetings

  • Assist in report writing, visual representations of data

  • Demonstrates commitment to keeping up-to-date in knowledge of current practices

  • Ability to learn and grow to produce high quality business support and professional deliverables on projects and proposals

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience.

  • 1-3 years of experience in developing and managing project Schedules.

  • Experienced with critical path method analysis/technique with Primavera.

  • Provide input and comments to department of project controls including review, validate and analyze contractors’ schedule for compliance including baseline and monthly updates. Elements including, completeness, logic, durations, activity, flow, milestone dates, concurrency, resource allotment and delays will be reviewed.

  • Verify the schedule conforms contract requirements and industry best practices. Provide written review of the schedule identifying significant omissions, improbable or unreasonable durations, errors in logic and any other schedule concerns.

  • Experience working with cross-functional teams.

  • Effective reporting and communication skills.

  • Experience in preparing project reports and documentation.

  • Team player and Strong communication skills

Compensation and Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

Expected Salary: $81,500- 115,100

WSP USA is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.

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