Senior Project Control Specialist - SR Business Analyst

UDR Consulting Inc • Aiken, SC

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About The Position

UDR is seeking a Senior Project Control Specialist - SR Business Analyst to support its customer at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. The role is responsible for organizing, developing, analyzing, and maintaining project controls, financial analysis, or estimating applications used to monitor objectives and prepare status and management reports. These reports identify variances in work execution strategies and recommend solutions. The position helps management maintain cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of complex projects or work activities.

Under limited supervision, the specialist performs moderately complex planning and scheduling activities. This includes developing and maintaining integrated, logic-driven, resource-loaded schedules across short-, mid-, and long-range planning horizons; establishing schedule logic and milestones; analyzing performance and variances; recommending corrective actions; and improving planning technology and methodology. The role provides guidance and oversight to others, regularly interfaces with management, and may lead schedule reviews or planning and scheduling for a large project, facility, department, or program. The individual will perform walkdowns and support Savannah River Nuclear Projects with scheduling, trending, and cost.

Requirements

• One of the following education and experience combinations: a master's degree in business, construction management, a technical or engineering field, or a related area and 2 years of practical experience; a bachelor's degree in one of these areas and 5 years of practical experience; an associate degree and 8 years of practical experience; or a high school diploma and 12 years of relevant experience.
• Strong personal computer skills.
• Considerable proficiency using automated accounting, budgeting, cost management, and estimating systems.
• Working knowledge of project management and tactical-level cost and schedule control.
• Knowledge of operations, maintenance, or project startup and construction.
• For the estimating specialty, demonstrated skill in conceptual estimating; coordination with technical personnel; interfacing with engineers; knowledge of field construction techniques, labor, and equipment requirements.
• Ability to apply concepts and methods to quantify the cost impacts of work conditions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with PeopleSoft, P6, OAS, and COBRA.
• SRNS experience.

Responsibilities

• Organize, develop, analyze, and maintain project controls, financial analysis, or estimating applications.
• Prepare status and management reports identifying variances in work execution strategies and recommending solutions.
• Support cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of complex projects or work activities.
• Develop, analyze, implement, and maintain integrated, logic-driven, resource-loaded schedules for short-, mid-, and long-range planning.
• Formulate schedule logic to meet baseline milestones and award fee objectives.
• Analyze schedule performance, progress, and trends, and recommend corrective actions to address potential problems or constraints.
• Review planning technology and methodology and recommend improvements or alternatives to optimize schedules and resources.
• Develop project milestone schedules and help establish milestones for scheduled activities, obtaining management concurrence where necessary.
• Analyze schedule variances against the baseline and recommend corrective action to management.
• Provide supervision, guidance, oversight, and monitoring for planning and scheduling activities, including essential or critical planning activities.
• Interface regularly with all levels of management.
• Lead schedule review meetings or take primary responsibility for the scheduling portion of a division, department, or project Plan of the Day Meeting.
• Provide guidance, instruction, and rules for effective scheduling functions in the assigned area.
• Potentially lead planning and scheduling for a large project, facility, department, or program.
• Perform walkdowns and support Savannah River Nuclear Projects with schedule, trending, and cost.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Medical, dental, life, vision, and disability insurance.
• Pre-tax 401(k) retirement account with company matching contributions and 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning on day one.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior