Management Lead

Company Description

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AECOM is seeking a Performance Management Lead for one of our offices in Sacramento, CA. This role will support and work in partnership with the leads over Cost, Schedule, and Risk Units to effectively collate, monitor, and report performance against the baseline. They are responsible for developing, maintaining, and reviewing project controls data including budget, cost forecast, schedule, and risk information and providing accurate and timely reporting of the program’s performance and variance analysis.

• Key PMO resource in charge of the Capital Baseline, including the technical supporting documents, systems, and data underling the baseline.
• Responsible for integration of the baseline across functions and branches via coordination with PMO Cost Control team.
• Supports definition of how progress is measured against the Capital Baseline.
• Controls against changes to the Capital Baseline per Governance processes.
• Assess estimates, costs, risks, and schedule updates across the program for adherence to the Capital Baseline.
• Support with the development of annual budgets for specialist sections of the program, taking ownership of articulating and tabulating year on year movements and the multi-year forecasts.
• Compare and analyze trends and risks against the original cost estimates and budgets within the Capital Baseline. Identify opportunities to bring costs trends to prompt mitigations to bring cost trend in line with estimates and budgets.
• Drive process, procedure and systems related improvement across the Risk Management Office working with the wider business to fully integrate these requirements.
• Work with the wider Controls team, to build out a scalable Work Break-Down Structure, Asset Break-Down Structure, and other necessary project specific data structures required to better enable rolled up reporting across the organization.
• Work in partnership with the Reporting function to provide strategic direction to the monthly and-annual reporting requirements so that information is appropriately prioritized for its audience, is accurate, appropriately detailed, submitted timely to enable key decision making and is aligned to the requirements of key stakeholders.
• Operate as the big picture expert on the Capital Baseline to ensure consistency and robustness of data, and reporting.
• Continually review the existing baseline processes, structures, and data to provide any recommendations for improvements.

• BA/BS + 8 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business Management, Project Management, or related technical field and 10 years experience in related fields of transit and or program controls.
• Have expertise in the principles and practices of project management, data management and cost control; project cost planning and reporting techniques; construction project phases and disciplines.
• Use analytical techniques to provide cost analysis and provide solutions; research and compile data and maintain accurate and complete project records; meet deadlines; work and communicate effectively with others using courtesy, respect, and sensitivity; and follow and adhere to company policies.
• Experience of managing and motivating controls teams on major programs.
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