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Project Controller Industrial Construction | Energy & Advanced Manufacturing Wichita, KS Area | Full-Time ($12K relocation Bonus) Build More Than Projects. Help Build the Project Controls Function. A growing industrial construction and engineering company is investing heavily in the way it plans, tracks, and delivers complex projects, and we're looking for Project Controllers who want to be part of building that next chapter. You'll join a newly developing Project Controls team and work alongside an experienced Senior Project Controller to create better visibility across cost, schedule, progress, change, risk, and project performance . You'll be close to the work, partnering directly with Project Managers, engineers, procurement, construction teams, and leadership on complex industrial projects from kickoff through closeout. For someone who wants to build a serious career in Project Controls, this is an opportunity to get exposure to the entire discipline instead of being boxed into one small piece of it. Help build the function. The company is actively investing in Project Controls. Get full-project exposure. You'll work across cost, schedule, forecasting, change management, risk, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Work on complex industrial projects. You'll support large-scale engineering and construction projects in growing energy and industrial markets. Project Managers and leadership will use your analysis to make real project decisions. This team is being built for the long term, creating an opportunity to grow into Senior Project Controls, Project Management, or broader project leadership positions as the organization expands. You'll help Project Managers understand where their projects actually stand financially and where they're headed. Track budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, and projected final costs. Analyze budget-to-actual variances and investigate what's driving them. Support cost-to-complete, cash flow, contingency, and margin analysis. Reconcile project costs across contracts, purchase orders, accounting systems, and project reports. Help Project Managers build more accurate forecasts before issues become surprises. You'll help turn the project schedule into an active management tool rather than something that gets updated once a month. Develop and maintain project schedules alongside Project Managers. Track engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, and closeout milestones. Monitor actual progress against project baselines. Support lookahead schedules and recovery plans. Validate percent complete and progress reporting with project teams. Project Performance Perform variance and trend analysis. Track project KPIs and performance indicators. Support earned value concepts including CPI and SPI where appropriate. Identify emerging cost or schedule risks. Help determine the root cause behind project variances. Work with Project Managers to turn performance issues into corrective actions. Change Management Your job is to make sure they don't become invisible project problems. Maintain project change logs. Help evaluate cost and schedule impacts. Maintain the documentation necessary to create a clear project audit trail. Risk & Opportunity You'll help teams see around corners. Maintain project risk and opportunity registers. Help identify cost, schedule, procurement, resource, and execution risks. Escalate emerging issues before they materially impact project performance. Reporting & Project Intelligence You'll turn project data into information people can actually use. Prepare weekly and monthly project controls reports. Develop dashboards and performance views. Clearly communicate forecasted outcomes, variances, schedule concerns, changes, and risks. Maintain accurate project data across approved systems. Help leadership understand not just what happened , but what is likely to happen next . We're less interested in finding someone with the perfect title and more interested in finding someone who understands how projects work and wants to become excellent at controlling them. Project Controller | Project Controls Analyst | Cost Controller | Cost Engineer | Scheduler | Project Engineer | Assistant Project Manager | Project Analyst You're comfortable asking Project Managers questions and challenging assumptions with data. You enjoy creating structure where processes aren't fully developed yet. You like being close enough to the project to understand what's actually happening. You want to learn from an experienced Project Controls leader and grow into greater responsibility. 3+ years of experience in project controls, project engineering, cost control, scheduling, construction, EPC, capital projects, industrial projects, manufacturing, or another project-based environment.

Experience with some combination of project budgets, forecasting, scheduling, progress measurement, variance analysis, change management, procurement tracking, risk, or project reporting.

Strong Excel skills and comfort working with project data.

Ability to communicate effectively with Project Managers, engineers, construction teams, procurement, finance, and leadership.

Experience with industrial construction, EPC, energy, renewable fuels, manufacturing, process facilities, or complex capital projects is especially valuable.

Experience with tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, or similar project controls systems is a plus. A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Finance, Operations, or a related field is preferred, but meaningful hands-on project experience matters. The Project Controls function is being built and strengthened now. That means you'll have the opportunity to join early, learn directly from senior leadership, help establish how projects are controlled, and grow alongside the function rather than waiting years for someone above you to leave. If you're currently touching pieces of Project Controls and thinking, "I want to learn the whole thing," this could be the opportunity you've been waiting for.