Project Controller

ABB Job Opportunity

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This position reports to: Local Division Controller

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead planning, scheduling, and control efforts for all project phases of individual delivery for large size projects. Each day, you will maintain and analyze actual and forecasted schedules, cost, revenues, cash in/out, as well as risks and opportunities. You will also showcase your expertise by supporting in improving planning competence and suggesting improvements for tools and processes used in planning and control.

The work model for the role is: Hybrid

This role is contributing to the Automation division in the US.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Supporting Project Manager by supervising project execution and performance with well-maintained schedule, cost, cash, and risk planning of individual project.
• Analyzing project requirements with the project team and checking that all essential work activities have been identified in sufficient detail to serve as a basis for developing realistic project schedules.
• Monitoring project progress and regularly analyzing project critical paths to ensure all critical path activities and project milestones are progressed to the plan, while notifying Project Managers of any deviations and providing input for optimizing resources.
• Ensuring that the individual projects are closed as per contracts entered with customers in alignment with Project Manager and Project Controller.

You will join a dynamic and high performing team, where you will be able to thrive.

Qualifications for the role

• 3 years of financial or project management related experience
• Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of financial experience in a project business
• Large project management exposure in an industrial manufacturing business or similar
• Experience or exposure with risk management policies and procedures
• SAP Project Systems experience or similar
• Cost forecasting and scheduling experience or exposure
• Self-driven personality with high motivation to work in an international company

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ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees [excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
• Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

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