Intermediate Project Controls Specialist

ATS Automation•Orange Township, OH

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About The Position

ATS Industrial Automation is expanding its nuclear division into the United States, building on more than 20 years of experience delivering automation for nuclear projects. The Intermediate Project Controls Specialist creates and maintains project schedules and a valid master production schedule (MPS), collaborating with the Project Manager and leaders across departments to assess progress, identify issues, and facilitate solutions. The role prepares weekly forecasted activity reports to help departments plan resources and meet project deliverables. It also supports production control, procurement, material coordination, work-order issuance, and schedule and cost forecasting.

Requirements

Post-secondary education, including but not limited to Materials Management, or equivalent, with practical working knowledge of MRP, shop-floor control, or manufacturing-control systems.
Three to five years of scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment.
Experience with computerized database systems.
Microsoft Project and Excel proficiency.
Understanding of common business practices relating to materials management, production control, logistics, and procurement.
Desire to learn and ability to adapt to various situations.
High degree of professionalism.
Strong analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Primavera and Planview.

Responsibilities

Update the Primavera or designated project schedule biweekly, or more frequently as required by contract.
Generate schedule changes to maintain visibility into work in progress and accurately predict delivery dates.
Use Primavera or a designated system to automate collection, manipulation, and distribution of information.
Assess pending change order requests (CORs) for impacts on project timing, required resources, and project criticality.
Implement signed CORs in the project schedule and verify timing, resource requirements, and project criticality.
Create and maintain a valid master production schedule weekly for departmental review of divisional loading, overseen by the Senior Project Control Specialist.
Determine purchased and manufactured material due dates using project schedules and information from Sales and the project team.
Provide production control with sufficient information to issue due-dated work orders to the shop floor.
Coordinate work-order issuance and kitting to meet the schedule.
Use benchmark labour hours to predict and plan manpower requirements by job classification and identify capacity constraints.
Work with the project procurement lead and Purchasing to verify critical material deliveries.
Formally and daily check floor delivery status to enable proactive corrective action.
Participate in weekly Production and Loading Meetings, identify issues, constraints, and promise dates, and provide enough detail for the Project Manager to communicate with the customer.
Run or review MRP reports and finite schedules to generate the plant schedule and vendor releases.
Communicate scheduling or cost-forecasting shortfalls to the Project Manager.
Perform business activities in compliance with the ATS Code of Business Conduct and the highest ethical standards.
Follow health and safety rules and procedures.