Project Controls Lead Analyst - Renewables

Black & Veatch Family of Companies•Orlando, FL

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Project Controls Lead Analyst is a lead-level position assigned to Planning, Cost Management, Project Controls Management, Project Controls Execution Leadership, or a combination of these functions. With minimal supervision, the role independently applies advanced project controls techniques and analyses, may handle commercial issues, and provides leadership and guidance to less experienced project controls personnel. The role leads project controls functions or teams, influences internal and external clients, achieves accurate forecasting, proactively addresses and escalates issues, and leads proposal efforts. The position may involve office and construction-site work. Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days, at the manager’s discretion and based on job performance and work assignments. Occasional travel of up to 25% may be required. The role is a lead-person capacity and does not have management responsibility for the people to whom it provides work direction.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (four-year) and at least eight years of relevant cost control or planning and scheduling experience; alternatively, no four-year bachelor’s degree is required with at least ten years of relevant cost control or planning and scheduling experience in a home office or field office.
Ability to complete applicable pre-employment onboarding requirements, which may include criminal/civil background checks, drug screening, and motor vehicle records searches.
Office work requires sitting, talking, hearing, keyboard input, and seeing.
Construction-site work may require standing, kneeling, bending, stooping, moving, and walking long distances in confined, cluttered, or uneven areas; seeing and hearing naturally or with correction; working at heights above five feet; climbing and maintaining balance on stairs, ladders, and scaffolds; and working shifts up to 12 hours.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or local equivalent in Engineering or Construction Management.
Expertise in scheduling forensics, as required by the business unit.

Responsibilities

Lead project controls functions or teams and positively influence internal and external clients.
Maintain a high level of forecasting accuracy; proactively address and escalate issues.
Lead proposal efforts.
Lead cost control teams on complex projects, including cost reporting and forecasting, quantity tracking, change management, and risk analysis.
Review contract language and provide feedback on contractual cost-control requirements.
Lead project controls schedule teams in planning and scheduling, including float analysis, earned value, startup planning, and constructability.
Review contract language and provide feedback on contractual schedule requirements.
Lead and develop a team of project controls professionals, and lead planning and cost control functions with minimal supervision.
Establish tools, processes, and operating rhythms to identify and escalate issues effectively.
Collaborate with management to identify issues and trends and secure project management support.
Facilitate risk and change management discussions and support department initiatives.
Lead implementation of project controls procedures and tools and provide transparent project-health visibility to the business.
Escalate project issues to project controls leadership.
Support administration of project reviews and resolution of resulting actions.
Identify and confirm successful staffing of projects and proposals.
Ensure staff meet expectations, provide timely feedback, and offer learning and development opportunities.