Project Engineer- Project Controls

Job Description

Job Description

Great work starts with great people. At Flintco, you’ll find respect, stability, and opportunity to grow your career. Established in 1908, Flintco maintains offices in 8 major cities and employs more than 900 talented and humble professionals. Ranked among the largest and safest contractors in the nation, we deliver projects across a wide range of market sectors, including healthcare, education, hospitality, sports, mixed-use/residential, advanced industries, and renewable energy. With self-perform capabilities in concrete, steel fabrication and erection, site work, and other critical services, we bring a distinct in-house advantage to every project. Guided by the core principles of our Ethos — Safety, Quality, Honesty, Integrity, and Innovation — our culture is rooted in accountability, collaboration, and commitment to shared success. Beyond the jobsite, we invest in the communities we call home, strengthening the places where we live, work, and build.

The Project Engineer – Project Controls role is an early-career developmental role designed for an individual interested in building expertise in construction project controls within the utility-scale solar industry. Prior project controls or solar experience is not required. Through training, mentorship, project exposure, and progressively increasing responsibility, this position will develop skills in cost management, forecasting, progress measurement, production tracking, manpower analysis, and performance reporting.
Working closely with Project Managers, Construction Managers, Superintendents, Project Engineers, Preconstruction, Finance, and Operations leadership, this position will help collect, maintain, and analyze project information related to cost, production, labor, and overall performance.
The role provides an opportunity to develop an understanding of how accurate, forward-looking project data helps identify trends, manage risk, and support informed operational and financial decisions. As knowledge and proficiency grow, the individual will assume greater responsibility for project controls activities and reporting.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Learn and apply Flintco’s project controls processes, systems, reporting standards, and construction terminology.
• Assist project teams with cost tracking, forecasting, and Estimate at Completion (EAC) development.
• Track actual costs, committed costs, forecasted costs, and remaining costs against established project budgets.
• Help maintain the consistency, accuracy, and timeliness of project cost reporting.
• Support the development and maintenance of project progress, productivity, and production-tracking tools.
• Collect and organize project data used to measure performance against established project goals and expectations.
• Analyze project information, with guidance, to identify developing trends, potential risks, and areas requiring additional attention.
• Maintain historical project performance data to support future planning, estimating, and continuous improvement.
• Assist project and Operations leadership with staffing and manpower forecasting across one or more projects.
• Track pending and approved change orders and help document their effect on project budgets and forecasts.
• Assist in maintaining documentation supporting project cost impacts and change-order entitlement.
• Verify that approved changes are incorporated accurately into project budgets, forecasts, and reporting.
• Prepare and maintain reports that provide project and Operations leadership with visibility into cost, manpower, progress, productivity, risks, and opportunities.
• Support the development and maintenance of Power BI or similar project-reporting dashboards.
• Participate in project handoffs from Preconstruction to Operations and assist with establishing project controls processes after mobilization.
• Review estimate, production, labor, and cost assumptions with guidance from Project Controls, Preconstruction, and Operations leadership.
• Assist with developing projections based on actual project performance and emerging trends.
• Help develop historical benchmarks that improve future project planning, budgeting, and estimating.
• Maintain accurate cost and performance records throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support final cost analysis, project closeout reporting, and comparisons of final performance against original assumptions.
• Assist with documenting lessons learned related to project execution, productivity, manpower, and cost performance.
• Provide actual project performance information to Preconstruction and Estimating to help improve future project assumptions.
• Build effective working relationships with project, field, Finance, Preconstruction, and Operations team members.
• Participate in training, mentoring, and other development opportunities intended to build proficiency in project controls.
• Travel to project sites as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Interest in developing a career in construction project controls, project management, or construction operations.
• Foundational analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to organize, review, and interpret detailed financial and operational information.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Ability to communicate questions, observations, and findings clearly.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with project, field, Finance, Preconstruction, and Operations teams.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, with an interest in developing more advanced capabilities.
• Ability and willingness to learn Power BI, enterprise resource planning systems, and construction cost-management platforms.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet established deadlines.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn how construction projects are planned, measured, and financially managed.
• Ability to travel to project sites as required.
Core Competencies
• Action Oriented
• Being Resilient
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Ensures Accountability
• Instills Trust

Minimum Qualifications
• Zero to three years of professional, internship, co-op, or related project experience.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including the ability to organize and work with data.
• Ability to travel to project sites as required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• Internship, co-op, academic, or professional exposure to construction, engineering, renewable energy, project management, finance, accounting, scheduling, or data analytics.
• Exposure to utility-scale solar, renewable energy, EPC, or large-scale construction projects.
• Familiarity with project cost tracking, scheduling, forecasting, production measurement, or financial analysis.
• Experience with Power BI or another data-visualization and reporting platform.
• Experience with an ERP, project management, or construction cost-management system.
• Advanced coursework or experience using Microsoft Excel.

 

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Physical Requirements
• Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit and smell.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Occasionally, especially when managing multiple projects and during problematic opening and/or closing phases of projects, mental stress can be taxing.
• May be required to work long hours for extended periods of time.

Special Job Dimensions
The office provides a safe and healthy work environment, is adequately heated and cooled, is free from exposure and extreme conditions, has appropriate lighting and office furnishings, and is smoke-free and drug-free. While performing the duties of this

* NOTE – Where allowed, employees who work in positions classified as “safety-sensitive” can be disciplined if they test positive for marijuana or its metabolites, even if they have a valid state medical marijuana license. In addition, Flintco may also refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs who test positive for marijuana as part of a pre-employment drug test, even if those applicants can produce a valid medical marijuana patient license.