About the Role
The Solar Project Controls position supports cost management, forecasting, progress measurement, production tracking, manpower analysis, and performance reporting for utility-scale solar projects. This role provides accurate and timely information on project cost, production, labor, and overall performance to project teams, enabling informed operational and financial decisions.
Responsibilities
- Support project teams with cost tracking, forecasting, and Estimate at Completion (EAC) development.
- Track actual costs, committed costs, forecasted costs, and remaining costs against the project budget.
- Maintain consistency and accuracy in project cost reporting.
- Support the development and maintenance of project progress and production tracking.
- Monitor overall project performance against established project goals and expectations.
- Analyze project data to identify trends, risks, and areas requiring additional attention.
- Maintain historical project performance data to support future planning and continuous improvement.
- Work with project and Operations leadership to evaluate staffing requirements.
- Support Operations with manpower forecasting across multiple projects.
- Track pending and approved change orders and their impact on the project forecast.
- Maintain documentation supporting project cost impacts and entitlement.
- Ensure approved changes are properly incorporated into project budgets and forecasts.
- Provide project and Operations leadership with visibility into overall project performance, cost, manpower, progress, risks, and opportunities.
- Maintain accurate data for executive-level project reporting.
- Support development and maintenance of Power BI or similar reporting dashboards.
- Participate in project handoff from Preconstruction to Operations.
- Establish Project Controls processes before mobilization.
- Review estimate assumptions, production assumptions, labor assumptions, and overall cost structure.
- Analyze project performance and identify trends that may impact final project profitability.
- Develop projections using actual project performance.
- Develop historical benchmarks to improve future project planning and estimating.
- Maintain accurate cost and performance records through project completion.
- Support final project cost analysis and closeout reporting.
- Compare final project performance against original assumptions.
- Document key lessons learned related to project execution, productivity, manpower, and cost performance.
- Provide actual project performance data back to Preconstruction and Estimating to improve future project assumptions.
- Ability to travel to project sites as required.
- May manage direct reports.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of construction cost controls and forecasting.
- Understanding of construction operations and project performance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Ability to analyze project data and communicate findings clearly.
- Ability to work directly with project and field leadership.
- Ability to travel to project sites as required.
- Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
- The employee is occasionally required to sit and smell.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- Occasionally, especially when managing multiple projects and during problematic opening and/or closing phases of projects, mental stress can be taxing.
- May be required to work long hours for extended periods of time.
Skills
- Cost tracking
- Forecasting
- Estimate at Completion (EAC) development
- Progress and production tracking
- Manpower analysis
- Performance reporting
- Cost management
- Microsoft Excel
- Power BI or similar reporting platforms
- ERP or construction cost-management systems
Location
- Project sites
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experience supporting utility-scale solar, renewable energy, EPC, or large-scale construction projects preferred.
- Experience with Power BI or similar reporting platforms preferred.
- Experience working with ERP or construction cost-management systems preferred.
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the Company
- Established in 1908, Flintco maintains offices in 8 major cities and employs more than 900 talented and humble professionals.
- Ranked among the largest and safest contractors in the nation, we deliver projects across a wide range of market sectors, including healthcare, education, hospitality, sports, mixed-use/residential, advanced industries, and renewable energy.
- With self-perform capabilities in concrete, steel fabrication and erection, site work, and other critical services, we bring a distinct in-house advantage to every project.
- Guided by the core principles of our Ethos — Safety, Quality, Honesty, Integrity, and Innovation — our culture is rooted in accountability, collaboration, and commitment to shared success.
- Beyond the jobsite, we invest in the communities we call home, strengthening the places where we live, work, and build.
- The office provides a safe and healthy work environment, is adequately heated and cooled, is free from exposure and extreme conditions, has appropriate lighting and office furnishings, and is smoke-free and drug-free.
Equal Opportunity
- NOTE – Where allowed, employees who work in positions classified as “safety-sensitive” can be disciplined if they test positive for marijuana or its metabolites, even if they have a valid state medical marijuana license.
- In addition, Flintco may also refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs who test positive for marijuana as part of a pre-employment drug test, even if those applicants can produce a valid medical marijuana patient license.
