Project Leadership, Team Integration, and Project Setup - Serves as an active member of assigned project teams, providing timely, objective project controls information that supports financial, schedule, and execution decisions.
- Works closely with Project Management, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Pre-Construction, Finance, and other stakeholders to align scope, schedule, cost, risk, resources, and execution priorities.
- Supports project setup and mobilization, including the work breakdown structure, coding structures, baseline controls, responsibility assignments, reporting cadence, and Project Controls execution requirements.
- Independently identifies emerging performance issues, evaluates root causes, and recommends corrective or recovery actions to project leadership and the Project Controls Director.
- Builds effective working relationships with subcontractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders while representing the Company professionally.
| Cost Management, Financial Performance, and Forecasting | - Performs and coordinates project cost management activities, including budgeting, commitment tracking, cost control, accruals, productivity analysis, cash flow, cost trending, variance analysis, and Estimate-at-Completion development.
- Leads preparation and analysis of assigned project forecasts and reforecasts, ensuring assumptions, risks, opportunities, and performance drivers are documented, supported, and communicated.
- Analyzes actual and forecast performance to identify changes in project trajectory and provides actionable insights that support margin protection and informed decision-making.
- Works with Project Management, Finance, and Operations to reconcile project controls information with financial reporting and resolve material variances.
- Maintains accurate, timely, and defensible project cost and forecast data in accordance with enterprise standards.
Schedule Management | - Develops, maintains, updates, and analyzes project schedules, including logic, critical path, milestones, resource loading, progress, and forecast completion dates.
- Facilitates schedule reviews with project stakeholders, pressure-tests assumptions, and identifies threats to key milestones and contractual dates.
- Develops look-ahead schedules, schedule narratives, recovery scenarios, and other schedule views required to support execution.
- Ensures assigned schedules comply with enterprise and contractual requirements and provide reliable information for decision-making.
| Risk Management - Facilitates identification, assessment, quantification, documentation, and monitoring of project cost, schedule, resource, and execution risks and opportunities.
- Maintains project risk and opportunity registers with clear exposure, ownership, mitigation actions, due dates, and potential impacts.
- Supports deterministic and probabilistic risk analysis as appropriate to project needs and enterprise requirements.
- Monitors mitigation and contingency actions and escalates material changes in project exposure.
Change Management - Implements and administers the project change management process so that trends, scope changes, claims, and potential impacts are identified, evaluated, documented, approved, and incorporated into cost, schedule, and forecast.
- Develops or supports change estimates, pricing, schedule impact analyses, contract amendments, back charges, and supporting documentation.
- Maintains accurate change logs and provides visibility into pending, approved, rejected, and realized changes.
- Partners with project and commercial stakeholders to improve the timeliness and quality of change identification and resolution.
Energy Management - Incorporates energy production, savings, performance commitments, and related economics into applicable project controls processes.
- Works with project and technical leaders to track performance commitments, identify variances, and support corrective actions that protect contractual and economic outcomes.
Planning & Project Setup - Supports execution planning and project startup activities, including coordination with Pre-Construction, Estimating, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Project Management.
- Contributes to development of the baseline schedule, engineering packages, work breakdown structure, preliminary time-phased spend, controls procedures, and Project Execution Plan.
- May support proposals, constructability planning, feasibility studies, and project close-out reporting.
Interface with Operational Finance - Supports revenue recognition, margin, billing, cash, reforecasting, accruals, and month-end alignment between project controls information and the financial ledger.
- Investigates discrepancies and supports timely resolution of differences among project forecasts, operational expectations, and financial reporting.
- Provides the Project Controls Director with clear information on material financial trends, risks, and opportunities.
Reporting & Performance Analytics - Develops, analyzes, and presents accurate and timely Project Controls reports, dashboards, KPIs, cost curves, progress information, and management analyses for assigned projects.
- Conducts trend, variance, productivity, and performance analysis to anticipate issues and recommend actions.
- Prepares and presents project controls information for weekly, monthly, quarterly, client, and internal project reviews.
- Ensures reporting is decision-oriented, traceable to source data, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Team Leadership, Culture and Talent Development - Provides technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to project controls specialists, schedulers, cost engineers, and analysts as assigned.
- May coordinate day-to-day work and quality reviews for project controls personnel on assigned projects without assuming formal manager accountability.
- Models an ownership-driven culture in which Project Controls personnel proactively identify risk, challenge assumptions, and contribute to project outcomes.
- Shares knowledge, supports onboarding and development, and contributes to a collaborative project controls community.
Standards, Tools, and Continuous Improvement - Applies and champions enterprise Project Controls standards, procedures, tools, systems, and methodologies on assigned projects.
- Monitors data quality and process compliance, identifies gaps, and recommends practical improvements to the Project Controls Director.
- Supports continuous improvement through technology, automation, analytics, lessons learned, and proven Project Controls practices.
- Performs other project controls duties and supports special initiatives as assigned.
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