Project Controls Specialist

Project Controls Specialist

New York, NY, United States

Job description

Company and benefits

Job ID

45301

Date Posted

2026-10-21

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a major public transportation agency responsible for planning, operating, maintaining, and improving critical transportation infrastructure throughout the New York metropolitan region. To support its extensive capital program and ongoing infrastructure needs, MTA engages qualified professional engineering consulting firms, such as Arcadis, to provide specialized engineering, design, program and construction management, technical advisory, and related professional services.

MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) a public commuter rail agency within the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), has requested Arcadis to provide project controls services to supplement their existing teams, in support of their infrastructure projects. Successful candidates will be dedicated full time to working with MTA LIRR at their project office locations, Hillside NY, Jamaica NY and possibly other locations as required.

Role accountabilities:

• Project scheduling, schedule maintenance, schedule analysis, progress tracking, forecasting, and reporting.
• Project-level cost estimating, cost control, budget monitoring, and cost impact analysis.
• Development and maintenance of project controls trackers, databases, cost information, unit rates, and historical benchmarks.
• Resource planning, resource loading, run-rate analysis, and monitoring of planned versus actual labor and cost.
• Preparation and review of project status reports, dashboards, schedule extracts, cost reports, and management presentations.
• Support for scope changes, change requests, change orders, claims, and contractor proposals through schedule and cost analysis.
• Coordination with engineering, planning, scheduling, construction, procurement, and third-party stakeholders to validate project scope, assumptions, schedules, and costs.
• Support for project controls procedures, estimating practices, and continuous process improvements within the RPS Project Controls Group.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required:

• Five (5) to ten (10) years of experience in project controls, project scheduling, cost control, estimating, engineering, construction, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Technology, Construction Management, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience reviewing engineering drawings, contract specifications, BOQs, and other project documents.
• Experience developing or maintaining project schedules and/or project cost estimates.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Ability to analyze project information, identify issues and trends, prepare reports, and meet established deadlines.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to coor