Technical Project Controller

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Tennessee.

📋 Description

• Assist in the development of technical bids, coordination of procurement, tracking of costs and schedules, and management of documents for steam turbine generation and mechanical-drive projects.

• Report directly to the Head Engineer of the Steam Turbine Group, while also having a dotted-line reporting relationship with assigned Project Managers.

• Facilitate the transition from sales to execution and oversee project kickoff activities.

• Create and manage budget and schedule tracking, deliverable registers, procurement plans, responsibilities, and contractual deadlines.

• Prepare and coordinate specifications, scopes of work, and bid packages across various disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and instrumentation and controls.

• Monitor bid dates, address bidder inquiries, provide clarifications, manage addenda, and conduct bid leveling.

• Analyze price, scope, technical exceptions, delivery, and commercial requirements, and document recommendations for awards.

• Oversee requisitions, purchase orders, supplier drawings, fabrication, inspections, shipments, and manage long-lead risks.

• Maintain approved budgets, commitments, actual costs, engineering hours, estimates, and forecasts.

• Update schedules, track dependencies and milestones, prepare look-ahead reports, and follow up on recovery actions.

• Keep revision-controlled documents, transmittals, submittals, RFIs, approval workflows, and project document statuses organized in Procore.

• Maintain logs for changes, risks, issues, and actions, and compile cost and schedule impacts.

• Create dashboards, record meeting notes, perform analyses, verify supplier invoices, prepare customer billing documentation, and forecast cash flow.

• Coordinate punch-list status, supplier documentation, as-built records, manuals, test reports, warranties, turnover packages, final cost reconciliation, and lessons learned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in industrial project cost tracking, document control, procurement, or engineering project coordination.

• Capability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and supplier proposals.

• Proficient in developing coordinated technical bid packages in collaboration with discipline engineers.

• Solid understanding of project budgets, purchase commitments, forecasts, schedules, and change tracking.

• Strong Excel and written communication skills are essential.

• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, identify scope gaps, and effectively liaise with suppliers and project teams.

• A Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a similar engineering discipline is preferred.

• Experience with steam turbines, rotating equipment, power generation, or multidisciplinary industrial construction projects is preferred.

• Familiarity with Procore, ERP purchasing and accounting systems, technical bid leveling, and supplier expediting is preferred.

• Knowledge of engineering and procurement workflows is beneficial.

• Understanding of multidisciplinary equipment and construction interfaces is a plus.

• Knowledge of bid evaluation, cost forecasting, scheduling, and document revision control is required.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly in Excel.

• Experience with Procore, scheduling software, and ERP reporting tools is advantageous.

• Ability to access designated work areas and utilize required PPE, with reasonable accommodations available as applicable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Up to 25% travel required.

• Reasonable accommodations available as applicable.

• Primarily office and computer-based work environment.

• Occasional visits to industrial sites.

• Periodic travel to customer sites, supplier facilities, and project meetings as necessary.

• Occasional additional hours may be required to meet bid deadlines, milestones, and commissioning.