{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"8ef6ff66da0280138fdcd8f2","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8ef6ff66da0280138fdcd8f2","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8ef6ff66da0280138fdcd8f2","title":"Project Controls Estimating","description":"Principal Business Analyst – Project Controls Estimating\nAiken, South Carolina, USA\nCOMPA Industries is searching for qualified candidates for an onsite Principal Business Analyst – Project Controls Estimating position supporting the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility and NNSA Capital Projects mission at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina.\nPay: $110–$120 per hour\nLocation: Aiken, SC – Onsite\nSchedule: Monday–Thursday, 6:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.\nEstimated Hours: 2,080 straight-time hours and up to 600 overtime hours annually\nContract Duration: One year, with two optional one-year extensions\nProject Supported: Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility\nInterview Process: Microsoft Teams\nCitizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required\nSubmission Deadline: August 3, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time\nMandatory Experience Requirement – Read Before Applying\nCandidates must meet one of the following education and experience combinations:\nA master's degree in business, construction management, engineering, a technical discipline, or a related area and at least five years of practical experience.\nA bachelor's degree in business, construction management, engineering, a technical discipline, or a related area and at least seven years of practical experience.\nAn associate degree and at least 11 years of practical experience.\nA high school diploma and at least 15 years of relevant experience.\nCandidates must also demonstrate:\nA minimum of 10 years of experience in engineering, construction, operations, estimating, scheduling, project controls, proposal development, project management, or a combination of these areas.\nAt least five years of experience demonstrating knowledge of the applicable subject-matter area.\nExpert proficiency with automated accounting, cost-management, scheduling, and estimating systems.\nComprehensive knowledge of project management and tactical-level cost and schedule control.\nKnowledge of operations, maintenance, project startup, or construction.\nThe ability to review work for completeness against project specifications and scope definitions.\nStrong problem-solving, analytical, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.\nThe ability to work onsite at the Savannah River Site.\nApplicants who do not meet the required senior-level project-controls and estimating experience will not be considered.\nPosition Overview\nThe Principal Business Analyst – Project Controls Estimating will provide senior-level project-controls, estimating, scheduling, and financial-analysis support for complex NNSA capital projects at the Savannah River Site.\nThis position is responsible for the organization, development, implementation, maintenance, and accountability of project-control, financial-analysis, scheduling, and estimating applications used to manage cost, schedule, funding, forecasting, and financial performance throughout the lifecycle of highly complex or unique projects and programs.\nThe selected candidate will work under very limited supervision and serve as a key interface among project management, engineering, construction, procurement, scheduling, estimating, operations, maintenance, and financial organizations.\nThe position will support the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility and assist the NNSA Capital Projects mission through comprehensive evaluation of project scopes, cost estimating, scheduling, management planning, and development of procedures and processes that support integration with engineering and procurement functions.\nResponsibilities\nThe Principal Business Analyst will:\nOrganize, develop, implement, maintain, and manage project-control, financial-analysis, scheduling, and estimating systems.\nPrepare business and financial plans, forecasts, spend plans, and periodic or ad hoc management reports.\nDevelop and maintain cost and schedule baselines, milestone schedules, work breakdown structures, spend plans, and resource forecasts.\nEstablish effective utilization plans for equipment, labor, funding, facilities, and other project resources.\nApply advanced project-control concepts and provide technical leadership in the development of complex project-control applications.\nGuide project-controls personnel in multi-project integrated analysis, problem identification, and corrective-action development.\nParticipate in project cost reviews, schedule reviews, estimate reviews, and management meetings.\nDevelop and implement change-management processes for engineering and construction work.\nAnalyze cost and schedule performance against approved plans and baselines.\nIdentify the causes of cost and schedule variances and communicate recommended mitigation strategies to management.\nPerform variance analysis, statistical analysis, scenario analysis, trend analysis, and other financial evaluations.\nPrepare comprehensive monthly financial reports, forecasts, analyses, and spend plans.\nEvaluate funding limitations and recommend appropriate project cost controls.\nIdentify productivity, financial, and business-process issues.\nDevelop integrated financial controls and cost-effective processes that improve productivity.