PROJECT CONTROLS SPECIALIST
3 days ago
Posted date3 days ago
Technicians / ServiceJob category
Technicians / ServicePrimary Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain cost and resource loaded CPM Schedules
- Participate in maintaining and developing time-phased budgets, work schedules, work breakdown structures, and cost account plans.
- Provide project earned value management reporting and forecasting.
- Operate software applications based on business/system requirements. Primary focus will be on Microsoft Office, and Oracle Primavera P6 software applications.
- Interface with the project’s technical staff, financial staff, project managers, and functional managers on aspects of scheduling, cost estimating, risk, and earned value analysis.
- Gather, validate, perform, analyze, and report on project monthly performance data.
- Support change management efforts by analyzing and incorporating changes to the schedule and PMB in a timely manner.
- Support the project team in developing, implementing, and maintaining project controls systems.
- Participate in meetings involving schedule development and maintenance and assignment of resources.
- Perform monthly performance and baseline change variance analysis and implement corrective actions.
- Identify problems, draw valid conclusions, and develop effective solutions to project related issues.
- Support risk management efforts including risk analyses, assessments, and processes.
- Development, reviews, and updates of supporting project documentation
- Participate in subcontract development and management of subcontractor performance.
- Work independently to complete assigned tasks and meet deadlines.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in a technical, financial, or business management major.
- Experience working on transit or transportation related projects.
- Excellent skills in utilizing Oracle Primavera (P6), and MS Office software applications.
- 10+ years’ experience supporting the performance of scope management, planning & scheduling to include resource and procurement planning, estimating/cost management, risk management and project performance monitoring and reporting.
- Strong knowledge of project controls and project management best practices
- Competency in managing large programmatic schedules, complicated activity coding and Work Breakdowns Structures
- Solid experience and understanding of Earned Value Management
- Strong technical written and verbal communications skills including the ability to present complex data in easy-to-understand ways for internal and external reviews.
- Self-starter who can work independently as well as part of a multi-discipline team.
- PMI-PMP, PMI-SP, AACE-EVP, AACE-PSP or equivalent certification preferred.
JOB SUMMARY
PROJECT CONTROLS SPECIALIST
Iowa City
3 days ago
Senior
Contract / Freelance / Self-employed