Project Controls Specialist IV, Cost Analyst at MAAS Companies

The Work

BuildLACCD is the district's multi-billion-dollar bond construction program across nine colleges. As a Project Controls Specialist IV in the Program Management Office, you own the integrity of project budgets and forecasts across a portfolio of capital projects, so the numbers leadership relies on are accurate and defensible.

You sit at the center of cost. You run monthly Estimate at Completion reviews, take part in change management and risk workshops, and analyze variances. You work side by side with project managers, construction managers, and schedulers to catch overruns and trends early and to keep cost and schedule telling the same story.

Day to day you reconcile budgets against actuals, validate cost coding on change orders and amendments, manage Estimates to Complete, and build the reports and dashboards in e-Builder, Proliance, and DELTEK that the PMO and senior leadership use to make decisions.

Requirements

What You Will Own

· Budget and forecast integrity across a portfolio of capital projects

· Monthly EAC (Estimate at Completion) reviews, with variance analysis and justification

· Cost variance analysis, trend monitoring, and early warning on budget impacts

· Estimate to Complete (ETC) allocation and tracking for PBAs, change orders, and amendments

· Cost coding and budget validation on contract change orders and amendments

· Budget and actuals reconciliation, with corrective action on discrepancies

· Cost reports, dashboards, and asset tracking in e-Builder, Proliance, and DELTEK

What You Bring

· 7 to 10 years of project controls on a capital construction program

· A degree in business, engineering, project management, or construction management, or four additional years of qualifying experience in place of the degree

· Advanced Excel and financial modeling, and the ability to organize and interpret complex financial data

· A strong eye for detail and the judgment to spot trends and risks before they reach the budget

· The ability to explain financial concepts clearly to people who are not finance people

· A track record of working independently and meeting tight deadlines

Preferred

· Power BI and/or Tableau for real-time cost reports, dashboards, and visualizations

· Deep e-Builder, DELTEK, Proliance, and data warehousing experience on large programs

· Experience integrating multiple project and financial data sources into clean reports

· Cost control and budgeting on large-scale, multi-funded capital projects

Benefits

Compensation

Salary range: $151,000 to $166,000 per year, based on experience.

Benefits: health, dental, and vision at low cost; 401k; three weeks of PTO; and an ESOP (employee stock ownership) at no cost to you, with a 3% Safe Harbor contribution vested on day one.

Why MAAS

MAAS has spent nearly 40 years earning the trust of 50+ educational institutions across California, managing over $10B in projects. That track record means the work here is stable, funded, and consequential. You are not chasing the next contract.

As a MAAS employee, you are also an owner. The company is 100% employee-owned through an ESOP, a retirement benefit provided at no cost to you, on top of your salary. MAAS is a profitable, well-run organization and our share price has more than doubled since the plan's inception, with continued growth year over year. Your ownership stake builds the longer you stay, and ESOP participants nationally tend to accumulate 2.5x more in retirement savings than employees at non-ESOP companies.

In an industry not known for prioritizing culture, 96% of MAAS employees say it is a great place to work, and 100% say people genuinely care about each other.