Senior Project Controls Business Analyst- Planner Scheduler

UDR Consulting Inc • Aiken, SC

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About The Position

UDR is seeking a Senior Project Controls Business Analyst to support its customer at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. The role supports Savannah River Tritium Enterprise projects with scheduling, trending, and cost activities.

Under limited supervision, the position organizes, develops, analyzes, and maintains project-controls, financial-analysis, or estimating applications used to monitor objectives and prepare status and management reports. It provides management with cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of complex projects or work activities.

The position performs moderately complex planning and scheduling, including developing and maintaining integrated, logic-driven, resource-loaded schedules across short-, mid-, and long-range planning horizons. It analyzes schedule performance and baseline variances, recommends corrective actions, improves planning methods and technology, and supports effective resource utilization. The role also provides guidance and oversight to others, interfaces regularly with management, and may lead scheduling for a large project, facility, department, or program. Walkdowns are required.

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's 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.
• Ability to perform the duties and activities associated with planning and scheduling, including analyzing schedules and recommending corrective actions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with PeopleSoft, P6, OAS, and COBRA.
• SRNS experience.
• An active DOE L or Q clearance within the past two years.
• 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; and ability to apply concepts and methods to quantify the cost impacts of work conditions.

Responsibilities

• Organize, develop, analyze, and maintain project-controls, financial-analysis, or estimating applications used to monitor objectives.
• Prepare status and management reports identifying variances in work execution strategy and recommending solutions.
• Maintain 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 support baseline milestones and award-fee objectives.
• Analyze schedule progress, trends, and baseline variances, and recommend corrective actions to address potential problems or constraints.
• 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 scheduled activities, obtaining management concurrence where necessary.
• Provide supervision and guidance to others in planning and scheduling, including oversight and monitoring 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 within the assigned area.
• Perform walkdowns.
• Support Savannah River Tritium Enterprise projects with scheduling, trending, and cost activities.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Pre-tax 401(k) retirement account with company matching contributions and 100% vesting for eligible participants beginning on day one.
• Multiple individual and family benefit options.

What This Job Offers

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