Project Control Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert guidance on cost estimating strategy, methodology, and best practices for large-scale, complex nuclear construction projects.
• Develop, review, and analyze detailed project cost estimates from conceptual design through final construction phases, covering all project elements, including engineering, procurement, and construction.
• Serve as a primary resource for validating and verifying internal and external cost estimates from contractors and subcontractors.
• Analyze historical cost data and apply advanced statistical and analytical techniques to improve the accuracy and reliability of cost estimates.
• Collaborate with the project controls, engineering, and project management teams to ensure that cost estimates are fully integrated with work breakdown structures (WBS), project schedules, and risk assessments.
• Lead complex cost risk analysis activities, providing expert input on potential cost impacts and mitigation strategies.
• Prepare detailed cost estimates and supporting documentation for change orders, contract modifications, and claims.
• Present cost estimates, analyses, and findings to senior NNSA leadership and stakeholders, defending the basis of the estimate and addressing questions.
• Mentor junior estimators and support the development of internal estimating procedures and processes consistent with DOE Order 413.3B.
• Stay current with industry trends, market conditions, and technology related to heavy industrial and nuclear construction to ensure estimates reflect current conditions.

• Provide guidance to management on classification requirements and compliance and on the CD process and deliverable format
• Review and provide input to specifications for engineered equipment and/or subcontracts
• Review and provide input to estimators on resources (labor and other-than-labor) needed to perform the scope of work
• Provide input to schedulers on sequence, durations, and logic of activities
• Provide input to management regarding risk-informed schedules to serve as the basis for establishing milestones and PBIs
• Provide input to engineers, estimators, and schedulers on constructability, maintain-ability, operability, and commissioning
• Provide input to technical writers for BOEs, BOS, and WBS data dictionary

• Must have a working knowledge of Federal (including Department of Energy Orders), State, and Local codes and standards applicable to project controls
• Fifteen years of experience in engineering, construction, operations, estimating, scheduling, project controls, proposal development, and/or project management
• Five years of experience demonstrating knowledge of desired area of subject matter expertise
• Bachelors degree. Candidates not meeting the education requirements may be considered based on additional relevant experience

• Mid-Senior level

• Contract

• Engineering, Design, and Management
• Industries
• Engineering Services, Design Services, and Energy Technology

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