Senior Project Control Specialist (Senior Business Analyst)

Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.•Aiken, SC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Longenecker & Associates (L&A), a Geosyntec Company, is seeking a Senior Project Control Specialist to support work at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions in Aiken, South Carolina. The position supports Savannah River Nuclear Projects with scheduling, trending, and cost control. It organizes, develops, analyzes, and maintains project controls, financial analysis, or estimating applications used to monitor objectives, prepare status and management reports, identify variances in work execution, and recommend solutions. The role provides management with 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, including development and maintenance of complex, logic-driven, integrated, resource-loaded schedules for short-, mid-, and long-range planning. The role analyzes schedule performance and variances, recommends corrective actions, improves planning methods and resource utilization, and supports milestone planning and management reviews. It also provides guidance and oversight to others, interfaces with management, and may lead planning and scheduling for a large project, facility, department, or program. The individual is required to perform walkdowns. The anticipated work schedule is Monday through Thursday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Due to federal contract security requirements, the role requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to pass a federal background investigation to secure and maintain a DOE Q security clearance. Health and safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing are required.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience with PeopleSoft, P6, OAS, and COBRA.
U.S. citizenship, required due to federal contract security requirements.
Ability to pass a federal background investigation and secure and maintain a DOE Q security clearance.
Completion of health and safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing.
Education and experience may be met through one of the following: 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 those fields and 5 years of practical experience; an associate's degree and 8 years of practical experience; or a high school diploma and 12 years of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Savannah River Site Nuclear Solutions (SRNS).
Possession of an active DOE L or Q clearance within the past two years.

Responsibilities

Organize, develop, analyze, and maintain project controls, financial analysis, or estimating applications used to monitor objectives and prepare status and management reports.
Identify variances in work execution strategies and recommend solutions.
Provide cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of complex projects or work activities.
Develop, analyze, implement, and maintain complex, logic-driven, integrated, resource-loaded schedules for short-, mid-, and long-range planning.
Formulate schedule logic to support baseline milestones and award fee objectives.
Analyze schedule progress and trends, identify potential problems or constraints, and recommend corrective actions.
Review planning technology and methodology and recommend improvements or alternatives to maximize schedule and resource utilization.
Develop project milestone schedules and help establish milestones for specific scheduled activities, obtaining management concurrence where necessary.
Analyze variances from schedule baselines and recommend corrective action to management.
Provide supervision and guidance to others in planning and scheduling, including oversight of 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.
Perform walkdowns.
Support Savannah River Nuclear Projects with schedule, trending, and cost.