Project Controls, Staff

The Project Controls 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.

• 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

Required:

Bachelor's degree (preferred) with 2+ years experience related to project controls. 8+ with a High School Diploma / GED

Experience with project management system (MS Project or Primavera P6)

Understanding of data analysis and how to extract insights from project and resource data

Ability to create project schedules and scheduling of resources (work items and tasks by hours)

Ability to proactively discuss project resource schedules with project leadership

Strong executive-level communication and presentation skill

Candidate must be able to travel up to 25% to project sites.

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and may meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. Citizenship, for access to classified information.

Preferred:

Working knowledge of finance systems as it relates to project budgets and cost codes

Understanding of earned value analysis as it relates to project management

Exposure to Database Systems

PMI certification in project management (PMP) and/or project scheduling (PSP)

Abilities:

Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.

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.