\nDevelop costing rates and explain rate structures during the budget process.\nMaintain applicable costing rates in PeopleSoft.\nAnalyze assigned overhead and service-pool variances.\nDefine requirements and develop models for complex business and financial systems.\nDevelop test plans and scenarios for system enhancements.\nOversee implementation of system improvements and monitor system effectiveness.\nInitiate and direct special studies addressing complex business and project-performance issues.\nTranslate senior-management concepts and strategic objectives into executable operating plans.\nAssemble, analyze, and interpret complex project, financial, estimating, and scheduling information.\nDevelop innovative solutions to complex project-control and business issues.\nProvide leadership, technical direction, training, and mentoring to project-controls personnel.\nApply applicable Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulation principles.\nReview work for completeness and compliance with project specifications and scope definitions.\nProvide guidance to management regarding classification requirements and compliance.\nProvide guidance regarding DOE critical-decision processes and required deliverable formats.\nReview and provide input to specifications for engineered equipment and subcontracts.\nReview and provide input regarding labor and other-than-labor resources required to execute project scope.\nProvide schedulers with input regarding sequence, duration, logic, dependencies, and resource requirements.\nProvide management with input regarding risk-informed schedules used to establish milestones and performance-based incentives.\nProvide engineering, estimating, and scheduling organizations with constructability, maintainability, operability, startup, and commissioning input.\nProvide input to technical writers preparing Bases of Estimate, Bases of Schedule, and work breakdown structure dictionaries.\nMaintain effective coordination among project management, engineering, procurement, estimating, scheduling, construction, and operations organizations.\nRequired Education and Experience\nCandidates must meet one of the following education and experience combinations:\nMaster's degree in business, construction management, engineering, a technical discipline, or a related area and at least five years of practical experience.\nBachelor's degree in business, construction management, engineering, a technical discipline, or a related area and at least seven years of practical experience.\nAssociate degree and at least 11 years of practical experience.\nHigh school diploma and at least 15 years of relevant experience.\nIn addition, candidates must demonstrate:\nA minimum of 10 years of experience in engineering, construction, operations, estimating, scheduling, project controls, proposal development, project management, or a combination of these disciplines.\nAt least five years of experience demonstrating knowledge of the applicable subject-matter area.\nExperience reviewing work for completeness against project specifications and scope definitions.\nExpert proficiency in automated accounting, cost-management, scheduling, and estimating systems.\nComprehensive knowledge of project management.\nComprehensive knowledge of tactical-level cost and schedule control.\nKnowledge of operations, maintenance, project startup, or construction.\nExperience developing cost estimates, schedules, forecasts, spend plans, and project-control documentation.\nExperience identifying cost and schedule variances and recommending corrective actions.\nStrong computer and data-analysis skills.\nStrong problem-solving and analytical capabilities.\nStrong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\nThe ability to work independently under very limited supervision.\nThe ability to communicate complex estimating, scheduling, financial, and project-control information to management.\nRequired Skills\nCandidates must have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of:\nProject management.\nProject controls.\nCost estimating.\nPlanning and scheduling.\nTactical-level cost and schedule control.\nCost and schedule baseline development.\nWork breakdown structure development.\nForecasting and spend-plan development.\nFinancial analysis.\nVariance analysis.\nChange management.\nResource planning.\nConstruction and project-startup interfaces.\nOperations and maintenance interfaces.\nAutomated accounting systems.\nAutomated cost-management systems.\nAutomated scheduling systems.\nAutomated estimating systems.\nProject specifications and scope-definition requirements.\nTechnical, organizational, and financial reporting.\nThe strongest candidates will also demonstrate the ability to:\nDevelop and maintain complex cost and schedule baselines.\nEvaluate project scopes and identify missing or incomplete requirements.\nDevelop labor, material, equipment, subcontract, and other-than-labor estimates.\nProvide schedulers with activity sequencing, duration, logic, and resource input.\nDevelop risk-informed schedules.\nPrepare and review Bases of Estimate and Bases of Schedule.\nAnalyze project performance and recommend corrective actions.\nCoordinate effectively with engineering, procurement, construction, operations, and project controls.\nPresent complex financial and project-control information to senior management.\nLead projects and technical activities with minimal direction.\nTrain and mentor project-controls personnel.\nReview work for completeness, quality, and compliance.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPreference will be given to candidates with:\nAn active DOE L or Q clearance held within the previous two years.\nWorking knowledge of Success Estimating software.\nExperience supporting DOE, NNSA, Department of Defense, nuclear, or other highly regulated capital projects.\nPrevious Savannah River Site experience.\nExperience supporting the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility.\nExperience with PeopleSoft or comparable enterprise financial systems.\nKnowledge of DOE critical-decision processes and deliverable requirements.\nExperience preparing Bases of Estimate, Bases of Schedule, and work breakdown structure dictionaries.\nExperience supporting Independent Cost Estimates or External Independent Reviews.\nExperience with risk-informed scheduling.\nExperience with constructability, maintainability, operability, startup, or commissioning reviews.\nExperience with Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulation principles.\nWork Schedule\nThe anticipated work schedule is Monday through Thursday from 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.\nThe standard workweek is generally 40 hours. Up to 600 overtime hours may be required annually to meet project schedules, estimating deadlines, reviews, milestones, and critical deliverables.\nOvertime will be used at management's discretion.\nThe position is onsite at the Savannah River Site. Candidates must be local to the Aiken, South Carolina area or willing to relocate at their own expense.\nContract Information\nThe initial contract term is one year, with the possibility of two additional one-year option periods.\nOption periods are not guaranteed and may be exercised solely at the discretion of the hiring manager.\nSecurity Requirements\nU.S. Citizenship is required.\nThe selected candidate must satisfy all applicable Savannah River Site security, badging, background-investigation, and site-access requirements.\nAn active DOE clearance is not initially required unless specified for the assignment.\nCandidates who have held an active DOE L or Q clearance within the previous two years are strongly preferred.\nFinal employment is subject to applicable security, badging, background-investigation, facility-clearance, and site-access requirements.\nWhy Work With COMPA Industries?\nCOMPA Industries has supported Department of Energy programs for decades by connecting highly qualified project-controls, estimating, engineering, construction, and technical professionals with mission-critical nuclear and national-security projects.\nOur employees contribute directly to complex capital projects while receiving competitive compensation, professional support, and the opportunity to work alongside experienced project-management, engineering, estimating, scheduling, and construction professionals throughout the DOE complex.\nThis position offers the opportunity to support one of the nation's most important Department of Energy capital-project missions.\nCOMPA Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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3, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time\nMandatory Experience Requirement – Read Before Applying\nCandidates must meet one of the following education and experience combinations:\nA master's degree in business, construction management, engineering, a technical discipline, or a related area and at least five years of practical experience.\nA bachelor's degree in business, construction management, engineering, a technical discipline, or a related area and at least seven years of practical experience.\nAn associate degree and at least 11 years of practical experience.\nA high school diploma and at least 15 years of relevant experience.\nCandidates must also demonstrate:\nA minimum of 10 years of experience in engineering, construction, operations, estimating, scheduling, project controls, proposal development, project management, or a combination of these areas.\nAt least five years of experience demonstrating knowledge of the applicable subject-matter area.\nExpert proficiency with automated accounting, cost-management, scheduling, and estimating systems.\nComprehensive knowledge of project management and tactical-level cost and schedule control.\nKnowledge of operations, maintenance, project startup, or construction.\nThe ability to review work for completeness against project specifications and scope definitions.\nStrong problem-solving, analytical, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.\nThe ability to work onsite at the Savannah River Site.\nApplicants who do not meet the required senior-level project-controls and estimating experience will not be considered.\nPosition Overview\nThe Principal Business Analyst – Project Controls Estimating will provide senior-level project-controls, estimating, scheduling, and financial-analysis support for complex NNSA capital projects at the Savannah River Site.\nThis position is responsible for the organization, development, implementation, maintenance, and accountability of project-control, financial-analysis, scheduling, and estimating applications used to manage cost, schedule, funding, forecasting, and financial performance throughout the lifecycle of highly complex or unique projects and programs.\nThe selected candidate will work under very limited supervision and serve as a key interface among project management, engineering, construction, procurement, scheduling, estimating, operations, maintenance, and financial organizations.