Engineering Project Controller
Position Type: Full-time, Exempt, Salary
Reports to: Design Project Manager Director
Supervisory Responsibility: None
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Company Summary
Stellar Energy is a trusted provider of turnkey liquid-to-chip cooling solutions for the world’s leading data center and industrial manufacturing customers. As computing demand and industrial processes continue to grow, modern facilities require cooling infrastructure that can scale quickly, efficiently, and reliably.
Our modular approach enables high-volume production while maintaining the flexibility to customize each solution. From Central Utility Plants to Coolant Distribution Units, Stellar Energy delivers scalable cooling infrastructure designed to support the rapid expansion of data centers and mission-critical industrial operations.
Backed by deep engineering expertise and large-scale manufacturing capability, Stellar Energy helps customers deploy critical infrastructure faster and with confidence.
Summary Objective
The Engineering Project Controller is responsible for developing, maintaining, and analyzing engineering project schedules, resource plans, and performance data across multiple concurrent modular fabrication projects. This position serves as a critical link between Engineering, Project Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Operations by transforming project requirements and engineering data into actionable schedules, forecasts, dashboards, and resource plans. Major responsibilities include improving visibility into engineering progress, resource capacity, schedule risk, and upcoming workload to support predictable project execution and on-time delivery.
Essential Functions
- Develops and maintains integrated engineering schedules for multiple concurrent projects from initial design through Issued for Construction (IFC) and fabrication support.
- Establishes and tracks engineering milestones including design development, client reviews, 30/60/90 design reviews, IFC releases, procurement deliverables, and fabrication support activities.
- Coordinates with Design Project Managers, Engineering Managers, and discipline leads to establish realistic activity durations, dependencies, resource requirements, and deliverable dates.
- Maintains alignment between engineering schedules and overall project, procurement, and manufacturing schedules.
- Identifies critical-path activities, schedule conflicts, late deliverables, and emerging risks; performs schedule variance and trend analysis and supports development of recovery plans.
- Develops short-term look-ahead schedules and reports to communicate upcoming engineering priorities, deliverables, and constraints.
- Develops and maintains engineering resource forecasts by project, discipline, position, and week.
- Compares forecasted workload against available engineering capacity to identify staffing shortages, surpluses, resource conflicts, and opportunities for workload leveling.
- Supports resource allocation across multiple simultaneous projects and provides forward-looking staffing and capacity forecasts to engineering leadership.
- Develops dashboards and reports that provide visibility into engineering schedule performance, workload, capacity, project health, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Tracks and analyzes milestone performance, schedule variance, engineering manhours, resource utilization, forecast accuracy, and deliverable status.
- Analyzes historical project data, including planned versus actual engineering performance, to improve future schedules, estimates, and resource plans.
- Consolidates information from engineering, project management, ERP, scheduling, and other business systems into reliable reporting datasets.
- Develops automated or semi-automated reporting processes to reduce manual data collection and improve reporting consistency and data quality.
- Establishes and maintains standardized engineering scheduling, forecasting, resource planning, and reporting methodologies across projects and product lines.
- Works with engineering leadership to establish standard durations and labor-hour expectations for recurring engineering activities and modular product designs.
- Collaborates with Engineering, Project Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Operations to evaluate downstream impacts of engineering changes or delays.
- Facilitates regular schedule and resource reviews with engineering leadership and communicates risks, constraints, and required actions to appropriate stakeholders.
- Tracks engineering deliverables and BOM release timing to support alignment with procurement and fabrication requirements.
- Participates in continuous improvement initiatives, ISO 9001 activities, and other audits as required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Competencies
- Project scheduling and project controls.
- Data analysis and visualization.
- Problem solving/analysis.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Cross-functional collaboration and interpersonal skills.
- Resource planning and forecasting.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position will not have direct supervisory responsibilities.
Work Location
This position will work out of our facilities in Jacksonville, FL. This position is approved for telecommuting and working remotely, with manager approval.
Work Environment
Most work is performed in an office environment. Regular trips to SEA Fabrication Shop for observation and research are required.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee frequently is required to walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand. The employee must frequently lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Travel
Anticipated up to 10% travel for this position. Some occasional local day travel may also be necessary.
Required Education and Experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Data Analytics, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in engineering project controls, scheduling, project management, resource planning, data analytics, or a similar engineering/manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of project scheduling principles, dependencies, critical paths, resource loading, schedule forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data modeling, and analysis of large datasets.
- Experience developing dashboards, management-level reporting, and actionable performance metrics.
- Experience with scheduling platforms such as Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Master’s degree in engineering, business, analytics, project management, or a related field from an accredited University.
- Experience within modular construction, modular equipment fabrication, EPC, industrial manufacturing, data centers, energy infrastructure, or similar engineer-to-order environments.
- Experience with Power BI, Power Query, SQL, Python, or similar analytics and automation tools.
- Experience with ERP, PLM, document-control, and project-management systems.
- Experience developing resource-loaded engineering schedules and capacity models.
- PMP, PMI-SP, AACE, or similar professional certification is preferred.
Work Authorization
Must be authorized to work in the USA.
Benefits SummaryWe offer a competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plan options; preventive care covered at 100% in-network)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contributions
- 401(k) with company match (100% match up to 3% + 50% match up to 6%)
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D coverage
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage options
- Supplemental benefits including accident, critical illness, and hospital coverage
- Wellness programs, including incentives up to $300 annually and a no-cost weight management program
- Virtual healthcare options, including $0 virtual visits in many cases
- Additional voluntary benefits including legal services and pet insurance
- Competitive PTO plan for exempt and non-exempt employees
Stellar Energy Americas Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Stellar Energy Americas Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
