Project Controls Specialist (cost focus)
The opportunity
We are seeking a Project Controls Specialist with strong expertise in cost management, forecasting, and cash flow control to join our dynamic and collaborative project delivery team. In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring our projects remain financially healthy, commercially sound, and aligned with client expectations.
You will work alongside experienced project and cost management professionals, contributing to major programmes across innovative and fast‑growing sectors. This is an opportunity to expand your capabilities, take ownership, and influence how we deliver world‑class cost governance for our clients
In this role you will:
- Lead cost control activities including project cost tracking, budget development, cost reconciliation, and variance analysis.
- Manage project cash flow, ensuring accurate forecasting, timely reporting, and early identification of potential risks or deviations.
- Evaluate and continuously improve cost‑related data management processes, tools, and reporting systems.
- Develop and present monthly executive cost reports, cost dashboards, and financial risk summaries for key stakeholders.
- Review and assess contractor and engineer bids, pricing proposals, change notices, and cost submissions to ensure best value.
- Support the preparation of Work Breakdown Structures and cost coding structures to improve financial transparency.
- Collaborate with procurement and commercial teams on cost negotiations and contract pricing alignment.
- Contribute to schedule‑cost integration to improve project performance insights and forecasting accuracy.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have demonstrated experience implementing cost & schedule management work processes
- Have a comprehensive understanding of Work Breakdown Structure and project Coding structures
- Have experience with program reporting - decks, dashboards,and excel
- Have successfully performed project controls roles including cost control, scheduling and estimating
- Have a degree or comparable experience in a construction related discipline
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
The salary range for this role is between $84,000 and $112,000 but actual salary offered is dependent on experience, skill set and education.
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Project Controls
Integrated and reliable construction planning, scheduling and project controls expertise are specialized management skills that support the effective use of funds, and provides a project execution roadmap of meaningful progress and realistic forecasts against a baseline. Our expert teams offer critical insights to our clients, to ensure predictability of outcome, timely and informed decision-making, and that the correct processes, tools and reporting are implemented effectively. We have a range of exciting opportunities around the world for professionals in these areas, to further develop their skillset and expertise, and to elevate their career to the next level.
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