Principal Business Analyst – Project Controls

COMPA Industries • Aiken, SC

8d • $80 - $90 • Onsite

About The Position

COMPA Industries is searching for qualified candidates for a Principal Business Analyst – Project Controls position supporting Savannah River Nuclear Solutions at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. The Principal Business Analyst – Project Controls will develop, implement, maintain, and manage project-controls, financial-analysis, scheduling, and estimating applications used to support complex projects and programs. Working under very limited supervision, the selected candidate will provide management with accurate cost, schedule, forecast, and performance information throughout the project lifecycle. The role requires an experienced professional who can independently analyze project performance, identify emerging risks, explain variance drivers, recommend mitigation plans, and provide technical direction to other project-controls personnel.

Requirements

• Senior-level project controls experience supporting complex projects or programs.
• Primavera P6 experience.
• COBRA experience.
• Strong experience with cost and schedule baseline development.
• Strong experience with integrated planning and scheduling.
• Strong experience with cost control and financial analysis.
• Strong experience with forecasting and spend plans.
• Strong experience with work breakdown structures.
• Strong experience with variance and trend analysis.
• Strong experience with change management.
• Strong experience with project-performance reporting.
• Strong experience with automated accounting, cost-management, scheduling, and estimating systems.
• Experience with Site Business systems or comparable enterprise project-controls systems.
• Experience in operations, maintenance, construction, or project startup environments.
• Master’s degree in business, construction management, engineering, a technical discipline, or related field and five years of practical experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and seven years of practical experience.
• Associate degree and 11 years of practical experience.
• High school diploma and 15 years of relevant experience.
• Professional Primavera P6 experience.
• Professional COBRA experience.
• Senior-level project-controls experience.
• Expert proficiency with automated accounting, cost-management, scheduling, and estimating systems.
• Practical experience using Site Business systems or comparable enterprise systems.
• Strong personal-computer and data-analysis skills.
• Cost and schedule baseline development and maintenance.
• Milestone schedule and work breakdown structure development.
• Forecasting and spend-plan development.
• Cost and schedule variance analysis.
• Change-control and baseline-management experience.
• Financial analysis and project reporting.
• Experience integrating cost and schedule information.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management and tactical cost and schedule control.
• Knowledge of operations, maintenance, project startup, or construction.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to communicate project risks, performance, and mitigation plans to management.
• Ability to lead and train project-controls personnel.
• Working knowledge of CAS and FAR principles.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Previous DOE, NNSA, Savannah River Site, nuclear, weapons-program, or major capital-project experience.
• Advanced Primavera P6 and COBRA experience.
• Earned Value Management System experience.
• Experience with integrated cost and schedule baselines.
• Experience with baseline change proposals and formal change control.
• PeopleSoft or Savannah River Site Business systems experience.
• Experience preparing cost-performance reports, forecasts, and estimate-at-completion projections.
• Experience leading project cost or schedule review meetings.
• Experience supporting classified or highly regulated projects.
• An active DOE “L” or “Q” clearance held within the previous two years.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cost and schedule baselines, milestone schedules, work breakdown structures, forecasts, resource plans, and spend plans.
• Develop and maintain logic-driven schedules using Primavera P6.
• Use COBRA to support cost integration, earned value analysis, forecasting, performance measurement, and reporting.
• Analyze cost and schedule performance against approved plans and baselines.
• Identify variance drivers, project risks, funding limitations, and adverse trends.
• Develop corrective actions, mitigation plans, and recovery strategies.
• Participate in project cost reviews, schedule reviews, forecast meetings, and management presentations.
• Develop and implement change-management processes for engineering and construction work scopes.
• Prepare monthly financial reports, forecasts, spend plans, and project-performance analyses.
• Perform variance, statistical, scenario, and trend analyses.
• Support costing-rate development, budgeting, and overhead or service-pool analysis.
• Maintain applicable financial information in PeopleSoft or comparable systems.
• Define requirements and develop models for complex business and project-controls systems.
• Develop test plans and support implementation of system enhancements.
• Initiate special studies to resolve complex financial, project, and business issues.
• Translate management direction into practical operating plans.
• Provide leadership, technical direction, mentoring, and training to project-controls personnel.
• Review project-controls deliverables for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
• Apply Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulation principles.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed