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Planners who keep the schedule honest when scope keeps moving.
Project controls and scheduling talent who bring discipline to shifting timelines — so risk shows up in a status update, not a missed deadline.
What this covers
One role, the full controls function
Controls covers more than a Gantt chart. We staff across scheduling, cost, and reporting together.
Keeping the plan current
Talent who update the schedule as reality changes it, not once a month in a status meeting.
Budget discipline
People who track cost against plan and flag drift before it becomes a change order fight.
Visibility leadership trusts
Readouts that reflect where the project actually stands, not the best-case version.
Cross-trade discipline
Keeping submittals, RFIs, and look-aheads from becoming the reason work stalls.
Levels we place
From an extra pair of hands to someone who owns it
You tell us the seniority the work actually needs — we don't upsell a lead for a task list.
Project Controls Coordinator
Keeps schedules and trackers current and accurate.
Senior Scheduler
Owns the master schedule and flags risk before it becomes a problem.
Project Controls Manager
Runs controls across multiple projects and reports directly to leadership.
Why Built by Upstart
The difference isn't the rate card
Plenty of vendors can quote you a rate. The difference shows up in how the person actually works once they're on your team.
Full working-day overlap
Reviews, standups, and questions get answered live — not async, across a nine-hour gap, with an answer waiting for you tomorrow.
Trained to get more done with AI
Everyone we place runs an internal AI readiness track before day one, matched to your tools wherever we can.
Top 1% of who we screen
Backed by a 200+ person team and a #64 ranking on Forbes' Best Places to Work in the US — the bar doesn't loosen at scale.
How it works
From scoped role to a working teammate
Scope the role
What you need, the seniority, and how you'll measure it — one call.
We source and vet
A shortlist already cleared against our own bar.
You choose
You interview, you decide. No pressure.
They start on your clock
Full overlap, your tools, your standards, from day one.
Project Controls & Scheduling
Build your project controls team.
Tell us the scale of the projects you're running. We'll bring a shortlist that's already cleared our bar.
Your Extended Team, By Role
Nearshoring Works
Your tech stack? Covered
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