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PROJECT CONTROLS SPECIALIST

Primary 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.
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PROJECT CONTROLS SPECIALIST
Iowa City
3 days ago
Senior
Contract / Freelance / Self-employed