Project Controls Specialist

Project Controls Specialist III

Chemelex is a global leader in electric thermal and sensing solutions, protecting the world's critical processes, places and people. With over 50 years of innovation and a commitment to excellence, we develop solutions that ensure safety, reliability, and efficiency in diverse environments – from industrial plants and data centers to people's homes. We deliver future-ready technologies, advanced engineering capabilities and local expertise backed by global standards. Our offering includes a leading portfolio from our trusted brands: Raychem, Tracer, Nuheat and Pyrotenax.

The Project Controls Specialist III provides advanced project controls support for complex, multimillion-dollar EPC projects. This role is responsible for financial forecasting, project performance analysis, and project P&L governance. The PC III partners closely with Project Managers and cross-functional teams to ensure accurate financial planning, reporting, and continuous improvement of project controls processes. This role will be based out of the Baton Rouge office with frequent presence at the Shell facility in Geismar, Louisiana.

Core Responsibilities:

• Process project setups, change orders, and project closeouts in SAP.
• Assist Project Management with entering change orders, preparing subcontract documents, and generating material requisitions.
• Provide day-to-day project execution support and reporting tools to Project Managers.
• Conduct estimate analyses and earned value reporting to develop and track project budgets and schedules.
• Monitor overall project health, including contract value, cost, margin, schedule, and change management.
• Apply Primavera P6, SAP, Excel, and database tools to plan, document, track, trend, and report on engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, testing, commissioning, and turnover activities.
• Prepare detailed CPM schedules to support task planning, resource management, progress tracking, daily labor input, and earned value analysis.
• Support Project and Construction Managers during progress review meetings and presentations with Owners or Owner's Representatives.
• Coordinate and communicate with Owners, Owner's Representatives, and other contractors to align expectations and project execution.

Advanced & Financial Responsibilities:

• Prepare, issue, collect, and analyze monthly project P&L forecasting data, including margin update impacts.
• Review, analyze, and update weekly and monthly project P&L plans to ensure accuracy, completeness, and appropriate risk and opportunity (RA) analysis.
• Work closely with Project Management to challenge, validate, and approve project P&L plan changes.
• Apply working knowledge of financial principles, including revenue recognition and margin impacts, to project forecasting and reporting.
• Provide project controls leadership for large, multimillion-dollar EPC projects.

Systems & Reporting:

• Perform advanced system data mining to support internal and external reporting requirements.
• Provide feedback on project actuals to cross-functional teams to support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Apply expert SAP PS knowledge, including logic formula writing, to support financial analysis and reporting.
• Utilize moderate VBA skills to enhance reporting, automation, and efficiency.

What You'll Bring:

• Minimum of 5 years in project planning, scheduling, and cost control. Maintenance, project, construction, and/or operations experience, preferred.
• Strong understanding of cost management (estimating, forecasting, margin analysis).
• Advanced knowledge of SAP and Excel

At Chemelex:

We protect places of progress through electric excellence. Pioneering plants, sprawling data centers, busy transport hubs, and your own home. These are the places that bring progress to the world, and the places that we protect with time-tested technologies, advanced engineering, and a suite of services. Because here, excellence is everything.

Our Dimensions of Excellence reflect the core values of Chemelex. Together, they inspire our decisions and guide our actions – defining excellence in our work for colleagues, customers and communities.

• Experts with empathy
• Explorer mindset
• Example for others
• Exceptional impact

We are committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, federal, state or local law.