\nThe position will support the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility and assist the NNSA Capital Projects mission through comprehensive evaluation of project scopes, cost estimating, scheduling, management planning, and development of procedures and processes that support integration with engineering and procurement functions.\nResponsibilities\nThe Principal Business Analyst will:\nOrganize, develop, implement, maintain, and manage project-control, financial-analysis, scheduling, and estimating systems.\nPrepare business and financial plans, forecasts, spend plans, and periodic or ad hoc management reports.\nDevelop and maintain cost and schedule baselines, milestone schedules, work breakdown structures, spend plans, and resource forecasts.\nEstablish effective utilization plans for equipment, labor, funding, facilities, and other project resources.\nApply advanced project-control concepts and provide technical leadership in the development of complex project-control applications.\nGuide project-controls personnel in multi-project integrated analysis, problem identification, and corrective-action development.\nParticipate in project cost reviews, schedule reviews, estimate reviews, and management meetings.\nDevelop and implement change-management processes for engineering and construction work.\nAnalyze cost and schedule performance against approved plans and baselines.\nIdentify the causes of cost and schedule variances and communicate recommended mitigation strategies to management.\nPerform variance analysis, statistical analysis, scenario analysis, trend analysis, and other financial evaluations.\nPrepare comprehensive monthly financial reports, forecasts, analyses, and spend plans.\nEvaluate funding limitations and recommend appropriate project cost controls.\nIdentify productivity, financial, and business-process issues.\nDevelop integrated financial controls and cost-effective processes that improve productivity.\nDevelop costing rates and explain rate structures during the budget process.\nMaintain applicable costing rates in PeopleSoft.\nAnalyze assigned overhead and service-pool variances.\nDefine requirements and develop models for complex business and financial systems.\nDevelop test plans and scenarios for system enhancements.\nOversee implementation of system improvements and monitor system effectiveness.\nInitiate and direct special studies addressing complex business and project-performance issues.\nTranslate senior-management concepts and strategic objectives into executable operating plans.\nAssemble, analyze, and interpret complex project, financial, estimating, and scheduling information.\nDevelop innovative solutions to complex project-control and business issues.\nProvide leadership, technical direction, training, and mentoring to project-controls personnel.\nApply applicable Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulation principles.\nReview work for completeness and compliance with project specifications and scope definitions.\nProvide guidance to management regarding classification requirements and compliance.\nProvide guidance regarding DOE critical-decision processes and required deliverable formats.\nReview and provide input to specifications for engineered equipment and subcontracts.\nReview and provide input regarding labor and other-than-labor resources required to execute project scope.\nProvide schedulers with input regarding sequence, duration, logic, dependencies, and resource requirements.\nProvide management with input regarding risk-informed schedules used to establish milestones and performance-based incentives.\nProvide engineering, estimating, and scheduling organizations with constructability, maintainability, operability, startup, and commissioning input.\nProvide input to technical writers preparing Bases of Estimate, Bases of Schedule, and work breakdown structure dictionaries.\nMaintain effective coordination among project management, engineering, procurement, estimating, scheduling, construction, and operations organizations.\nRequired Education and Experience\nCandidates must meet one of the following education and experience combinations:\nMaster's degree in business, construction management, engineering, a technical discipline, or a related area and at least five years of practical experience.\nBachelor's degree in business, construction management, engineering, a technical discipline, or a related area and at least seven years of practical experience.\nAssociate degree and at least 11 years of practical experience.\nHigh school diploma and at least 15 years of relevant experience.\nIn addition, candidates must demonstrate:\nA minimum of 10 years of experience in engineering, construction, operations, estimating, scheduling, project controls, proposal development, project management, or a combination of these disciplines.\nAt least five years of experience demonstrating knowledge of the applicable subject-matter area.\nExperience reviewing work for completeness against project specifications and scope definitions.\nExpert proficiency in automated accounting, cost-management, scheduling, and estimating systems.\nComprehensive knowledge of project management.\nComprehensive knowledge of tactical-level cost and schedule control.\nKnowledge of operations, maintenance, project startup, or construction.\nExperience developing cost estimates, schedules, forecasts, spend plans, and project-control documentation.\nExperience identifying cost and schedule variances and recommending corrective actions.