Assistant Project Controls Manager

Cumming Management Group•San Diego, CA

About The Position

Cumming Group is hiring an Assistant Project Controls Specialist in San Diego, California, to work in its Education project sector. The role supports project, program, and client leadership in delivering educational facilities for K-12 and higher education institutions. It focuses on project budget and forecast monitoring, cost and schedule analysis, reporting, change management, and financial controls across capital projects with multiple funding sources. The position may require travel to offsite project locations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or a related field.
3–5 years of professional experience in program and/or project controls on a construction program.
Experience working through the entire project life cycle.
Knowledge of theories, principles, and practices of cost and schedule management, earned value management, change management, forecasting, and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

Assist in monitoring project budgets and forecasts in accordance with approved standard operating procedures.
Participate in monthly Estimate at Completion (EAC) meetings to validate and review current EACs and provide justification for variances.
Assist the Bond Program Controls Manager with cost variance analysis, trend identification, and mitigation of potential budget impacts; monitor trends and mitigation plans against actual performance.
Review and analyze budgets and expenditures across projects and funding sources.
Collaborate with schedulers to assess cost and schedule performance, including overruns or underruns, project duration issues, and planned versus actual spending over time.
Review and analyze monthly cost reports and progress reports.
Review staffing plans, identify excessive peaks or potential cost impacts, and recommend peak leveling.
Provide cost coding and budget verification for contract change orders and amendments, assessing budget and timetable impacts.
Review task order requests, change orders, and amendments for budget availability, accurate cost coding, and reporting.
Help ensure implementation of client policies, procedures, and plans for cost management of capital projects with multiple funding sources.
Allocate and monitor Estimate to Complete (ETC) amounts when required, including for PBA and change orders.
Develop standard and ad hoc reports for internal and external stakeholders, including reports supporting budgeting, cost control, auditing, and asset tracking.
Use systems and databases including UII, Proliance, DELTEK, and other Program Management Office systems to support reporting.
Create budget transfers and produce financial closeouts.
Work with Project Managers on budget issues, including verifying budgets for additional task orders for IOR, LOR, and additional services.
Assist Project Managers with contract amendment exhibits.
Coordinate with Project Managers and Construction Managers to establish and maintain data coding structures, project control tools, and quality data for budgets, contracts, change orders, trends, and actual costs.
Verify charge codes for purchase requisitions and change orders to ensure proper cost accounting.
Assist with management-directed budget and cost reporting.
Collect and review draft PBAs with Project Managers for monthly submission, including verifying costs for previous amendments.
Support weekly and monthly cost and status reports for the project team.
Enter data for budget and forecast impacts.
Develop and maintain change management logs in accordance with standardized processes and procedures.
Travel to offsite project locations as required.
Perform other job-related duties or projects as assigned.