Principal Project Controls Specialist

3 weeks ago


La Porte, United States CB&I Full time

Company Overview:
**CB&I®** is the world's leading designer and builder of storage facilities, tanks and terminals. With more than 60,000 structures completed throughout our 130-year history, we have the global expertise and strategically-located operations to provide customers world-class storage solutions for even the most complex energy infrastructure projects.

Overview:
The PPL Project Controls Specialist will be responsible for managing and leading the Project Control requirements on a large Project (>USD50MM). Responsible for collecting and analyzing project performance data, ensuring the project forecasts are accurate concerning both budgets and timelines. The position will report directly to the Project Controls Director and indirectly to the Project Director and routinely interacts with Senior Management and Regional Operations.

**Responsibilities**:
Key Cost Specialist Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

- Understand contract requirements
- Creation of original budgets from the as-sold estimates developed by Estimating
- Collaboration with Finance & Accounting on financial reporting
- Analyze and report cost impacts
- Manage implementation of the monthly cost report and cost forecast analysis
- Develop and update project progress measurement

Key Scheduling Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

- Understand contract requirements, project milestones and activities
- Lead the development of project schedule working with the project team
- Development of all levels of the project schedule
- Facilitate monthly updates and critical path schedule analysis
- Participate in schedule review meetings
- Analyze and report schedule impacts
- Participate in planning sessions of the project
- May serve as a liaison to coordinate the schedules and tasks of numerous internal teams, and to gather insight, approvals, and other contributions from stakeholders
- Implement and organize project management programs and tools to ensure an efficient system is in place

Local Requirements:

- Location: La Porte, TX
- Position is for a site assigned Project Control lead on a major project.
- May be temporarily assigned to an office location
- Assist the Project Manager in the detail planning and organizing of the project
- Will be the main Project Controls Interface with the Client. Will be required to manage and communicate effectively with the Client.
- Will be the main Project Control Interface with our Subcontractors on site.
- Fully understand contract requirements for reporting, progress measurement, and change management.
- Fully understand internal reporting requirements and generate the required reports
- Will interact on a daily basis with Project Manager and Construction Manager to evaluate progress of work on the job to identify areas which productivity needs to be addressed
- Work closely with Project Manager to price and evaluate impacts of changed working conditions before Change Order requests are submitted to the client for review
- Set-up, implement, update, and maintain our progress management system and reporting for the project
- Set-up and update on a regular basis all required reports for our Client, this includes but is not limited to weekly reports, monthly reports etc.
- Establish and maintain the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS)
- Conform project budgets to company chart of accounts (COA) in enterprise resource planning (ERP) system
- Establish the Schedule of Values for milestone payments; report and forecast project cash flow
- Issue project reporting calendars to all project groups
- Oversee project change management process and tracking database
- Update budgets with as-sold changes in ERP system and progress tracking databases
- Oversee project risk management process, tracking database and facilitate monthly risk assessments
- Analyze schedule, progress, and cost variances vs plan / budget and provide status / resolution input to Project Team

Qualifications:

- BS in Engineering, Business or Finance; or equivalent degree or experience
- 15+ years of EPF or EPC experience as a cost specialist / planner
- Experience in Refining / Oil & Gas, Petrochemical or industrial fabrication industries preferred
- Experience in Construction and Project execution planning preferred

Skills and Behaviors:

- Skilled in MS Word, Excel and Power Point
- Competent in the use of all Microsoft office tools, with particular expert use of Excel.
- Expert in the use of the JDE accounting package, or similar.
- Expert in the use of Primavera P6Business presence and polish
- Knowledge of CB&I products and markets
- Proactively identifies forecast risks and proposes solutions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Mentally agile and ability to multi-task and manage tight deadlines
- A mature business and technical acumen coupled with a drive to achieve results
- Strong communication and presentation skill, both written and verbal
- Ability to work and build credibility acro



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