Senior Project Controls Specialist

The Kendall Group; Seven Stars (PA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Kendall Group is seeking a Senior Project Controls Specialist to join its Relay & Power Project Management Team. You will lead cost management, scheduling, and project controls activities across multiple vendors and contracts, ensuring on-time, on-budget project delivery and KPI reporting.

You will support PMO with project plans, risk analysis, and change control while mentoring team members and coordinating with stakeholders to exceed client expectations.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience as a project specialist or similar role managing processes or projects with multiple vendors, timelines, and budgets
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in engineering, business, or related field
• Advanced MS Office skills; strong scheduling and costing knowledge; understanding of project accounting principles
• Ability to multi-task, stay organized, and manage priorities in a fast paced environment

Responsibilities

• Support budgeting, change management, forecasting and reporting for cost management
• Perform earned value reporting and project variance analysis
• Provide monthly revenue, gross profit margin, cost and completion forecasts
• Maintain and align project schedules with stakeholders; develop and track baselines
• Interpret contract requirements and support risk management and change orders

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Service Excellence

Results oriented

Accountability

Teamwork

Strategic thinking

Decision quality

Inspiring others

Problem solving

Self-motivation

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project accounting principles

Scheduling tools

Primavera

Microsoft Project

Job description

Role Summary

Reporting to the Finance & Project Controls RPS Director, the Senior Project Controls Specialist is a key member of the Relay & Power Project Management Team. The Senior Project Controls Specialist is responsible for providing hands‑on project services implementation and delivery including (but not limited to) cost and/or planning/scheduling functions on minor or major projects. Reports to the Director of Finance on project analytics pertaining to KPI's at both the project and business level. Contributes to the design, development, and implementation of additional project controls tools and processes that will add value to both internal and external stakeholders. The Senior Project Controls Specialist shall ensure quality Project Controls deliverables are being met on time to satisfy the company’s customer and internal corporate requirements.

Exciting work you will do

• Support RPS Finance in budgeting, change management, forecasting, and reporting for Cost Management
• Support QA/QC reviews of sales and operations processes at various stages
• Progress measurement, Earned Value reporting for RPS projects
• Provide reports of Profit & Loss to management
• Oversee project man loaded control level schedule process for weekly updates and ensure consistent alignment with project schedules
• Establish invoicing milestones as required for each project, tracking progress and billing forecasts
• Provide project controls deliverables based on contractual requirements as specified by each client and or project
• Support PMO Manager in developing and maintaining project plans
• Mentor project management personnel
• Lead other department personnel to ensure all Project Controls objectives are being satisfied to all manager and other key stakeholders’ expectations in support of the weekly project requirements
• Perform Project Scheduling using Microsoft Project, including but not limited to, high level proposal schedules, baseline project schedules, schedule analysis for change impacts, and resource loading across tasks
• Maintain project variance logs, and mitigation details on potential change order impacts to schedule and cost
• Provide Resource Utilization metrics on individual projects as well as enterprise scheduling across all projects
• Support Project Scheduling Deliverables that meet customer requirements
• Provide monthly forecasts of project revenue, GP margin, cost and completion milestones
• Interpret prime and second tier contract requirements
• Implement project risk analysis related to cost and/or schedule
• Support risk management activities via commercial flow down requirements to sub‑contractors
• Interpret technical documents for estimating and change management.
• Assist Project Managers in the logging, tracking, mitigation of risk, and development of approved change orders
• Other duties as assigned

Competencies you possess

• Attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills
• Service Excellence
• Results, Action Oriented
• Accountability and responsibility
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Strategic Thinking
• Decision Quality
• Inspiring and motivating others
• Problem solving
• Self‑starter, self‑motivation

What you’ll need

• Work Experience: 7 years previous experience in a project specialist or similar role working on processes or projects with multiple vendors, timelines, and budgets
• Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Analytics/Computer Skills: Advanced Microsoft Office Skills; basic understanding of project accounting principles and processes, advanced knowledge of scheduling or costing tools, procedures and processes
• Organization Skills: Highly organized and detail‑oriented; ability to multi‑task and shift priorities as needed; ability to organize and manage multiple priorities; time management skills
• Cross‑functional skills: Ability to work well cross‑functionally; provides excellent internal and external customer service
• Communication Skills: Strong oral and written communication skills; Strong interpersonal skills; strong analytical skills; ability to maintain confidentiality
• Physical, Mental and Visual Skills:
  • Ability to see, talk and hear
  • Ability to sit for 8 hours a day
• Physical Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to temperature conditions and noise levels prevalent in an office environment. Work conditions at customer sites, which may be actively under construction, vary from indoor to outdoor industrial & electric utility facilities that may have high voltage equipment.

Skills we prefer but don’t require

Work Experience: 10 years' project management experience; previous experience in project management or project controls on lump sum and T&M projects; experience with engineering, procurement, and/or construction projects; hands‑on experience and knowledge of cost and/or schedule management; experience in Primavera or experience in creating resource loaded project schedules using scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project; management or lead experience; Project Management Professional Certification

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Kendall Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, military status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.