Full-Time
Project Controls Specialist 1
Scheduling
Posted on 9/26/2025
Google Fiber
1,001-5,000 employees
Fiber-optic broadband internet service provider
Compensation Overview
$77k - $89k/yr
Mesa, AZ, USA
In Person
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- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in project controls, construction engineering, or a similar field.
- Experience extracting and entering data using spreadsheet software for data quality, reconciliation, and process improvements.
- Experience with scheduling and timelines to identify start to finish dates, floats, activity tracking, resource assignment and overall project scheduling.
- Experience with Primavera (P6) scheduling tool.
- Support the implementation of schedules identifying process inefficiencies, risks, and solutions.
- Aid cross-functional markets with detailed project scheduling and cost analysis as well as manage projects through analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Partner with Project Controls Manager to ensure satisfaction of project milestones and requirements while monitoring project execution to achieve maximum effectiveness.
- Develop monthly financial projections by analyzing build consumption and productivity data and coordinated/compiled inputs from team members and other reports.
- Experience in project management, finance and accounting processes and terminology.
- Experience with scheduling software and best practices (e.g., Microsoft Project, Asana, Smartsheet).
- Knowledge of Actual Cost of work performed.
- Knowledge of earned value of expended cost on a project, knowledge of project delivery, project close out, project reporting.
- Exposure to ISP networks and technical deployment.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams.
Google Fiber provides high-speed fiber-optic broadband for homes and small businesses. It uses fiber-to-the-home connections to offer symmetric upload and download speeds across several tiers, with no data caps, no equipment fees, and no annual contracts. It differentiates itself by its fast, equal-speed internet and by building or leveraging fiber networks rather than relying on traditional cable infrastructure, while shifting TV offerings to streaming partners. Its goal is to expand ultra-fast internet access and boost competition in the broadband market, supported by a planned merger with Astound Broadband to fund further expansion while Alphabet retains a minority stake.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
Founded
2010
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Stonepeak backing provides substantial capital for nationwide fiber expansion beyond current 19 states.
- Astound's regional dominance in Texas, California, New York strengthens combined entity's market position.
- Brandt's $20B Frontier-Verizon deal experience accelerates GFiber's growth and operational efficiency.
- Largest independent fiber provider status attracts enterprise customers and institutional investors.
What critics are saying
- Leadership transition from Dinni Jain to Brandt risks operational disruption and customer churn.
- Verizon's Frontier acquisition enables aggressive pricing competition in overlapping GFiber markets.
- FTC antitrust probe could block merger closure, forcing Alphabet asset divestiture by Q3 2026.
- Stonepeak ownership may prioritize returns over expansion, ceding growth to AT&T Fiber nationwide.
What makes Google Fiber unique
- Symmetrical gigabit speeds with no data caps or contracts differentiate GFiber from cable competitors.
- Merger with Astound creates largest independent fiber provider, leveraging Stonepeak capital for expansion.
- Experienced telecom executive Ettienne Brandt leads combined entity with Frontier transformation expertise.
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Benefits
Flexible Work Hours
Company News
Astound has appointed Ettienne Brandt as chief executive officer, effective immediately. Brandt will lead the company as it prepares for a planned combination with GFiber (formerly Google Fiber), announced on 11 March, which would create the largest independent fibre-based broadband provider in the United States. Brandt brings over 25 years of telecommunications experience. He most recently served as executive vice president, commercial at Frontier Communications, playing a key role in the company's transformation that led to its $20 billion sale to Verizon. He has previously worked for British Telecom, EE, Orange and Virgin Media. Astound provides internet, Wi-Fi, mobile, TV and fibre-optic solutions across multiple US states, including Texas, California and New York.
For the Pacific Northwest tech corridor, the deal is the latest chapter for a business born in Kirkland, Wash., as Wave Broadband. Founded by Steve Weed, Wave grew into a dominant regional challenger to traditional cable giants.