Sr. Project Controls Cost and Scheduling Specialist

Renuke•Charlotte, NC

4d•Onsite

About The Position

ReNuke Services is seeking a Sr. Project Controls Cost and Scheduling Specialist for our client's site in Charlotte, NC! This role supports the Piedmont Natural Gas Business Unit - Major Projects - within Duke Energy. Senior Project Controls Specialists (SrPCS) provide the skills, structure, and discipline needed to help project teams deliver work safely, efficiently, and predictably. Through accurate cost, schedule, scope, risk, and performance reporting, we enable informed decision-making, strengthen accountability, and support successful project outcomes from planning through execution.

Requirements

4 year degree - business, finance, project management, engineering, technical, or equivalent and 5+ years of prior work related experience OR 9+ years of related experience in lieu of degree.
Proficiency/Expertise with project management / project controls concepts / computer applications / analytics, strong collaborative team member.

Nice To Haves

Masters - business, finance, project management, or equivalent.
PMI or AACE certification (the following or equivalent are acceptable - PMP, CAPM, PMI-SP, AACE-CCC, AACE-PSP, AACE-CEP, AACE-EVP).
Experience with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Project Management Office (PMO), Business Intelligence (BI) tools, reporting dashboards.
Software such as Ecosys, advanced MS Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, slicers, etc.), MS Office Suite, MS Power BI, MS Project Server, Oracle Primavera P6, Power Plan, Maximo, etc.
Risk management tools (SWORD).

Responsibilities

Apply senior-level project controls expertise in core competency areas, mostly scheduling, cost forecasting, variance analysis, change control management, and governance/procedural compliance.
Partner with cross-functional teams across project execution, project controls, and ensure accurate, consistent and on time reporting.
Serve as a technical subject matter expert for reporting tools, data aggregation, analysis, and performance metrics.
Lead the development, assembly, validation, distribution, and archiving of monthly and project performance reports.
Lead Development / Generation of Project Controls Reporting: Provide leadership in development and generation of daily, weekly, monthly and project controls reports. Responsible for gathering, verifying, validating and analyzing data in support of project controls reporting. Responsible for distributing and archiving project controls reports as appropriate. In addition, provide quality presentation reports and be available to present project and leadership teams.
Oversee Project-level Change Control: Track and report changes to the project scope, schedule and cost baseline in a manner compliant with internal governance standards and terms and conditions of relevant contracts (as appropriate). Lead team through audit reviews as needed.
Oversee Project Controls Benchmarking and Self-Assessment Initiatives: Assist in scheduling and carrying out benchmarking and self-assessment initiatives relevant to project controls and the types of projects typically managed by the project controls group. Identify and communicate improvement opportunities, adoption of best practices and counter measures to address gaps in performance.
Expertise in Project Controls Methodologies: Senior-level knowledge of project schedules, cost estimates, track and trend cash flow reports, change control documentation (scope, cost or schedule) and/or any reports associated with program and project controls. Tracks and reports project status, variance analysis, earned value and critical path analyses at a level appropriate for the program or project. Ability to perform root cause analysis, explain why change occurred, and articulate to leadership effectively.
Expertise in Program & Project Estimates: Collaborate with Estimators and/or Project Controls Analysts to establish effective cost controls management baselines. Track and report relevant controls baselines according to PMCoE (Project Management Center of Excellence) Standards.
Effective Team Leadership: The SrPCS is responsible for maintaining effective relationships with key team members and stakeholders, supports the resolution of quality issues and complete assignments (proposals, program & project tasks, reports, etc.).