Project Controls Engineer

AECOM • Latham, NY

3h • $90,000 - $110,000 • Onsite

About The Position

AECOM is seeking a Project Controls Engineer III to support highway, bridge, and transportation construction projects in the Albany / Latham, NY area. This is an onsite role ideal for a project controls professional who enjoys being close to the work—partnering with construction teams, reviewing schedules in real time, and helping proactively manage risk and delays. This is an onsite position.
In this position, you will play a key role in reviewing and analyzing contractor CPM schedules, supporting delay mitigation strategies, and providing hands-on scheduling and project setup support using Oracle Primavera P6 and Unifier. You’ll collaborate closely with construction staff through site visits, schedule review meetings, and constructability assessments to ensure schedule integrity and informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
This role offers the opportunity to deepen your expertise in transportation construction, scheduling, and project controls while contributing to critical infrastructure projects—growing your career with a global leader in engineering and construction management.
This person will be responsible for but not limited to the following:
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.
Additional Job Information:
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

Requirements

• BA/BS in Engineering, Architecture or Construction Management + 4 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Valid U.S. Driver's License
• Exposure to basic scheduling and cost baseline fundamentals, concepts and principles

Nice To Haves

• Oracle Primavera P6 experience, highway bridge construction experience, excellent communication skills.
• Prefer Masters degree
• 1 year related transportation construction experience and/or P6 experience
• 1+ years construction inspection experience related to heavy highway and bridge construction projects and/or creating or reviewing construction schedules
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience with Oracle Primavera P6 software applications when used in an enterprise environment, and experience troubleshooting and resolving P6 software related issues
• Technical Skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6
• Experience cost loading and reviewing cost loaded construction schedules
• Experience with time impact analysis and various delay analysis methods
• 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.

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: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees