Sr Project Specialist-Controls

Job Description - Sr Project Specialist-Controls )

Job Description

Sr Project Specialist-Controls - (  )

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Summary:

Working within Engineering & Construction (E&C) Project Controls, the Sr. Project Specialist – Controls position will be responsible for working with E&C Project Managers, Program Directors, and the Commercial group to provide front end planning project development support.

This includes consolidating project estimates, developing milestone project and program schedules, evaluating escalation, and developing a program package for economic review.

If assigned to active projects in execution, the Sr. Project Specialist will support the project by providing planning/scheduling, cost management, risk management and reporting support throughout the lifecycle the projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with Project Managers, Program Directors, and Commercial to analyze new capital opportunities
• Develop summary schedules, capital outlay plans, estimate summaries and risk overviews for Project/Program Funding Packages to be sent to Commercial for economic review
• Lead sessions to develop detailed risk registers and run a Monte Carlo analysis to provide project managers and leadership with cost certainty ranges
• Lead planning sessions to develop and maintain program level and project level schedules with input from both internal and external functions
• Work with project team to develop project specific execution plans related to project controls, contract management and overall project execution
• Support Project Managers in the bid package development and issuance, bid analysis, contract creation (ensuring critical progress deliverables are in the contract), and reporting of contractor progress
• Develop a progress and performance measurement plan for major contracts, and if warranted, develop an overall project progress measurement tool to ensure major milestones are earned and trending is on track
• Work with project contractors to ensure deliverables from their contracts are being met, progress reporting is timely and accurate, and all changes are documented properly
• Provide cost management support on major project contracts and assist the PM with forecast/variance analysis
• Update and maintain project schedules and provide analysis of variances to the project team
• Identify, Analyze, and Report major variances of contractor schedules to the Project Management Team related to completion of milestones, slippage of critical path items, and schedule variance
• Update Risk Register and support maintaining it throughout the project life cycle
• Ability to take direction and run down an objective to completion

Required Skills

Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:

• Must be able to effectively support and communicate with various project team members, contractors, and within E&C Project Controls
• Detail oriented with good organizational skills
• Knowledge and application of scheduling standards and practices involving ground-up (facility) and/or linear (pipeline) projects
• Must be able to interface effectively with all levels of internal and external customers
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple concurrent assignments
• Additional work outside of normal business hours may be required
• Travel could