Project Controls Specialist

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Project Controls Specialist, you will be responsible for the scheduling, project cost, and reporting across a portfolio of Engineering Projects. Ensuring the successful planning, execution, and monitoring of projects schedules, actual cost, and cost forecasting. Support long term manpower planning. Implement project control processes and procedures to assure consistency across projects and teams. Monitor schedule and cost across the company to assure teams meet process and procedural requirements. You'll be responsible for creating and maintaining resource-loaded schedules, managing risks, and supporting project managers through effective project controls. Your expertise in Primavera P6 software will be essential to delivering engineering projects on time and within scope. Direct interface with Project Managers, lead project engineering and design teams. Develop and strengthen relationships with client Project Controls Personnel.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

P lanning

• Meet with the proposal manager and ensure full understanding of stakeholder expectations, scope of work, deliverables and develop a schedule to support the required proposal requirements.
• Meet with the project manager and ensure full understanding of stakeholder expectations, scope of work, deliverables and develop a schedule to support the project requirements.
• Ensure engineering design-leads develop execution plans and update the project controls systems. Validates execution plans.
• Train and Develop Project Controls staff to accomplish project controls requirements.

Executing

• Review and Update Schedule, Budget, and Forecast
• Monitor and control change
• Ensure execution plans are updated when approval of change in scope, schedule, quality, or deliverables is received
• Track Project Progress and issue updated schedule to Project Manager Bi-weekly highlighting issues and schedule slips.
• Maintain the appropriate level of communication with Management
• Ensure project team follows company Project Controls policies and procedures

Competency Statement(s)

• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Analytical Skills - Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.
• Communication, Written - Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.
• Creative - Ability to think in such a way as to produce a new concept or idea.
• Deductive Reasoning - Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
• Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.
• Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Education: 4-year degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required

Experience: 0 - 10 years related experience in Project Controls, Expertise in modern scheduling and cost tools

Computer Skills: MS Office Suite (MS Work, MS Excel, etc), Bluebeam / Adobe, MS Windows, Primavera P6


Certifications & Licenses: Primavera and PMI Scheduling Professional certifications preferred

Other Requirements: Good Written Communication and Oral Skills, Detail Oriented, Dependable, Technical Aptitude, Good Organizational Skills, Quick Learner, Self-Learner, Good Integrity, Good collaboration skills


Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled