Project Controls Specialist

ReqID: HOU
0000E4

** Joining Arup*
* Arup's purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Our Houston office is seeking a Project Controls Specialist with experience in Project Management.  The hired candidate will join a multidisciplinary team of engineers.

** Responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to:*
* -    Assist the Project Control Manager and Project Manager in the implementation of project-specific cost control processes to ensure project profitability and other commercial goals are met

-    Assist in budget estimation, forecast and resource planning, contract review and assessment.

-    Use the financial system to review, monitor, and analyze financial performance, project costs, and other performance parameters.

-    Track actuals against budgets, conduct variance analyses, carry out reporting of project financials and respond to queries from project teams

-    Assist in preparing and updating project schedules

-    Lead the updating of project forecasts and collaborate closely with Project Managers, Directors, and Finance on a regular basis to ensure current and accurate reporting of project performance

-    Assist in monitoring and handling scope changes; maintaining change and risk registers, issuing fee proposals; manage contract change orders

-    Coordinate and/or support monthly payment request process inclusive of invoicing, contract compliance, and monitoring accounts receivable

-    Sub-consultant management including preparation of sub-consultant agreements, tracking costs, and reviewing invoices and payments

-    Collaborate with the design team to track and compile engineering progress information to assist EV analysis

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective - in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share, and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

** Qualified professionals will have:*
* -    Associate's degree in an engineering , construction management or financial discipline

-    Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience; prior experience in Architecture/ Engineering/ Construction industries preferred

-    Knowledge of project management and experience in contractual matters

-    Must have experience in the areas of budgeting, financial reporting, cost tracking

-    Advanced knowledge of Excel, data manipulation and spreadsheet design to communicate results is strongly preferred

-    Strong desire to work with project commercial type data

-    Experience in Microsoft Power Platform (e.g. Power

BI, Power Automate) and/or other digital skills is preferred

-    Ability to prioritize and manage workload effectively

-    Strong interpersonal and communication skills crucial for team-based working

-    Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and completeness of work product

** What we offer you*
* At Arup, we care about each member's success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognizes the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive - through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup's legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share the results of our collective efforts.

Benefits at Work - At Arup, we have a comprehensive and valuable benefits program that works for our employees and their families while keeping costs low.…