Project Controls Senior

M.C. Dean; Monroe (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm based in Louisiana is seeking a Senior Project Controls specialist to enhance project scheduling and resource tracking. You will coordinate with project teams to manage baselines, analyze variances, and maintain internal performance tracking. Ideal candidates should have over 10 years of relevant experience and a background in using project management software. This role requires strong communication skills and a drive for project success while collaborating closely with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project controls experience with a High School Diploma / GED.
• 8+ years of experience with an Associate's Degree.
• 5+ years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree.
• 3+ years of experience with a Master's degree.

Responsibilities

• Engage early in the project lifecycle to understand scope and milestones.
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure with assigned resources.
• Manage project resource scheduling to maintain the baseline.
• Analyze project data for baseline vs actual reporting.
• Measure schedule variances and execute remedies.

Skills

Project performance tracking

Resource scheduling

Schedule variance analysis

Staff forecasting

Effective communication

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Associate's Degree

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Project Management Software (PM Online)

Primavera P6

AS400

Job description

Overview

The Project Controls, Senior works with project leaders and project teams to analyze project data and define project schedules to ensure all project milestones are met. Takes ownership of driving the development and maintenance of all project artifacts that are required to ensure effective short-term and long-term staff forecasting, scheduling, and controls for the project. They will work with the project team to ensure all resources and skills needed based on the project tasks and schedule are recorded and tracked from baselines to update to closure of the project. The Project Controls specialist is responsible for configuring their project's internal project performance tracking database to accurately update and status the project schedule. They are responsible for analyzing both the internal and external schedules based on these performance updates to present opportunities and deficiencies to all project stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Engaging on the project early in the project lifecycle (no later than at award) to fully understand the scope of the project, project budget, and key milestones.
• Assisting the Project Leader in developing a Work Breakdown Structure for the project with resources assigned to tasks (resource loaded) to establish a baseline resource plan
• Managing the scheduling of resources on the project to maintain the baseline project schedule.
• Analyzing real-time project data and creating baseline vs actual reporting of resources
• Measuring and analyzing schedule variances and defining and executing remedies to address variances.
• Driving the development and maintenance of all project artifacts that are required to ensure effective short-term and long-term staff forecasting for the project, including but not limited to:
• A Product Dominant WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) that is aligned with the corporate and emerging SBU WBS. The WBS should list the alignment of staff by function, system, subsystem and technical discipline for directly responsible individuals.
• A Functional Organization Chart(s) that is color-coded based on the corporate color-coded functional designations and meets all the approved attributes of the Staff Forecasting Best Known Way organization chart for both an Initial (20%-50%) Org Chart and a Peak Manpower Org Chart where resources and skills needed can be tracked.
• A Short-Term Staff Management System that measures the actual staffing against the defined baseline (B0) staffing plan. and meets all the approved attributes of the Staffing Forecasting Best Known Way short-term staff management system, including a plan vs actual manpower curve or bar chart
• A Long-Term Staffing Forecast that defines the future staffing requirements and HR staffing actions needed to meet ongoing and future project resource demand and meets all of the approved attributes of the Staff Forecasting Best Known Way long-term staffing forecast, including a 4 week and 12 week lookahead (updated weekly or bi-weekly depending on the pace of change of the project).
• A Job Connect Hierarchy that tethers the staffing forecast and schedule to Job Connect.
• Managing the integration of data from multiple company systems to create the above artifacts and analyzing the data to draw insights around staff forecasting to share with project leadership
• Reviewing the project schedule with the General Contractor if requested by project leadership.
• Working directly with the Client on a schedule if requested by project leadership.
• Maintaining a positive, assertive relationship with project leadership, including field supervisors, to achieve project milestones and overall project success

Qualifications

• Education/Experience: 10+ years of experience with a High School Diploma / GED OR 8+ years of experience with an Associate's Degree OR 5+ years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree OR 3+ years of experience with a Master's degree
• Preferred but not required: Project Management Software (PM Online) - In-house Software. AS400 (internal) CMMS software Primavera P6 software

Abilities

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Identify and understand the speech of another person.