Technical Specialist

Technical Specialist Fresno, CA - Mostly Remote 12 Months

Pay: $50.77 per hour

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY within Service Territory. Once the successful candidate is selected, HM has flexibility to change their headquarters and location to the nearest client office. The role is hybrid with 2-4 a month which encompasses working from office, team meetings, and possible project walkdowns.

RE: TRAVEL: Once or two amount of travel for team meetings, and possible project walkdowns.

TOP THINGS: Scheduling, updating in P6, knows how to validate data, knows how to look at schedules from external sources and validate

EQUIPMENT: 1) Personal cellphone or vendor provided. 2)Client will provide a laptop. In case of major delays in laptop, the vendor must provide a device to start the assignment until a client laptop is ready. 3) The External monitors must be provided by the vendor. Any other home office tools must be provided by the vendor

May expense for work related travel and training WITH PRIOR Client MANAGER approval

RE: PPE: Clothing and shoes MUST BE PROVIDED BY THE VENDOR. Suppliers must be prepared to provide hardhat, vest, goggles if needed.

The position will function as a Real Estate Technical Specialist (RETS) supporting project financial controls, governance, and reporting.

Financial and Project Controls Responsibilities

• Provide budget and forecast oversight to support alignment between approved funding, current forecasts, commitments, and actual costs.
• Create, maintain, and update project records in FRISBE.
• Manage SAP Planning Orders and Specific Orders, including applicable order attributes and settlement rules.
• Support the Project Stage Gate Authorization and Project Financial Authorization processes.
• Perform QA/QC reviews of job estimates, authorization packages, financial records, and supporting documentation.
• Populate and reconcile actual cost data within applicable forecasting and reporting tools.
• Identify budget, forecast, commitment, and actual-cost variances and coordinate follow-up with the appropriate project stakeholders.

Governance and Compliance Responsibilities

• Support compliance with established Project Management procedures and financial governance requirements.
• Assist with Project and Program Authorization, Cost Management, Schedule Management, Actual and Payment Application, and Integrated Change Control processes.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, records, approvals, and change-control logs.
• Monitor assigned projects for data quality, process compliance, and completion of required monthly activities.

Reporting Responsibilities

• Monitor, track, analyze, and report project budget, forecast, commitment, accrual, and actual-cost information.
• Administer the monthly project accrual process through Smartsheet and support the posting of Goods Receipt in Progress entries.
• Prepare Portfolio Executive Reports, spend reports, purchase-order commitment reports, and other recurring project-control reports.
• Perform QA/QC reviews of CapEx report updates.
• Complete monthly Data Quality Assurance activities to help ensure project reporting is accurate, complete, and submitted on time.
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Planners, Project Controls, Finance, and other stakeholders to resolve reporting or data discrepancies.

In addition to the minimum Technical Specialist qualifications, preferred experience would include project controls, financial reporting, forecasting, cost management, SAP, FRISBE, Smartsheet, Microsoft Excel, and working within established project-governance processes.