Project Controls Specialist

🕒 September 16

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

💵 $89.3k - $105k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Cushman & Wakefield

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1917

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏗️ Construction

Consulting • Healthcare • Construction

Cushman & Wakefield is a global leader in commercial real estate services, providing a wide range of services including agency leasing, asset services, capital markets, global occupier services, project and development services, tenant representation, and valuation and advisory for various industries such as logistics and industrial, multifamily, retail, life sciences, data centers, and healthcare. The company is committed to driving forward for clients, colleagues, and communities with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as environmental, social, and governance principles. Operating in over 60 countries with 52,000 professionals, Cushman & Wakefield consistently delivers insights and research, such as market reports and sustainability efforts.

📋 Description

• Manage and optimize project controls, data integrity, and governance processes for the business/account • Establish and maintain centralized project controls and data governance frameworks across the client’s global real estate and workplace portfolio • Develop and maintain controls structures that establish project delivery expectations and track and measure compliance • Oversee document control, auditing, QA/QC, and delivery assurance activities • Collaborate with client finance teams on cost reporting and uniform reporting requirements • Support project delivery, project management, and quality control for various project categories • Implement controls, compliance, training, and improvement initiatives • Develop and enforce governance models • Establish and maintain centralized data management systems for real estate and workplace projects • Ensure accuracy, transparency, integrity, governance, and compliance of project-related data • Implement data approval processes and audit trails • Partner with C&W IT, Client Technology and Data Governance Teams, and business units to integrate data platforms and adhere to client standards • Provide regular updates, project reporting, and performance dashboards to senior management • Leverage analytics and reporting tools to monitor project performance and identify improvement opportunities • Drive process innovation and best-practice sharing across the project management team • Support sustainability and operational excellence initiatives through data-led optimization • Participate in town halls and outreach programs • Create and maintain project playbooks, protocols, risk assessments, compliance reports, and performance dashboards • Act as a key integrator across client locations, facilitating collaboration between project management, IT, and business stakeholders • Support training and upskilling initiatives related to project controls and data governance

🎯 Requirements

• B.S. Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Business Administrations, Data/Analytics, or related field • Minimum of 3 years directly related experience in a project management governance or support role • Significant knowledge of project and change management methodologies, techniques, and processes • Proven experience working in a Program Management Office (PMO), overseeing internal and external delivery teams managing corporate upfit projects in occupied work environments • Applicable experience and success managing budget, cost, and profitability of a company or account • Strong proficiency with MS Office Suite (MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint) required • Experience with technology and business intelligence tools for project management and data governance • Experience with TRIRIGA a plus • Experience/competency with reporting platforms such as Power BI a plus • PMP or PMI-CP a plus • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Ability to influence without authority • Comfort promoting innovation and seeking ways to grow the business in a positive, trusted advisor capacity • Motivation to build relationships at executive levels with technology, solutions, customers, and vendor groups

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Vision insurance • Dental insurance • Flexible spending accounts • Health savings accounts • Retirement savings plans • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Paid time away from work • Unpaid time away from work • Competitive pay