Lead Project Controls Specialist, EPC

Location: McCarran, Nevada, United States

Company

hirify.global recycles lithium-ion batteries and redeploys critical minerals while developing large-scale second-life battery energy projects.

What you will do

• Lead project controls for EPC capital projects and establish standards, procedures, coding structures, and reporting cadences.
• Develop and maintain WBS, CBS, and OBS structures that align scope, schedules, estimates, commitments, actual costs, ERP codes, and contractor reporting.
• Own earned value management, including control accounts, work packages, progress measurement, rules of credit, and EAC/ETC forecasting.
• Direct budget development, cost tracking, accruals, cash-flow projections, variance analysis, change control, contingency management, and monthly forecasting.
• Develop cost- and resource-loaded Primavera P6 schedules, perform critical-path and schedule-health analysis, and integrate field and contractor progress data.
• Prepare executive dashboards, quantitative risk analyses, recovery scenarios, close-out analyses, and lessons-learned documentation while mentoring planners, schedulers, and cost analysts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, business administration, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• At least 8 years of project controls experience on construction, EPC, or large-scale industrial capital projects, including lead or senior-level responsibility.
• Hands-on expertise in earned value management, cost control, budget tracking, forecasting, KPI development, and performance reporting.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 and Excel, with experience using cost-management systems such as EcoSys, Oracle, or SAP and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience with WBS/CBS/OBS design, change management, contractor claims and invoices, risk analysis, baseline schedules, and change-order or delay-claim support.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain project cost and schedule performance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with compensation commensurate with experience.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Finance, Procurement, Engineering, Estimating, Construction Management, EPC contractors, and project leadership.
• Work on large-scale energy-transition and industrial capital projects.