Job Title: Project Controls Coordinator IV
Duration: 12 Months (Possible Extension)
Location: Houston, TX 77079
Hybrid Model: In-Office (Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday) Remote Work (Wednesday & Friday)

Travel: Minimal 1-2 times a year

Primary Focus:

• The Project Controls Coordinator IV works independently to monitor, control, and report on the performance and cost-related aspects of projects managed by the assigned project management teams. This includes ensuring that costs for assigned projects are identified, accounted for, and reported in an accurate and timely manner and in accordance with the company’s established business practices and procedures

 
Specific Accountabilities:
Provides cost control support to assigned project management teams by:

• Collecting information for project cost estimates, establishing control budgets, on-going monitoring and control of incurred project costs, cost forecasting, cost variance analysis and cost reporting to various stakeholders
• Provide capital cost control, variance analysis and reporting requirements for multiple complex and multi-disciplined programs / projects.
• Ensure that Client-sanctioned cost control processes are applied in the execution of their project activities.
• Interpret project-specific business requirements and ensure alignment with client’s project lifecycle gating control processes.
• Assign priorities to complex, multiple, competing projects by effectively prioritizing work activities. Establish and adjust priorities based on the department’s objectives and the company’s strategic plan.
• Work closely with the PMO and the Financial Services department and liaise with other project stakeholders for project related responsibilities.
• Widen and apply expertise by broadening alliances and working relationships with a broad cross-section of stakeholders, both within and beyond the Projects business unit. Communicate and work effectively with a varying set of these stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Prepare reports and presentations for and provide support to project management team members and stakeholders regarding the cost status of their respective project budgets.
• Track and report the Project’s performance against the plan by working closely with Project Scheduler.
• Review policies and procedures and recommend improved processes for project cost management.

 Scope:

• Impacts can extend to the multiple work units as well as to internal stakeholders (e.g., support departments) and external stakeholders (e.g., vendors and customers)
• Decision-making is guided by standardized practices, existing processes, and professional judgement.
• Assignments are often self-identified and are completed independently.
• Recommendations are reviewed for soundness of judgment but usually accepted as technically accurate.
• May provide guidance to junior employees.

 Contacts:

• Verbal and written communication typically consists of the collection and relay of complex technical facts and analysis of business implications.
• Required to communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical staff.

 Working Conditions:

• Office environment.
• Overnight business or construction field trips may be required.
• Expected to produce required reports and cost data in a timely manner.
• Occasional travel to field worksite locations. May require Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

 

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
 
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $59.37/hr.