Project Controls, Staff

M.C. Dean, Inc.; Virginia; On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Virginia is seeking a Project Controls professional to handle project planning and scheduling activities. The candidate should have extensive experience in tracking projects, maintaining schedules, and preparing management reports. Ideal applicants have at least 8 years of experience, with a preference for those using scheduling software like Primavera P6. Join our dynamic team and contribute to impactful engineering solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with a High School Diploma or 6+ years of experience with an Associate degree or 2+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Providing project planning and scheduling documentation.
• Assisting Team Leads and Project Managers in tracking projects.
• Preparing periodic management and customer reports as required.
• Creating and revising preliminary master schedules before project start.
• Maintaining Master schedule for projects.
• Evaluating actual progress and providing regular updates.
• Contributing to the development of working schedules for Estimating.
• Assisting Project Managers in creating short-term schedules.
• Remaining current on advancements in scheduling software.

Skills

Project planning and scheduling

Problem-solving

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

High School Diploma with 8+ years experience or Associate degree with 6+ years experience or Bachelor's degree with 2+ years experience

Tools

Primavera P6

CMMS software

PM Online

AS400

Job description

Overview

About Modular Mission Critical ModularMission Critical™ is the manufacturing campus for M.C. Dean’s complex, modular product line for datacenters and critical infrastructure. Located just north of Richmond, VA, this site is growing fast serving customers worldwide. Important openings include assemblers for our production lines and engineers and designers for products and continuous improvement. Join M.C. Dean’s more than 9,000 employees around the world making an impact through innovations in power and technology.

Why Join Us? Our people are passionate about innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment for employees to build long-term careers.

Project Controls, Staff designates work to be done and specifies deadlines for completing tasks and deliverables. Full use and application of standard theories, concepts and techniques in a specialized field. Responsible for aiding, tracking, monitoring status, controlling and performing issue resolution throughout the project's life cycle. Provides solutions to a variety of problems.

Responsibilities

• Providing project planning and scheduling documentation to support project and customer requirements.
• Providing planning and scheduling support for in-house or on-site work as required.
• Assisting Team Leads, Superintendents and the Project and Program Managers in tracking the projects against baseline schedules and budgets.
• Preparing periodic management and/or customer reports and presentations as required.
• Assisting on project proposal teams.
• Prior to project start, creating and revising preliminary master schedules, detailing the sequence of all work to be performed.
• Assisting Project Manager in maintaining Master schedule for each project, identifying and recording the impact of work performed and not performed as scheduled.
• Evaluating actual progress and providing regular schedule updates.
• Interfacing with Operations to discuss impact of work and resolution of problems.
• Contributing to the development of working schedules for Estimating, prior to proposal date, which sufficiently illustrate the sequence of work activities and contract time.
• Assist in preparing and issuing proposal and preliminary schedule.
• Incorporating Resource and/or Cost Loading data into schedules as required.
• Consulting appropriate project team members and estimating procedures as a means of ensuring that proper planning is completed prior to the commencement of work.
• Assisting Project Managers in creating short-term schedules, monitoring such schedules to determine impact on master schedule, and helping in formulating actions to correct scheduling problems.
• Providing information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project schedule.
• Remaining current on the advancements in scheduling software.
• Continuously expanding and updating professional knowledge and honing training skills in order to enhance individual and team innovation and productivity.
• Aiding Project Managers and others as required with incorporation of fragments in Project Schedule.
• Schedules and tracks equipment maintenance using CMMS software

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with a High School Diploma or 6+ years of experience with an Associate degree or 2-+years of experience with a Bachelor'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.