Project Control Specialist

Contract Role | Project Control Specialist in Rogersville TN

Duration: 1 year contract with possible extension

Pay Range: $60 - 70/hour on w2

• Develop and implement standard methods for project performance monitoring, reporting, analysis, trend assessment, scheduling, and estimating.
• Facilitate programs to ensure establishment and analysis of specific operational and process improvement plans used for goal setting, project cost and benefit estimates, performance indicators/targets, benchmarking, baselining, and trending.
• Assist in the development and approval of project contracts and revisions thereto.
• Prepare/obtain approval for Contractor Work Authorizations (CWA) and revisions thereto.
• Monitor expenditures for usage trends, issues, etc.
• Lead/manage the process ensuring the integrity of the process, resolving pending/outstanding requests, reconciling encumbrances and pending tasks with financial systems as required.
• Provide project cost/schedule performance analyses and recommendations to improve project cost/schedule performance to applicable project managers/engineers.
• Perform cost/benefit analyses and enter data into the Project Justification System database.
• Prepare project approval packages and all associated documentation.
• Assist project managers/engineers and line organizations in developing project budgets and establishing project reporting structures.
• Monitor and forecast performance in comparison to performance plan and long-range project plan objectives.
• Assist project managers in developing project work sequence structures that ensure effective control of risk management issues, efficient resource allocation, and critical path identification.
• Ensure project milestones and resource needs (man-hours and dollars) are loaded into the applicable cost and schedule tool(s).
• Using cost and scheduling tools, levelize resources for all projects
• Conduct project schedule review meetings and scheduling sessions during scoping workshops
• Conduct special studies, for example: project forecasting, O&M projects, etc.
• Research, write, and submit all fixed assets accounting classification requests for formal determination of capital projects.
• Provide written project closure notifications and do root cause analysis to explain project cost, schedule, and performance variances.