Project Controls Analyst I - Canonsburg, PA

About the role

Assist project management teams by developing, monitoring and updating estimates and/or an integrated project plan and schedule. Support project managers via file organization and note taking. Apply methods and techniques, standards, processes, procedures, guidelines, and templates to efficiently manage documents and support project managers, ensuring efficient project execution.

Responsibilities

• Support project team and estimating/scheduling personnel efforts toward the development of the project plan and translating the project plan into the project estimate/schedule with management guidance.
• Assist with the preparation of project time and/or cost claims and ensure credibility of the information contained in the estimate/schedule.
• Support project managers with document control for each assigned project.
• Ensure that required project estimating and/or planning/scheduling controls are appropriately implemented and maintained.
• Analyze the effects to the critical path activities; identify changes to the project that affect the schedule and develop recovery schedules and alternate courses of action.
• Prepare and provide progress reports, trending charts, and project analysis.
• Develop and record project historical estimate/schedule information and lessons learned.
• Participate in continuous improvement of the estimating/scheduling organization through benchmarking and maintaining affiliations with industry estimating/scheduling organizations and local/national chapters.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree (Bachelor's degree preferred) in technical or business discipline.
• Possess and maintain a valid driver’s license.
• Familiarity with the natural gas industry.
• Understanding of critical path method (CPM) scheduling with the ability to develop task logic into project schedules.
• Exposure to CPM scheduling software, preferably Microsoft Project.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable and effective in using Microsoft Office software.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify key issues from a broad range of alternatives and recommend optimal solutions for various situations.
• Ability to apply project planning and implementation and/or continuous improvement principles to affect tangible, positive outcomes.
• Ability to apply methods and techniques, standards, processes, procedures, guidelines, and templates to efficiently manage, develop, and control project estimates/schedules.
• Ability to develop/coordinate cross-functional work groups and projects, yielding optimal outcomes.
• Promotes an atmosphere conducive to the open exchange of new ideas and alternatives to orthodox approaches.
• Ability to work in a ‘team’ and/or ‘matrixed’ structure with shifting priorities, supporting multiple clients, and ability to embrace new/evolving responsibilities.

Physical Demands

To properly perform the integral functions of this job, the employee is required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, reach, talk, hear, grasp, and carry objects. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee usually works in a business office or other appropriate location during hybrid days, with a moderate noise level.