Senior Project Controls Specialist-Planner Scheduler

Pinnacle Specialty Group, Inc.•Aiken, SC

About The Position

The Senior Project Controls Specialist is responsible for organizing, developing, analyzing, and maintaining project controls, financial analysis, or estimating applications used to monitor objectives. The role prepares status and management reports that identify variances in work execution strategies and recommend solutions, enabling cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of complex projects or work activities. Under limited supervision, the position performs moderately complex planning and scheduling activities. It develops, analyzes, implements, and maintains complex, logic-driven, integrated, resource-loaded schedules across short-, mid-, and long-range planning horizons. The role formulates schedule logic to support baseline milestones and award fee objectives, evaluates schedule performance and trends, and recommends corrective actions to address potential problems or constraints. It also reviews planning technology and methodology and recommends improvements to maximize use of schedules and resources. The specialist develops project milestone schedules, helps establish milestones for specific activities, and obtains management concurrence where necessary. The role analyzes variances from schedule baselines and recommends corrective action, provides guidance and oversight to others in planning and scheduling, and regularly interfaces with all levels of management. It may lead schedule review meetings or take primary responsibility for scheduling in a division, department, project, or Plan of the Day meeting. The role may also lead planning and scheduling for a large project, facility, department, or program. The position supports Savannah River Tritium Enterprise (SRTE) project scheduling, trending, and cost activities. The individual is required to perform walkdowns.

Requirements

A master's degree in business, construction management, a technical or engineering field, or a related area, plus 2 years of practical experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience described in the posting.
Equivalent education and experience options include a bachelor's degree in a relevant area 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 and understanding of project management and tactical-level cost and schedule control.
Knowledge of operations, maintenance, project startup, or construction.
For the estimating specialty: demonstrated skill in conceptual estimating and coordination with technical personnel.
For the estimating specialty: ability to interface with engineers and knowledge of field construction techniques, labor, and equipment requirements.
For the estimating specialty: 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.
Prepare status and management reports identifying variances in work execution strategies and recommending solutions.
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 performance, progress, and trends; recommend corrective actions to address or mitigate potential problems and constraints.
Review planning technology and methodology and recommend improvements or alternatives to maximize use of department schedules and resources.
Develop project milestone schedules to establish optimum conditions and effective resource utilization.
Help establish milestones for specific scheduled activities and obtain 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 and monitoring of essential or critical planning activities.
Interface regularly with all levels of management.
Lead schedule review meetings or take primary responsibility for scheduling in a division, department, project, or Plan of the Day meeting.
Provide guidance, instruction, and rules for effective scheduling within the assigned area.
Support SRTE project scheduling, trending, and cost activities.
Perform walkdowns.