Project Controls Manager

Overview

Take Your Delivery Management Career to the Next Level
Kleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is committed to a people-first culture, technical excellence, and creating opportunities where employees can thrive!

Do you have a passion for managing budgets, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations? Our delivery management professionals are involved in project delivery from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, and closeout. Each phase requires strong attention to detail while communicating with internal and external stakeholders. Do you have a proven track record in managing goals and objectives? Consider joining our team and work with peers who have vast industry knowledge and experience solving complex problems.

Kleinfelder is seeking a Project Controls Manager to join our Mountain Area team in Salt Lake City, UT or Denver, CO. This person will supervise a growing project controls team while successfully providing project controls on a portfolio of projects.

The Project Controls Manager performs tasks in support of project budget, schedule, and reporting activities. This position assists Kleinfelder's project teams with the development and organization of project data such as fee estimates, earned value, status reports, cost reports, backlog projections, and resource needs.

Experience: Advanced skills in Excel and advanced spreadsheet functions preferred. Ability to communicate effectively. Demonstrate team collaboration, communication, organization, and self-prioritization skills.

• Supervise the project controls team including providing direction to team members, leading meetings, assigning workloads, and identifying developmental opportunities.
• Work directly with Project Managers, Business Managers, and Project Control Specialists to support the execution of large-scale delivery projects from proposal to closeout phases.
• Work with Project Managers to create Project Management Plans for project team application.
• Assist in the creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), schedules, earned value, and other project documents.
• Provide support for intermediate planning and scheduling for baseline, resources, and progress tracking needs.
• Implement and execute proper controls to proactively support, monitor, communicate budget, actual status, forecast costs, labor hours, and quantities for projects.
• Prepare and issue cost analysis narratives including recommendations for corrective actions that are used by the project team to manage the work.
• Prepare earned value-based reports, including earned value curves.
• Support Project Managers, Business Managers, and Project Control Specialists in contract management/compliance, invoice management, document control, client coordination, and interaction with AR Collections Specialist team.
• Develop and maintain periodic status reports to keep management and/or client informed on the project progress.
• Implement and monitor project document structure to ensure compliance, logical tier creation, and coordination of project files through the administrative team.

• Acquiring Information:
  Consults with others on problems and activities
• Collects information from a range of sources to assess and guide job activities
• Asks effective questions to obtain information to perform job effectively
• Demonstrating Initiative:
  Acts on his/her own without being prompted
• Able to resolve problems independently
• Prioritize and Organizing Work:
  Allocates time and attention based on what is most important to achieve key goals and objectives
• Approaches work in an organized manner
• Effectively manages tasks, information, and requests

Education: Associate degree from a two-year college in Finance, Business, Project Management or equivalent combination of education and experience required. BS in Finance or Accounting preferred.
Experience: Minimum of 8 years related experience including project and accounting experience.

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