Project Controls Specialist
Location: Project-Based (Wisconsin, Missouri, Wyoming, Texas, and future project locations)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Environment: Primarily Site-Based (Long-Term Project Assignments)
Drive Performance Behind World-Class Mission-Critical Projects
The successful delivery of hyperscale data centers and mission-critical infrastructure requires more than exceptional construction execution. It requires disciplined cost management, reliable forecasting, accurate reporting, and proactive performance monitoring.
Project Controls Specialists play a critical role in helping project teams understand project performance, identify emerging risks, improve forecasting accuracy, and maintain alignment with project budgets, schedules, and operational objectives.
As a Project Controls Specialist , you will support project-controls activities across some of North America's largest and most complex hyperscale data center developments. Your work will provide project teams with the visibility and performance insights necessary to make informed decisions and successfully execute major infrastructure programs.
About Michels Infrastructure Solutions
Michels Infrastructure Solutions (MIS) brings together the full capabilities of the Michels Family of Companies under a Super General Contractor (Super GC) model, providing mission-critical owners and developers with a single point of accountability for every phase of project execution.
By combining self-performed specialty design, construction, and commissioning services, MIS delivers large-scale, multidisciplinary projects with greater control over safety, quality, schedule, and cost.
MIS specializes in the delivery of hyperscale data centers and mission-critical facilities, leveraging expertise across mass grading and site development, wet and dry utilities, fiber and telecommunications infrastructure, ground improvement, deep foundations, structural concrete, power infrastructure, and commissioning. Our integrated delivery approach enables customers to partner with a single-source team capable of executing some of North America's most complex and demanding infrastructure projects.
Position Overview
As a Project Controls Specialist , you will support project-controls functions across large-scale hyperscale data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects.
During the early phases of project delivery, you will assist with project-controls activities supporting site development, utility construction, procurement planning, construction mobilization, and major earthwork operations. As projects advance, you will support cost tracking, forecasting, budgeting, schedule integration, progress measurement, reporting, change management, and project-performance analysis.
Working closely with Project Managers, Project Controls Managers, Construction Management, field leadership, accounting, procurement, scheduling, engineering, and executive stakeholders, you will help maintain visibility into project performance and support informed decision-making.
Success requires strong analytical capabilities, financial awareness, organizational discipline, communication skills, attention to detail, and a desire to continuously improve project performance.
Key Responsibilities
Support project-controls activities including forecasting, budgeting, cost tracking, reporting, progress measurement, and project-performance analysis.
Assist with maintaining project budgets, cost reports, cash-flow forecasts, earned-value metrics, and project dashboards.
Monitor project costs, commitments, labor productivity, equipment utilization, procurement activities, and production trends.
Support monthly forecasting cycles, performance reviews, and project-reporting processes.
Assist with identifying budget variances, schedule impacts, procurement risks, forecasting gaps, and performance trends.
Support development and maintenance of project-controls systems, tools, procedures, and reporting…