Assistant Project Controls Manager

Cumming Group•San Diego, CA

21h•$80,900 - $107,900

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 delivering K–12 and higher education facilities. It focuses on project cost controls across the project life cycle, including budgeting, forecasting, cost and schedule analysis, change management, reporting, and financial closeout. 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 EAC meetings to validate and review estimates at completion and justify variances.
Assist the Bond Program Controls Manager with cost variance analysis, trend identification, and mitigation of potential budget impacts.
Monitor identified trends and mitigation plans against actual performance over time.
Review budgets and expenditures across projects with various funding sources.
Collaborate with schedulers to assess cost and schedule performance, overruns or underruns, project-duration issues, and spending variances against plan.
Review and analyze monthly cost 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 and assess their budget and timetable impacts.
Review task order requests, change orders, and amendments for budget availability, accurate cost coding, and reporting.
Ensure client policies, procedures, and plans for cost management of capital projects with multiple funding sources are implemented.
Allocate and monitor ETCs when required, including for PBA and change orders.
Develop standard and ad hoc reports for internal and external stakeholders.
Develop reports supporting budgeting, cost control, auditing, and asset tracking using systems and databases including UII, Proliance, and DELTEK.
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 the Construction Manager 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 support proper cost accounting.
Assist with management-directed budget and cost reporting.
Collect and review draft PBAs with Project Managers for monthly submission, including cost verification of previous amendments.
Support weekly and monthly cost and status reporting for the project team.
Enter data for budget and forecast impacts.
Develop and maintain change-management logs according to standardized processes and procedures.
Travel to offsite project locations as required.
Perform other job-related duties or projects as assigned.