Lead Project Controls Specialist, EPC

The role

The Lead Project Controls Specialist serves as a project controls lead for EPC capital projects. This person will own the integrated cost and schedule baseline and performance reporting for engineering, procurement, and construction phases.

What you will do

• Lead the project controls function for assigned capital projects.
• Develop, structure, and maintain the project WBS, CBS, and OBS.
• Develop, baseline, and maintain the project KPI set.
• Own earned value management for the project.
• Govern the integrity of the WBS and coding structures.
• Direct cost control activities including budget development and forecasting.
• Build and maintain the project budget and produce variance analyses.
• Manage the change control process.
• Develop, integrate, and maintain cost-loaded and resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6.
• Produce and present weekly and monthly project performance reports and executive dashboards.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, business administration, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of project controls experience on construction, EPC, or large-scale industrial capital projects.
• Experience in a lead or senior role directing controls scope and personnel.
• Demonstrated ownership of cost control, budget tracking, and forecasting on projects of significant capital value.
• Hands-on expertise in earned value management.
• Proven experience developing project KPIs and building performance reports and dashboards.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Experience with cost management systems (e.g., EcoSys, Oracle, SAP) and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Advanced Excel skills for cost modeling, data analysis, and reconciliation of large data sets.
• Demonstrated experience structuring WBS, CBS, and OBS for large capital projects.
• Strong working knowledge of change management, trend programs, and contingency and risk management practices.
• Experience with quantitative schedule and cost risk analysis and what-if scenario modeling.

Nice to have

• AACE (CCP, EVP, PSP) or PMI (PMP, PMI-SP) certification
• Experience in battery, chemical processing, heavy manufacturing, or other complex industrial environments

About the company

Redwood Materials is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America. The company recovers, refines, and redeploys critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain.