Sr Project Controls Specialist

Job Title: Senior Project Controls Specialist

Location: Walnut Creek, CA

Job type and Duration: Contract to Hire

Our client, a global Architecture and Design Firm, is looking to hire a Senior Project Controls Specialist to join their team in Walnut Creek, CA.

The Senior Project Controls Specialist leads project controls processes and consults with the project management team to ensure client satisfaction. Presents schedule and budget status reports to the project management team and client.

• Validate proper set-up and management of the Enterprise Planning & Controls software.
• Analyze data, logs, and reports in the Enterprise Planning & Controls software or other tools.
• Validate proper Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is utilized.
• Develop effective scheduling reports, cost reports, cash flow reports, and forecasts for multiple projects.
• Develop, implement, and manage the reporting data warehouse to produce valuable program control reports and data for multiple large projects.
• Provide leadership and training to team members ensuring the resolution of difficult project control issues.
• Develop and implement project execution plans.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with existing and potential clients, customers, and contractors.
• Responsible for engineering, procurement, and construction planning, scheduling, logistics, and cost control.
• Serve as a point of contact for technical questions from the project team.
• Validate the accuracy of cost management and forecast reporting.
• Interface with the Project Management Team and Accounting Department to review project costs and contingency costs and support external audits.
• Experience in negotiation of prime agreements, construction contracts/subcontract agreements.
• Review upstream (prime contract) / downstream (purchase orders & subcontract) change orders.
• Analyze cash flow reports.
• Lead the Interactive Project Planning Meetings (IPPM).
• Lead the presentation of Project Controls reporting.
• Validate schedule progress.
• Analyze and evaluate schedule management involving the critical path method of scheduling techniques, estimating, project cost management, forecasting, and document control.
• Perform schedule what-if scenarios.
• Validate the accuracy of earned value management system reporting.
• Analyze progress measurement.
• Analyze progress curves.
• Perform and review material takeoffs.
• Identify and oversee the Risk Management process.
• Perform quality checks and inspections on project control deliverables.
• Perform field audits to validate the accuracy of reporting and processes.
• Perform Project Forensic Analysis.
  
  

Requirements:

• Candidate must have 50% Cost experience and 50% Scheduling experience.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or a related field and 8-12 years of direct project control experience is required
• Experience with critical path scheduling, project cost management, estimating, and document control is required.
• Experience with Oracle Primavera P6 is a MUST.
• Ability to facilitate and produce detailed construction schedules and interface those construction schedules with engineering and procurement activities preferred.
  
  

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