Senior Project Controls Specialist Energy - Remote

slihrms; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

slihrms is seeking a Senior Project Controls Specialist Energy for a remote role. This position supports risk, cost estimating, scheduling, and EVMS across major nuclear projects, including DOE work. The role emphasizes data integration, cost control, and earned value management with multi-source schedules.

The candidate should bring extensive scheduling experience (Primavera P6, MS Project) and strong communication skills to coordinate vendors and align project baselines with financial plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business or equivalent; 15+ years experience; without degree 20+ years.
• Experience with large nuclear design and construction projects.
• Experience with 500M+ construction project schedules.
• Experience with 7+ year project schedule for large projects.

Responsibilities

• Supports cost estimating, risk management, and scheduling for projects.
• Leads development and maintenance of integrated project schedules.
• Implements EVMS and cost reporting processes.
• Coordinates vendor quotes and data from multiple sources.
• Supports baseline change control and cost engineering analyses.
• Provides data for proposal development and contract negotiations.

Skills

Cost estimating

Risk management

Scheduling

EVMS/earned value

Project controls

Stakeholder communication

Data integration

Field experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

InEight Estimator

Cobra

Job description

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Project Controls Specialist Energy - Remote. This remote position is based out of our Oak Ridge, TN office.

Your role

• Supports a growing Commercial Nuclear Services business.
• Applies cost estimating, risk management, scheduling, accounting and procurement interface, cost reporting and variance reporting to the team.
• May include field experience supporting large nuclear projects, construction projects, and/or US Department of Energy projects.
• Assists the Business Manager with leading schedule development and maintenance.
• Supports the Business Manager with integrating project earned value data, project cost estimates, and schedules into a combined data source and working with them to ensure compliance of their processes.
• Assists and supports projects planning through development of project schedules and cost estimates; schedule maintenance activities; cost engineering analysis and control activities; monitoring that work is completed as scheduled and develops estimates using various sources.
• Supports projects with varied and emergent tasks as needed, including tasks that might not be strictly project controls in scope.
• Leads and directs development and maintenance of project and program schedules of various levels, including summary, detailed and programmatic.
• Leads and directs monthly reporting activities.
• Assists with establishing and maintaining an Earned Value Management System (EVMS).
• Supports proper control, tracking and cost accounting for project financials and cost alignment with the approved project Work Breakdown/Project Coding structure.
• Assists with total project cost updates related to schedule/cost engineering and material control and develops supporting data for proposal development and contract negotiations. Reviews requirements related to determining total scope.
• Leads and directs coordination and consolidation of project schedules and data from multiple sources into the integrated project schedule.
• Develops cost estimates of various types, including conceptual, order of magnitude, parametric and bottoms-up.
• Develops or provides support and guidance in the development of Basis of Estimates and WBS Dictionaries.
• Assists and supports reviews of all estimates for completeness and correctness prior to being submitted to management.
• Supports scope changes to the Performance Measurement Baseline through the Baseline Change process.
• Interfaces with designated management and project counterparts for specific planning and schedule tasks.
• Provides project controls support related to the integration, control and management of projects; specifically, project planning and scheduling and progress management.
• Implements and complies with policies, plans, processes, interfaces and reporting to organize and schedule project work, taking into account time and resource constraints.
• Supports the project team with all aspects of the project planning and scheduling functions, including determining durations for the time phasing of the project baseline into the project schedule, management of an integrated schedule, development and updating of progress curves, performance curves and assessment of resources.
• Coordinates vendor/ subcontractor requested quotes as related to specific WBSs of the estimate.
• Promotes and contributes to synergy among teammates
• Leads and directs the work of others.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

About you

• Bachelor's degree required in Business or an equivalent technical degree with 15 years' experience. Without a degree, requires 20 years' experience.
• Previous experience with large nuclear design and construction projects.
• Previous experience with $500M+ construction project schedules.
• Previous experience with 7+ year project schedule for large projects.
• Effective organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective coordination and integration skills.
• Intermediate skills with MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, with advanced Excel skills preferred.
• Advanced skills with Primavera P6 and MS Project software.
• Intermediate skills with InEight Estimator or similar cost estimating software.
• Intermediate skills with earned value management systems and reporting.
• EVMS, Cobra or Primavera P6 certification helpful.
• American Society of Professional Estimators (ASPE) and/or Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) International certifications preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Previous Experience with Integrated Program Schedules covering multiple nuclear construction projects preferred.
• Previous experience with $1B+ construction cost estimates preferred.
• Effective organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective coordination and integration skills.
• Intermediate skills with MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, with advanced Excel skills preferred.