# Lead Project Controls Specialist, EPC at Redwood Materials

- Company: Redwood Materials
- What the company does: Redwood Materials is building the U.S. stockpile of critical materials and deploying large-scale energy storage systems that power data centers and the nation’s grid.
- Company website: https://www.redwoodmaterials.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: McCarran, NV
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/redwoodmaterials/jobs/6103560004?gh_jid=6103560004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/redwood-materials-lead-project-controls-specialist-epc/

## About the role

The Lead Project Controls Specialist serves as a project controls lead for Redwood’s EPC capital projects, owning the integrated cost and schedule baseline and the performance reporting that leadership relies on to make decisions. This role develops and tracks project KPIs, administers earned value management, and leads cost control, budget tracking, forecasting, and change management across engineering, procurement, and construction phases.

## What they're looking for

- Lead the project controls function for assigned capital projects, setting the standards, procedures, and reporting cadence used across cost, schedule, estimating, and change management
- Direct cost control activities, including budget development and allocation, commitment and expenditure tracking, accruals, cash flow projections, and monthly cost forecasts at the control account and project level
- Build and maintain the project budget, track actuals against budget, and produce variance analyses that explain cost and schedule deviations, quantify their impact, and identify corrective actions
- Develop, integrate, and maintain cost-loaded and resource-loaded schedules in Primavera P6, including critical path analysis, schedule health checks, and progress updates from field and contractor data
- Produce and present weekly and monthly project performance reports and executive dashboards, translating cost, schedule, and earned value data into clear findings and recommendations for project and senior leadership
- Perform quantitative risk analysis, including schedule and cost risk assessments, what-if and recovery scenario modeling, and contingency drawdown tracking

Tags: EPC