Project Controls Associate - New College Graduate (2025 - 2026 Season | Charlotte, NC)
About The Position
M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence, specializing in designing, building, operating, and maintaining cyber-physical solutions for mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, their expertise spans electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration. The company fosters a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment, guided by core values of agility, expertise, and trust, and is dedicated to developing the next generation of technical leaders. The Project Controls Associate will support the project team by developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules. This role is crucial for ensuring project timelines are met, resources are effectively allocated, and project progress is accurately tracked and reported. Responsibilities will encompass various aspects of project scheduling, quality control, and coordination with different stakeholders, requiring a keen eye for detail, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to learn scheduling software.
Requirements
- 0+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree
- Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
- Sitting for extended periods of time.
- Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
- Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Identify and understand the speech of another person.
Nice To Haves
- Project Management Software (PM Online) – In-house Software.
- AS400 (internal)CMMS software
- Primavera P6 software
Responsibilities
- Executes the creation and updating of project schedules, ensuring all activities have appropriate predecessors and successors.
- Performs deconstruction of project scope into discrete activities complying with maximum allowed durations.
- Implements procurement, submittals, reviews, and material delivery timelines into the project schedule.
- Analyzes the accuracy of quantity take-offs and ensures all items are accounted for in the schedule.
- Resource loads the project schedule, forecasting material, equipment, and labor needs.
- Tracks project costs, schedule, and earned value to provide accurate project status updates.
- Inputs and updates pending and approved change orders in the schedule.
- Designs schedules frag nets to demonstrate the impact of submittals on change orders.
- Leads coordination of site surveys and supports the establishment of work areas as needed.
- Identifies constructability constraints and impacts, ensuring they are reflected in the schedule.
- Produces baseline vs. actual schedule reports and monthly schedule narratives.
- Maintains accurate and complete CPM network narratives, providing insights into project status and potential mitigation strategies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
