Technical Project Controller

Technical Project Controller

Job Description

Reports to: Head Engineer, Steam Turbine Group
Dotted-line reporting: Assigned Project Manager(s)

ProcessBarron is seeking a Technical Project Controller to support steam turbine generation and mechanical-drive projects through technical bid development, procurement coordination, cost and schedule tracking, and document management. This position works closely with engineering and project management to keep scope, commitments, approvals, and deliverables accurate and on schedule.

• Experience in industrial project cost tracking, document control, procurement, or engineering project coordination.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and supplier proposals and develop coordinated technical bid packages with discipline engineers.
• Working knowledge of project budgets, purchase commitments, forecasts, schedules, and change tracking; strong Excel and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage concurrent deadlines, identify scope gaps, and follow through with suppliers and project teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Experience with steam turbines, rotating equipment, power generation, or multidisciplinary industrial construction projects.
• Experience with Procore, ERP purchasing and accounting systems, technical bid leveling, and supplier expediting.

• Project setup. Support the sales-to-execution handoff and kickoff. Establish budget and schedule tracking, deliverable registers, procurement plans, responsibilities, and contractual deadlines with the project team.
• Technical bid development. Prepare and coordinate specifications, scopes of work, and bid packages for mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and instrumentation and controls disciplines. Incorporate engineering requirements, interfaces, exclusions, documentation, testing, and delivery milestones; obtain responsible engineer review and approval.
• Bid coordination and leveling. Track bid dates, bidder questions, clarifications, and addenda. Compare price, scope, technical exceptions, delivery, and commercial requirements; resolve gaps with engineering and purchasing and document recommendations for award.
• Procurement and expediting. Track requisitions, purchase orders, acknowledgments, supplier drawings, fabrication, inspections, and shipments. Follow up on purchased equipment and parts, flag long-lead risks, and coordinate overdue approvals, shortages, and supplier corrective actions.
• Job costs and forecasts. Maintain approved budgets, commitments, actual costs, engineering hours, remaining estimates, and forecast costs at completion. Reconcile with purchasing and accounting and flag variances, uncommitted scope, and expected costs not yet posted.
• Schedules and progress. Update schedules from verified engineering, supplier, and field inputs. Track critical dependencies, milestones, and upcoming decisions; prepare look-ahead reports and follow up on recovery actions with the Project Manager.
• Document control and Procore. Maintain revision-controlled documents, transmittals, submittals, RFIs, and approval workflows. Track review comments, due dates, and the next responsible party; apply project-defined IFR, IFA, IFB, and IFC statuses and identify superseded documents.
• Changes and risks. Maintain change, risk, issue, and action logs. Assemble cost and schedule impacts and supporting records; distinguish pending from approved changes and update project records after authorization.
• Reporting and payment support. Prepare project dashboards, meeting records, and requested analyses. Check supplier invoice support against commitments and milestones; assemble customer billing documentation and support cash-flow forecasts with accounting and the Project Manager.
• Closeout. Coordinate punch-list status, supplier documentation, as-built records, manuals, test reports, warranties, and turnover packages. Support final cost reconciliation and lessons learned.

• Engineering and procurement workflows, multidisciplinary equipment and construction interfaces, bid evaluation, cost forecasting, scheduling, and document revision control.
• Microsoft Office with strong Excel proficiency; Procore, scheduling software, and ERP reporting tools.

• Technical writing, analytical judgment, attention to detail, proactive follow-up, organization, and clear communication across engineering, suppliers, and project teams.

• Periodic travel to customer sites, supplier facilities, and project meetings as needed; occasional additional hours to support bid deadlines, milestones, and commissioning.

• Primarily office and computer-based work, with occasional industrial site visits. Ability to access designated work areas and wear required PPE, with reasonable accommodation as applicable.

• Own assigned tracking, coordination, and reporting. Responsible discipline engineers approve technical requirements; the Project Manager retains project execution and customer commitments. Spending, scope changes, and commercial approvals follow company authorization procedures.