Project Controls Specialist

1 month ago


Cloquet, United States Boldt Full time

Who we are:

Build your career with Boldt. As a member of the Boldt team, you'll collaborate with some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the construction industry. You'll have the chance to learn new skills and seek greater responsibilities with a team that builds real value in the world around you. You'll succeed in a workplace culture that recognizes, respects, and values differences. Boldt's focus on innovation, collaboration, and employee development provides an opportunity for all our employees to Build Boldly.

HOW YOUR ROLE FITS INTO BOLDT:

The Project Controls Specialist works closely with other project controls and project management teams to monitor project budget and schedule performance, prepare projections of potential results based on trending data, analyze deviations from expectations, and find opportunities for improving the outcomes of the project. Project Specialists will be involved in multiple phases of construction projects from award to close-out and will work with various systems and reports in the performance of project controls duties. Responsibilities may vary between working with a single large project or with multiple smaller projects simultaneously.

Required Skills

WHAT YOU GET TO DO:

* Assist project controls leadership in implementing control processes to achieve the financial and schedule objectives. Solicit current and forecasted cost information from all project-specific trade partners. * Under direct guidance of Project Controls management, support fulfilling the contract's financial and schedule requirements. * Work with various contract types such as lump sum, guaranteed maximum price, and integrated lean project delivery and apply control measures appropriate for each type of project. * Carry out appropriate work breakdown structure of sub-jobs, cost codes, and categories to optimally manage the project budget, schedule, and production management processes. * Review the project estimates with the project team to understand the scope, work breakdown structure, self-perform areas, subcontracted areas, and general requirements. * Assist with project and job setup in the accounting system; including, job information entry, cost codes and categories assignment, and workflow key players designations. * Participate in the development of project-specific plans for efficiently implementing appropriate controls processes and tools vital for achieving project financial and schedule objectives. * Support creation and maintenance of project production management plan, including master schedule, production strategy, constraint removal, make work-ready, weekly and daily plan, and production tracking. * Assemble and analyze productivity measurements and progress metrics to identify trends, and use expected future performance to forecast likely outcomes, then compare to estimated amounts to understand variances. Communicate findings to project leadership and together pursue opportunities for improvement. * Compile earned value reporting by incorporating financial and schedule plan and performance information together in the form of percent earned graphs, labor curves, and cashflow graphs to communicate potential variances from expectations to the team. * Assist project teams in analyzing costs for labor, materials, subcontracts, and general conditions to update the revenue, cost, and profit projection at completion and identify variances with the budget. * Work with project management to identify deviations from contracted project scope and prepare documentation and pricing for submitting change requests to customers for compensation. * Attend monthly project review meetings to discuss the status of financial and schedule performance, projections, cash position, labor, productivity, earned value, risks and opportunities; then develop strategies for achieving or surpassing objectives for these areas. * Support project controls leadership in performing project accounting audits by customers as required. * Complete financial reporting and analysis as necessary to support the project, operating group,

and corporate objectives.

Required Experience

WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU:

* Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Project Controls, Business Administration, or Engineering. A combination of education, training, and/or experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. * Minimum of 2 years of related construction project controls experience required. * General knowledge of construction project controls principles and project management processes preferred. * Skilled in Microsoft Word and Outlook, proficient in Microsoft Excel, familiar with project management systems, and knowledgeable of Power BI beneficial. * This role may require a valid Driver's License and clear Motor Vehicle Report.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to remain in a stationary position for up to eight hours. The employee occasionally is required to move to access people or workspaces. Constantly operates a computer and other office equipment, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer. The ability to effectively communicate is required. The employee may occasionally move up to 15 pounds.

The working conditions of this position requires the employee to work inside an office environment. The environment for which this position functions may contain scents and fragrances. May be requested to work overtime and weekends.

The Boldt Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Disclaimer: This job description is intended to be a summary of the primary essential duties and responsibilities of this position. The job description is not intended to be inclusive of all duties an individual in this position might be asked to perform or all the qualifications that may be required either now or in the future. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or changed at any time.

Individuals in this role may be subject to annual Motor Vehicle Records check. Outcome of any MVR checks conducted may negatively impact the persons' ability to participate in any vehicle program provided by the company, including but not limited to the ability to drive a personal vehicle on behalf of the Boldt Company or rent a vehicle through the Boldt Company travel provider, for a period of up to 1 year.



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