Advance Project Control Specialist

Advance Project Control Specialist

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Accounting, Engineering, Business, or an equivalent field required.
• Preferred proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Advanced Excel Experience) and experience with SAP.
• Planning and Scheduling software Primavera P6 is required.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in executing, contracting, planning and scheduling projects work required.
• Excellent communication, organization & planning skills.
• Ability to quickly adapt in a dynamic work environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop communications and reporting networks for data gathering, review, analysis and presentation of recommendations to ensure projects remains on schedule and within budget.
• Communicate schedule status & recommendations to the project teams to maintain the projects within approved budgets and cash flow constraints.
• Work with project teams to develop and maintain project work breakdown structures according to MPC & Project Controls standards.
• Validate area team project estimates, MPC project estimating practices, identification of expense classifications, etc.
• Review and maintain project performance measurement systems (SAP Prometheus/Primavera P6) and reports for contractor progress.
• Ensure both MPC and contractors adhere to project control procedures and reporting requirements.
• Support Project Controls Supervisor with monthly portfolio and project status reporting.
• Interface with various departments to gather information, communicate issues, and resolve problems.
• Prepares and keeps current master program and project plans as well as sub project plans for monitoring and tracking.
• Provides information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project schedule.
• Identifies and records the impact of work performed and not performed as scheduled. Evaluate actual construction progress and provide regular schedule updates.
• Interfaces with Operations, Owners, and Subcontractors to discuss impact of work and resolution of problems.
• Contributes to the development of working schedules for Estimating, prior to execution date, which sufficiently illustrates the sequence of work activities and project timeframe.
• Prepares and issues preliminary forecast with project leads.
• Consults the appropriate project team members and MPC’s estimating procedures as a means of ensuring that proper planning is completed prior to the commencement of work.
• Develop & maintain regular manpower estimates/histograms for current, upcoming, and future work for short term and long-term forecasting manpower needs.
• Perform EVM analysis on projects in execution phase.

Preferred Qualifications

• Possible support schedule during Cat Change and/or Turnaround