Highlights
Strong Microsoft Excel skills, financial analysis capabilities, and the ability to proactively identify project risks, follow up on outstanding items, and keep projects on schedule and within budget are essential. We are seeking an experienced Project Controls Coordinator to support project execution through project coordination, cost tracking, financial reporting, scheduling, and cross-functional communication.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Itasca, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $60,000–$72,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
Description
Title: Project Controls Coordinator
Location: Itasca, IL
Hire Type: Contract-to-Hire or Direct Hire
Compensation: $60,000 - $72,000
Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO
Must have Skill Set:
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in Project Coordination, Project Controls, Project Accounting, Manufacturing, Construction, or Operations.
- Must have experience with project cost tracking, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Must have advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis and financial tracking.
- Must have experience tracking project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and action items.
- Proven experience coordinating projects across multiple departments and managing competing priorities.
- Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Project Controls Coordinator to support project execution through project coordination, cost tracking, financial reporting, scheduling, and cross-functional communication. The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in project coordination, project controls, or project financial management. This individual must have proven experience tracking project costs, monitoring budgets, managing schedules, and coordinating deliverables across multiple departments. Strong Microsoft Excel skills, financial analysis capabilities, and the ability to proactively identify project risks, follow up on outstanding items, and keep projects on schedule and within budget are essential.
Job Duties:
- Coordinate project activities across Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Accounting.
- Track project budgets, committed costs, actual expenditures, forecasts, and financial performance.
- Support project cost controls, cost accruals, budget reconciliation, and month-end close activities.
- Monitor project schedules, milestones, and deliverables to ensure deadlines and customer commitments are met.
- Expedite outstanding action items and proactively identify and escalate project delays or risks.
- Coordinate with customers, suppliers, contractors, and internal stakeholders.
- Prepare project status reports, financial updates, and management reporting.
- Maintain accurate project schedules, financial records, action item logs, and project documentation.
- Support continuous improvement of project controls, reporting, and project management processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, Engineering, Accounting, Operations Management, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience in project coordination, project controls, project accounting, manufacturing, construction, or operations.
- Must have proven experience in project cost tracking, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Must have advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency.
- Experience with project scheduling, milestone tracking, and project documentation.
- Strong cross-functional coordination and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines.
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Power BI, or SharePoint preferred.
- Manufacturing, industrial, engineered-to-order, or construction experience.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.