Project Controls Associate Manager

Cumming; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Short and long-term disability

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Cumming Group in San Diego, CA is seeking an Assistant Project Controls Manager to join our education sector team. You will support budgeting, forecasting, and cost-control activities across multiple school projects, collaborating with project managers and schedulers to ensure performance aligns with contract and funding requirements.

The role emphasizes data-driven reporting, cost coding, and processing change orders, with opportunities to develop standard reports and participate in EAC

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field.
• 3-5 years professional experience in program and/or project controls on a construction program.
• Knowledge of cost/schedule management, earned value management, change management, forecasting, and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Assist in monitoring the project budget and forecast in accordance with approved standard operating procedures.
• Participate in monthly EAC meetings to validate and review current EAC's, including providing justification of variances.
• Assist Bond Program Controls Manager in conducting cost variance analysis of reported data to identify trends and mitigate potential budget impacts.
• Monitor identified trends and mitigation plans over time against actual performance.
• Review and analyze budget and expenditures against projects based upon various funding sources.
• Collaborate with schedulers to review cost and schedule performance to determine cost overruns/underruns, issues with project durations, or variances in spend analyzing plan versus expenditures over period.
• Review and analyze monthly cost reports and monthly progress reports.
• Review staffing plans, identify any excessive peaks or potential cost impacts and make recommendations for peak leveling.
• Provide cost coding and budget verification for contract change orders and amendments for impact on budget/timetable.
• Review task order requests, change orders and amendments to ensure budget availability, accurate cost coding and reporting.
• Ensure implementation of client policies, procedures and plans regarding cost management of capital projects with multiple funding sources.
• Allocate the ETCs when required (PBA, Change Orders, etc.).
• Monitor and manage the ETCs for each project.
• Develop standard and ad hoc reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop reports that support budgeting, cost control, auditing, asset tracking, using various systems and data bases to include but not limited to UII, Proliance, DELTEK, and other systems used by the Program Management Office
• Create budget transfers, produces financial closeouts.
• Work with the Project Managers on project budget issues (verifying budgets for additional Task Orders needed for IOR, LOR, additional services, etc.).
• Assist the Project Managers with amendment exhibits to contracts.
• Coordinate with the Project Managers/Construction Manager to establish and maintain data coding structures, project control tools, and quality data for budgets, contracts, change orders, trends and actual costs.
• Verification of charge codes for purchase requisitions and change orders to ensure proper cost accounting.
• Assist with preparation of reporting on budget and cost as directed by management.
• Collect/review draft PBA's w/ PM's for monthly submission including cost verification of previous amendments.
• Support development of weekly/monthly cost and status reports for project team.
• Perform necessary data entry for budget and forecast impacts.
• Develop and maintain change management logs per standardized processes and procedures.
• Travel to offsite project locations as required.
• Other job-related duties or projects as assigned.

Skills

Budget monitoring

EAC meetings

Cost variance analysis

Forecasting

Reporting

Change orders

Schedule integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Deltek

Proliance

UII

Job description

Cumming Group in San Diego, CA is seeking an Assistant Project Controls Manager to join our education sector team. You will support budgeting, forecasting, and cost-control activities across multiple school projects, collaborating with project managers and schedulers to ensure performance aligns with contract and funding requirements.

The role emphasizes data-driven reporting, cost coding, and processing change orders, with opportunities to develop standard reports and participate in EAC