Project Controls Specialist

NANA Regional Corporation • Oak Ridge, TN

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About The Position

Akima Infrastructure Services, LLC (AIS), is actively seeking individuals who can contribute to national security within the project management and business services fields as part of our staff augmentation team supporting the Department of Energy (DOE) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). AIS has an established history of contributing to the success of our customer's mission. Successful candidates will be employees of AIS, a premier government contractor charged with employing highly motivated and well-qualified personnel who can advance the missions of the ORNL in Oak Ridge, TN. Though employed by AIS, the employee will take day-to-day direction from technical personnel employed directly by the research laboratory. Pay, benefits, Human resource, and employment management functions are provided by AIS. Qualified applicants must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre-employment requirements including any required physicals, drug screen, and/or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the DOE. To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today!

Requirements

• BS/BA in project or construction management, business, engineering or equivalent.
• Five years of experience successfully performing project controls duties for research-based project(s) within the DOE or Department of Defense.
• Five years of project experience working within an EVMS environment compliant with EIA-748.
• Solid understanding of project controls best practices regarding scope, time, cost, change and risk management.
• Complete understanding of DOE Order 413.3b and EIA-748 compliant EVM.
• Significant experience with Primavera and EVM cost processors.
• Advanced experience in the use of SharePoint, Cobra, Microsoft Projects and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Advanced skills applying Earned Value Management (EVM) principles and processes.
• Experience interpreting, organizing, and analyzing data from multiple sources.
• Experience performing statistical analysis, schedule monitoring and operations to disseminate, create, and present highly detailed and complex financial information to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated advanced verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to establish and maintain highly productive working relationships.
• Demonstrated organizational, recordkeeping, and coordination skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on multiple time-constrained projects.
• Experience evaluating and analyzing complex projects, identify issues, and propose solutions to problems.

Responsibilities

• Advise the Project Manager and/or Project Director for large line-item projects.
• Work with the project controls lead and control account managers (CAMs) to develop and maintain Project Work Breakdown Structure and dictionary.
• Develop and maintain summary and detailed, logic driven, resource loaded schedules.
• Create summary and detailed cost estimates.
• Integrate actual costs and accrual.
• Identify risks and perform risk analysis.
• Manage change control.
• Provide day-to-day support to the project with schedule and cost maintenance and status, forecasting and conducting what-if analysis.
• Assist in generating monthly reports on project status and performance, including analysis on schedule performance index (SPI)/cost performance index (CPI), variance explanation and critical path and near critical paths.
• Attend technical and management meetings to understand and report status accurately.
• Perform ad-hoc activities as directed by the project controls lead.
• Support the CAMs and project management staff in preparing for various project reviews, including internal and external project status reviews.
• Develop, present, and reinforce project management processes and systems training for all applicable project staff, specifically the project CAMs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and competitive pay.
• Growth opportunities.
• Excellent retirement options.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree