Project Controls Specialist

Lindahl Reed•West Mifflin, PA

7h•$120,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

Lindahl Reed is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Project Control Specialist to support Deactivation and Decommissioning (D&D) projects for Department of Energy (DOE) sites. This role will play a key part in project financial planning, performance tracking, and compliance, ensuring delivery teams stay on schedule, within scope, and on budget. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment and possess a solid understanding of federal contracting requirements, project finance, and performance reporting. The Project Control Specialist should have the ability to work well with internal and external customers. This position will report directly to the Project Manager.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a DOE related field from an accredited university. Five (5) years’ experience of performing project controls tasks described above may be accepted in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree.
At least five (5) years of experience in Project Controls in developing and implementing an Earned Value Management System (EVMS), experience with EVMS standards and tools, monitoring and evaluating contractor/subcontractor performance and performing monthly EVMS analysis and preparing required client reports.
Proficiency with Primavera Scheduling Software.
Ability to evaluate, monitor, and participate in detailed performance analysis of schedule management systems.
Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook). DOE environmental remediation project management experience, preferred.
Level I: Minimum education and experience as described above.
Level II: Minimum education, as described above, and at least eight (8) years of experience in Project Controls in developing and implementing an Earn Value Management system, experience with EVMS standards and tools, monitoring and evaluating contractor/subcontractor performance and performing monthly EVMS analysis and preparing required client reports.
Level III: Minimum education, as described above, at least eleven (11) years of experience in Project Controls in developing and implementing an Earn Value Management system, experience with EVMS standards and tools, monitoring and evaluating contractor/subcontractor performance and performing monthly EVMS analysis and preparing required client reports.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security or clearance badge.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
DOE experience.
Project Management Professional Certification.

Responsibilities

Provide assistance to Department of Energy (DOE) personnel to maintain the Federal Baseline, control and make revisions to the approved schedule and the associated cost impacts related to federal changes.
Schedule assessments, including all planned work activities, associated durations, and inter-dependencies with other project work to ascertain cost and schedule impacts to the critical path associated with proposed federal changes and to judge for reasonableness.
Evaluation of the current approved federal schedule (work activities along with their associated durations, required resources, predecessor, and successor activities) and cost as planned prior to the changes requested by the FPD’s.
Provide project management support including analysis of monthly Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) performance data including schedule variances and cost variances and identify trends.
Report and update schedule status, report schedule variances, conduct critical path and float analysis, resource load schedule and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), maintain WBS data dictionary, and assess schedule risk using schedule and schedule-related metrics to monitor progress, and track and document schedule impacts.
The Contractor may be required to monitor progress, track and document schedule impacts using current versions of Microsoft Office like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Primavera software, as necessary.
Identify, review, and analyze actual or potential scheduling and planning and execution problems.
Identify and develop program management policies and procedures to support DOE.
Annually perform formal surveillances per DOE Order 413.3B and ANSI/EIA-748B as planned for the contractor baselines.
Support DOE with any external reviews for Capital Asset Projects. This includes: Reviewing the federal baseline schedule and other support documents to ensure integration (e.g., Project Execution Plan, IPT Charter, Risk Management Plan).
Support DOE with any HQ IPR Reviews of Operations Activities. This includes: Reviewing the contractor’s baseline schedule and other support documents to ensure integration (e.g., Project Management Plan, Project Execution Plan, Basis of Estimate and WBS Dictionary, Staffing Analysis, and Risk Management Plan).
May be required to support tasks and deliverables to include the following: Integrating Contractor’s working schedule with the approved Federal Baseline. Updating Federal Baseline to incorporate changes with DOE’s approval. Providing DOE a written analysis of the Contractor’s Working Schedule on a monthly Basis.