Project Controls Analyst I

AECOM • Latham, NY

4h • $50,000 - $70,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Start Your Career in Project Controls on Meaningful Transportation Projects.
AECOM is seeking a Project Controls Analyst I to support highway, bridge, and transportation construction projects in the Albany area. This is an onsite role designed for early-career professionals who are eager to build a strong foundation in project controls, scheduling, and construction management while working alongside experienced industry professionals.
In this role, you will gain hands-on exposure to CPM scheduling, project setup, schedule analysis, and construction coordination using Oracle Primavera P6 and Unifier. You’ll support construction teams through schedule reviews, site visits, progress meetings, and data analysis—developing practical skills in cost, schedule, and performance tracking across the project lifecycle.
This is an excellent opportunity to learn, grow, and develop your project controls career while contributing to critical transportation infrastructure projects with a global engineering and construction leader.

Requirements

• BA/BS in Engineering, Architecture or Construction Management + None or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Technical Skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6

Nice To Haves

• Oracle Primavera P6 experience
• Prefer AACE International certification as a Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) or Project Management Institute (PMI) as a Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze Contractor’s Critical Path Method (CPM) Progress Schedules on various transportation construction contracts.
• Provide recommendations to construction staff on the avoidance, minimization and mitigation of construction phase delays
• Review and analysis of Contractor’s requests for contract Time Extensions
• Conduct periodic construction project site visits to monitor project progress and assure progress schedule integrity, and participate in regular progress schedule meetings with construction team
• Provide construction management, scheduling and project set up services for all projects on enterprise P6 system.
• Develop or review Suggested Preliminary Construction Schedules during the final design stage based on the available plans, specifications and estimate provided by the project designer
• Conduct constructability reviews of the plans and specifications
• Assist in updating policies, procedures, specifications of guidance related to construction project management
• Administer enterprise databases for both Oracle Primavera P6 and Unifier are administered.
• Administering Oracle Primavera Business Intelligence application for various updates and reporting.
• Assist users of P6 enterprise system setting-up projects and assigning appropriate security to project folders.
• Introduced to the company financial and cornerstone systems and processes
• Introduced to financial terminology, measures, concepts and principles for analysis of financial data
• Exposed to processes that increase recognition of financial impact of various project actions
• Exposure to WBS concepts and principles
• Researches data for subsequent use in analyzing cost and schedule analysis
• Developing knowledge of accounting principles
• Developing ability to use drawings and specifications
• Exposed to progress/performance data and associated concepts and principles. Assists in the collection of progress data and review of performance trends
• Develops knowledge of earned value concepts, principles and methodology
• Collects data and produces an initial analysis on manpower, labor hour, and labor cost requirements versus budget limitations
• Collects data and produces an initial analysis for tracking actual cost to funding limitations
• Provides support for tracking purchase orders and subcontract commitments and expenditures
• Exposed to the concepts and principles of project revenue and cost
• Develops knowledge of scope control and change management
• Exposure to basic scheduling and cost baseline fundamentals, concepts and principles

Benefits

• AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees