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Contract: Project Controls Specialist III / Calgary
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| Added: | 2022-10-25 |
| Location: | Calgary |
| Salary: | . |
| Duration: | Contract |
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Job Title: Project Controls Specialist III
Location: Calgary, AB
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 40 hours
Contract Length: 1 year
Start date: ASAP
Assignment Scope:
- assigned projects within the Capital Projects department, the Project Controls Specialist (PCS) is accountable for scheduling, integrated planning, cost control, progress tracking, and change management for engineering design, procurement, construction, and maintenance projects.
The PCS will utilize his/her expert knowledge of P6 and all phases of capital projects to integrate the activities and deliverables from all internal and external stakeholders. This expertise includes the analysis of manpower plans, histograms, project critical path and alignment between schedule and cost forecasts.
In addition, the PCS will also have expert working knowledge of SAP and in performing cost control functions related to the monitoring, tracking and forecasting of project costs and budgets. The activities include analyzing and verifying the various contractors’ cost reports in relationship to baseline budgets, spend profiles and forecasts and advising the Project Management Team (PMT) of committed, incurred, invoiced, and forecast cost evaluations.
The PCS is also expected to have expert knowledge in the quantity and manhour-based progress tracking, generating and analyzing commodity progress curves, and auditing contractors’ progress reports.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop integrated project and program schedules by integrating plans from all functional groups, including but not limited to engineering, procurement, contracting, fabrication, modularization, construction, commissioning and start-up.
• Prepare alternative and what-if schedule scenarios for decision-making and recovery or work-around plans.
• Resource-load, level, optimize and “crash” schedules.
• Establish schedule baselines and re-baselines where required. Update schedule on routine basis.
• Support analysis of contractor bids including schedule/commercial normalization of various proposals.
• Maintain integrity of scope and quantity data as a basis for schedule management.
• Monitor, update, control and forecast projects schedules, committed, incurred, and invoiced costs.
• Track projects incurred and actual costs against budgets and forecasts in SAP and SiteView.
• Prepare reconciliations, monthly reports, trends, forecast at completion estimates, variance analysis, manpower profiles, spend profiles and project completion reports.
• Review and evaluate contractors’ change requests and participate in project change management and risk management reviews. Incorporate approved changes into schedules, baselines and budgets as needed.
• Review & Validate contractor and/or partner project schedules, progress reports, manpower plans, and installed quantities tracking to ensure alignment with incurred cost and forecast cost/schedule analysis.
• Assist the project team in forecasting spend for accrual purposes.
• Validate and release all invoices related to project activities in a timely and efficient manner.
• Assist in the processing of journal entries for financial accuracy.
• Work closely with cost estimating, risk management and functional leaders to develop integrated project schedules, progress, and analysis reports.
• Provide cost input to projects benchmarking and provide related metrics such as rates of progress and manpower densities.
• Provide input for projects estimating and risk assessments. Apprise management of schedule conflicts, opportunities and risks across functional groups and facilitate improvements.
• Maintain a document trail to facilitate internal audits of project control systems.
• Write related procedures based on C-CPMS standards and procedures, as required.
• Support the project close-out process, as required.
• Other duties as required and directed by Project Controls Lead, Project Services Manager, Construction Manager and Project Manager.
Mandatory Qualifications
• Expert hands-on work experience in using the Primavera P6 tool.
• Degree or Technical Certificate, or equivalent work experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with project accounting practices and principles.
• Minimum 5 years oil and gas industry experience in a Project Control role.
• Proficient in the use of SAP and MS Office suite.
Knowledge, Skills, and Other Requirements
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment and meet tight deadlines.
• Strong technical, interpersonal and team working skills.
• Familiarity with AFE procedures and the project gate process.
• Experience with the typical project controls requirements within all types of contract agreements (cost reimbursable, lump-sum, unit rate and target price).
• Demonstrated analytical skills.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Efficiently prioritize work to meet deadlines.
• SiteView experience is considered an asset.
• Knowledge of the risk management processes, including schedule risk analysis is considered and asset.
How to Apply
70 Brunswick Street
Stockton on Tees
Cleveland
TS18 1DW
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