Project Controls, Senior

Overview

Modular Mission Critical™ is the manufacturing campus for M.C. Dean’s complex, modular product line for datacenters and critical infrastructure. Located just north of Richmond, VA, this site is growing fast serving customers worldwide. Important openings include assemblers for our production lines and engineers and designers for products and continuous improvement. Join M.C. Dean’s more than 9,000 employees around the world making an impact through innovations in power and technology.

Our people are passionate about innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment for employees to build long-term careers.

The Project Controls, Senior works with project leaders and project teams to analyze project data and define project schedules to ensure all project milestones are met. Takes ownership of driving the development and maintenance of all project artifacts that are required to ensure effective short-term and long-term staff forecasting, scheduling, and controls for the project. They will work with the project team to ensure all resources and skills needed based on the project tasks and schedule are recorded and tracked from baselines to update to closure of the project.

The Project Controls specialist is responsible for configuring their project’s internal project performance tracking database to accurately update and status the project schedule. They are responsible for analyzing both the internal and external schedules based on these performance updates to present opportunities and deficiencies to all project stakeholders.

• Engaging on the project early in the project lifecycle (no later than at award) to fully understand the scope of the project, project budget, and key milestones.
• Assisting the Project Leader in developing a Work Breakdown Structure for the project with resources assigned to tasks (resource loaded) to establish a baseline resource plan
• Managing the scheduling of resources on the project to maintain the baseline project schedule.
• Analyzing real-time project data and creating baseline vs actual reporting of resources
• Measuring and analyzing schedule variances and defining and executing remedies to address variances.
• Driving the development and maintenance of all project artifacts that are required to ensure effective short-term and long-term staff forecasting for the project, including but not limited to:
• A Product Dominant WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) that is aligned with the corporate and emerging SBU WBS. The WBS should list the alignment of staff by function, system, subsystem and technical discipline for directly responsible individuals.
• A Functional Organization Chart(s) that is color-coded based on the corporate color-coded functional designations and meets all the approved attributes of the Staff Forecasting Best Known Way organization chart for both an Initial (20%-50%) Org Chart and a Peak Manpower Org Chart where resources and skills needed can be tracked.
• A Short-Term Staff Management System that measures the actual staffing against the defined baseline (B0) staffing plan. and meets all the approved attributes of the Staffing Forecasting Best Known Way short-term staff management system, including a plan vs actual manpower curve or bar chart
• A Long-Term Staffing Forecast that defines the future staffing requirements and HR staffing actions needed to meet ongoing and future project resource demand and meets all of the approved attributes of the Staff Forecasting Best Known Way long-term staffing forecast, including a 4 week and 12 week lookahead (updated weekly or bi-weekly depending on the pace of change of the project).
• A Job Connect Hierarchy that tethers the staffing forecast and schedule to Job Connect.
• Managing the integration of data from multiple company systems to create the above artifacts and analyzing the data to draw insights around staff forecasting to share with project leadership
• Reviewing the project schedule with the General Contractor if requested by project leadership.
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