Senior Project Controls Specialist

Stanley Consultants; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health benefits including medical, dental, and vision

401K match and profit sharing

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

A global consulting engineering firm is seeking a Senior Project Controls Specialist to direct project teams in executing project controls on major projects. The ideal candidate will have a degree in a relevant field and 10 to 15 years of experience in planning, scheduling, and cost engineering. This position offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package, emphasizing work-life balance and professional growth.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of planning/scheduling and cost engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience in setting up basic design and construction schedules.
• Ability to demonstrate project control principles and cost engineering knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Direct project team in executing project controls processes.
• Develop scope, schedule, budget, and earned value data.
• Analyze cost and schedule progress and identify issues.

Skills

Project management software proficiency

Communication

Collaboration

Cost engineering principles

Organizational skills

Education

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

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Stanley Consultants is an award-winning and industry-leading global consulting engineering firm, with an unmatched commitment to culture, values, and ethics. We are dedicated to client experience and solve the most complex challenges to create a sustainable, connected, and enriched world for all.

As a Senior Project Controls Specialist, you will be responsible for directing a project team in the execution of all project controls processes and systems on a major project or a number of smaller projects. Under limited supervision, you will perform the more complex aspects of project control activities, ensuring that all project control activities such as project administration, change management, project estimating, cost management, earned value management, and schedule management are executed in a timely fashion and in accordance with all company standards and contractual requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of scope, schedule, budget, earned value and estimate to complete data for assigned tasks
• Lead in the creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and development of schedules and budget data (including resource loading) for those WBS elements
• Analyze cost data to the extent that corrective action can be taken to minimize project losses and the estimate to complete projections are defendable.
• Analyze schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas as well as maintain a checks and balances process with the project management team in determining the financial health of a project
• Consistently estimate accurate completion time of own assignments and coordinate with project team
• Read and interpret design drawings and perform quantity survey techniques in developing construction status
• Take the lead in the development and maintenance of any periodic (daily, weekly, monthly) status reports to keep management and/or owner informed on the project progress.
• Maintain all subsidiary reports such as personnel staffing, and release schedules, equipment schedules, etc., to facilitate good cost projections (EAC)
• Perform detailed variance analysis of project cost and schedule performance and present the analysis to senior management
• Develop defensive and offensive positions relative to project claims and analysis
• Advise management of risks that may affect project profit, costs, schedules and client relations
• Support the Project Management team in maintaining timely and effective trend and change management processes, procedures, and systems
• Assist project manager in following Company Project Delivery Model (PDM)
• Apply and monitor company quality assurance guidelines and procedures for project document management throughout project
• Provide technical guidance (QA/QC), mentoring, and career development counseling for junior level Project Controls staff
• Provide dedicated non-technical project and administrative support to multiple project managers and project team members
• On field assignments, assist with quantity tracking and retrieving project data from subcontractors
• Assist in developing proposals, reviewing RFPs and working with Project Managers to develop responses and fee estimate development
• Attend project meetings and assist with deliverable scheduling and coordinating under direction of project managers and project controls
• Coordinate with Project Managers to maintain project financials in order, updating Deltek Vantagepoint (VP) regularly and timely for accurate Estimates to Complete (ETC)
• Assist Project Manager’s setting up sub-consultant agreements, assisting in approval and execution workflow
• Monitor coordination with sub-consultants on project documentation and deliverables

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's of Science in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, Business or related field; or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 10 to 15 years planning/scheduling and cost engineering experience in a construction and engineering environment or equivalent experience.
• Advanced skills with project management software such as Primavera P6 and spreadsheet and word processing software such as Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Must be able to demonstrate required knowledge of project control principles; understand the principles and concepts of cost engineering as it relates to budgeting, monitoring, and tracking actual costs, change orders and forecasting
• Must have hands-on experience and be able to set up basic design and construction schedules and possess the knowledge of calculating physical percent complete and calculating overall percent complete for the project
• Must understand the various contract types (i.e. cost plus, T&M, FFP) and provide interpretation of the prime contract requirements
• Strengths in organization, communication, and collaboration in team environment

What We Offer:

• Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward.
• Work-Life Balance. We realize there’s more to life than just work.
• Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave.
• Health Portfolio. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of health services including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, Doctor On Demand, wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources.
• Financial Health. We offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, identity theft protection, and many other benefits.
• Professional Growth. When your skills grow, so do we, which is why we offer tuition assistance, professional society membership, and more.
• Financial Rewards. We share our prosperity with members through company stock ownership, a generous 401K match, incentive compensation, and profit-sharing contributions to retirement 401K plans.

Stanley Consultants is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.