Project Controls & Scheduling Specialist

Golden State Water Company; San Dimas (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid vacation & holidays

Life Insurance

Job summary

The Golden State Water Company is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to support the Capital Program Management team in delivering capital projects on time and within budget. You will develop schedules, cost reports, and cash flows, and coordinate with project teams and contractors.

Responsibilities include setup in Trimble Unity Construct, preparing dashboards in Power BI, and ensuring schedule integrity with baselines and changes. Strong communication and analytical skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering, construction management, or related field with 5 years of direct project control experience.
• Experience with critical path scheduling, project cost management, estimating, and document control.
• Accounting knowledge preferred.
• Experience with Trimble Unity Construct (e-Builder) preferred.
• Ability to facilitate and produce detailed construction schedules and interface those schedules with engineering and procurement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Completes project set-up in Trimble Unity Construct, formerly e-Builder, software.
• Analyzes data, reviews logs, and runs reports in the Trimble Unity Construct or other tools.
• Creates Work Breakdown Structures and links to Cost Breakdown Structures.
• Develops, implements, and maintains scheduling, cost reports, cash flows, and forecasts for multiple capital projects.
• Follows project execution plans.
• Helps with engineering, procurement, construction planning, scheduling, logistics, and cost control.
• Supports the Project Controls Lead in responding to technical questions from the project team.
• Inputs and documents changes to cost reports or forecasts.
• Interfaces with the project team to review project and contingency costs and support external audits.
• Creates and presents cash flow reports.
• Develops various levels of schedules.
• Applies and reviews the entry of logic ties within the schedules.
• Monitors resource loading of a schedule.
• Supports interactive project planning and construction work in progress meetings.
• Verifies that the various schedule reports are in the appropriate reporting format.
• Creates, reviews, and analyzes pre-programmed project scheduling reports and back-up documentation for accuracy.
• Consults with the project team on schedule progress.
• Analyzes and evaluates scheduling methods, such as critical path and scheduling techniques, estimating, project cost management, earned value, and forecasting.
• Performs schedule what-if scenarios.
• Assists with the development and maintenance of dashboards in Power BI.
• Performs quality checks and inspections on project control deliverables.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Critical path scheduling

Cost management

Estimating

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in engineering, construction management, or related field

Tools

Trimble Unity Construct

MS Office

Power BI

Job description

The Golden State Water Company is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to support the Capital Program Management team in delivering capital projects on time and within budget. You will develop schedules, cost reports, and cash flows, and coordinate with project teams and contractors.

Responsibilities include setup in Trimble Unity Construct, preparing dashboards in Power BI, and ensuring schedule integrity with baselines and changes. Strong communication and analytical skills are essential.