\nStrong computer and data-analysis skills.\nStrong problem-solving and analytical capabilities.\nStrong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\nThe ability to work independently under very limited supervision.\nThe ability to communicate complex estimating, scheduling, financial, and project-control information to management.\nRequired Skills\nCandidates must have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of:\nProject management.\nProject controls.\nCost estimating.\nPlanning and scheduling.\nTactical-level cost and schedule control.\nCost and schedule baseline development.\nWork breakdown structure development.\nForecasting and spend-plan development.\nFinancial analysis.\nVariance analysis.\nChange management.\nResource planning.\nConstruction and project-startup interfaces.\nOperations and maintenance interfaces.\nAutomated accounting systems.\nAutomated cost-management systems.\nAutomated scheduling systems.\nAutomated estimating systems.\nProject specifications and scope-definition requirements.\nTechnical, organizational, and financial reporting.\nThe strongest candidates will also demonstrate the ability to:\nDevelop and maintain complex cost and schedule baselines.\nEvaluate project scopes and identify missing or incomplete requirements.\nDevelop labor, material, equipment, subcontract, and other-than-labor estimates.\nProvide schedulers with activity sequencing, duration, logic, and resource input.\nDevelop risk-informed schedules.\nPrepare and review Bases of Estimate and Bases of Schedule.\nAnalyze project performance and recommend corrective actions.\nCoordinate effectively with engineering, procurement, construction, operations, and project controls.\nPresent complex financial and project-control information to senior management.\nLead projects and technical activities with minimal direction.\nTrain and mentor project-controls personnel.\nReview work for completeness, quality, and compliance.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPreference will be given to candidates with:\nAn active DOE L or Q clearance held within the previous two years.\nWorking knowledge of Success Estimating software.\nExperience supporting DOE, NNSA, Department of Defense, nuclear, or other highly regulated capital projects.\nPrevious Savannah River Site experience.\nExperience supporting the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility.\nExperience with PeopleSoft or comparable enterprise financial systems.\nKnowledge of DOE critical-decision processes and deliverable requirements.\nExperience preparing Bases of Estimate, Bases of Schedule, and work breakdown structure dictionaries.\nExperience supporting Independent Cost Estimates or External Independent Reviews.\nExperience with risk-informed scheduling.\nExperience with constructability, maintainability, operability, startup, or commissioning reviews.\nExperience with Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulation principles.\nWork Schedule\nThe anticipated work schedule is Monday through Thursday from 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.\nThe standard workweek is generally 40 hours. Up to 600 overtime hours may be required annually to meet project schedules, estimating deadlines, reviews, milestones, and critical deliverables.\nOvertime will be used at management's discretion.\nThe position is onsite at the Savannah River Site. Candidates must be local to the Aiken, South Carolina area or willing to relocate at their own expense.\nContract Information\nThe initial contract term is one year, with the possibility of two additional one-year option periods.\nOption periods are not guaranteed and may be exercised solely at the discretion of the hiring manager.\nSecurity Requirements\nU.S. Citizenship is required.\nThe selected candidate must satisfy all applicable Savannah River Site security, badging, background-investigation, and site-access requirements.\nAn active DOE clearance is not initially required unless specified for the assignment.\nCandidates who have held an active DOE L or Q clearance within the previous two years are strongly preferred.\nFinal employment is subject to applicable security, badging, background-investigation, facility-clearance, and site-access requirements.\nWhy Work With COMPA Industries?\nCOMPA Industries has supported Department of Energy programs for decades by connecting highly qualified project-controls, estimating, engineering, construction, and technical professionals with mission-critical nuclear and national-security projects.\nOur employees contribute directly to complex capital projects while receiving competitive compensation, professional support, and the opportunity to work alongside experienced project-management, engineering, estimating, scheduling, and construction professionals throughout the DOE complex.\nThis position offers the opportunity to support one of the nation's most important Department of Energy capital-project missions.\nCOMPA Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected characteristic.\nNo third-party recruiting agencies or C2C submissions are needed for this position.\n#LI-ONSITE","datePosted":"2026-08-04T22:49:25.134Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T22:49:25.134Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Compaindustries","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Aiken","addressRegion":"SC","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"8ef6ff66da0280138fdcd8f2"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/8ef6ff66da0280138fdcd8f2"}}