Project Controls Specialist

Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.•Albuquerque, NM

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Longenecker & Associates (L&A), a Geosyntec Company, is seeking a motivated Project Controls Specialist to contribute to their mission supporting work at Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque, NM. Geosyntec is an international engineering and consulting firm known for its technical leadership and client service. L&A is a trusted partner enabling critical missions across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex for over 35 years, providing high-caliber staff and experts for nuclear security and environmental remediation. The MESA Project Planning and Controls team delivers specialized expertise to technical programs needing advanced project planning and controls oversight. This role involves embedding within project teams, building partnerships with stakeholders, and providing insightful analysis and decision support for national security missions. The Microsystems Engineering, Science, and Applications (MESA) Project Planning and Controls team is looking for a proactive and skilled Project Planning and Controls Specialist to collaborate with technical leads, managers, and the business team to develop and manage cost plans and schedules. The role requires partnering with technical leads for variance analysis and leveraging strong communication skills to influence project decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Project Management, Accounting, Finance or relevant discipline or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
Five (5) + years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
Knowledge of the Nuclear Weapons Product Realization Process (Systems and components)
Experience in schedule development and maintenance including building and updating project timelines, tracking milestones and deliverables, and using Primavera P6.
Experience to resource load to enable accurate allocation and leveling of resources, ensuring realistic schedules, cost control, risk mitigation, and effective project execution.
Experience with Earned Value Management principles
Active DOE Q clearance
Due to federal contract security requirements, candidates must be able to successfully pass a federal background investigation to secure and maintain DOE Q security clearance if required.
Due to federal contract security requirements, this position requires U.S. Citizenship.
Successful candidates will be able to perform the essential functions of the job with reasonable accommodation.
Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated success in collaborating with stakeholders to provide solutions and deliver actionable insights to technical leadership through cost and schedule analysis.
Proven ability to prioritize and manage workload efficiently while meeting tight deadlines and adapting to changing priorities.

Responsibilities

Analyze, prepare, validate, and maintain cost estimates, detail baseline budgets, work package agreements, and monthly cost variance reports.
Provide detailed analysis and reporting of project status within an established system of project controls.
Analyze forecasts to identify issues before they become problems, enabling projects to react timely and develop appropriate solutions.
Work with the project technical leads and project manager to execute project schedule development, project monitoring and control, and integrated change control.
Partner with project managers, technical leads, and managers to make recommendations to influence key decision makers within the scope of project controls (work breakdown structure, schedule, and budget / cost).
Understand the scope of work sufficiently to build and status schedules, generate budget profiles, and support project teams.
Analyze, compile, and present project specific data from a variety of sources to meet on-demand needs.
Research, assemble, and evaluate project information or data and recommend sound, practical solutions to project issues.