Principal Project Controls
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Country: United States
Category: Project Controls
Workplace Location: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: April 22, 2026
Job ID: 646761
Job Description
Job Title: Princiapl Project Controls
Location: Charlotte, NC 28202
Contract length: 12-month Contract
Pay: $72/hr - $77.42/hr
Principal Project Controls Qualifications
Required
- Demonstrated scheduling experience on nuclear projects or similarly regulated environments
- Proficiency with scheduling tools such as Primavera P6 (or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of nuclear construction/ execution sequencing, outage planning, or complex construction schedules
- Experience supporting EPC or EPCM project schedules
- Ability to analyze schedule drivers, risks, and mitigation strategies
- Familiarity with tools such Acumen, Alice technologies will be a plus
- Must have experience with Nuclear projects (worked in nuclear facilities/nuclear construction)
- Specific experience on AP1000 projects
- Graduation from a four-year college or university - business, finance, project management, engineering, technical, or equivalent
- Minimum of 7 years of project controls scheduling experience using primavera (P6)
- Minimum of 11 years of project controls scheduling experience using primavera (P6) in lieu of a degree
- Expert in project controls principles
- Expertise / Mastery with project management / project controls concepts / computer applications / analytics
- Employee development
- Strong collaborative team member; oversight
- Familiarity with NRC or DOE project environments
- Experience working on safety-critical or highly regulated projects
- Strong communication skills and ability to support schedule reviews
- Masters - business, finance, project management, or equivalent
- PMI or AACE certification (the following or equivalent are acceptable - PMP, CAPM, PMI-SP, AACE-CCC, AACE-PSP, AACE-CEP, AACE-EVP)
- Demonstrated proficiency using Software such as MS Office Suite, Primavera, Business Objects, Prolog, Passport, Visio, Powerplant, Maximo, PeopleSoft
- Risk management tools
- Develop, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules for nuclear-related projects
- Perform critical path analysis, schedule risk analysis, and progress measurement
- Support baseline development, change impacts, and schedule forecasting
- Interface with project controls, engineering, procurement, and construction teams to ensure schedule alignment
- Support schedule reviews and reporting for project and management stakeholders
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