Project Controls, Staff

Project Controls, Staff designates work to be done and specified 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. What to do is defined but how to do it is left up to the individual.

Responsible for

* 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

* May require some travel to job sites

Education Requirements:

* 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.