Project Controls Coordinator

About the role

Strategy Engineering is a leading provider of comprehensive engineering services to the offshore energy industry. With expertise in conceptual design, front-end engineering, and brownfield modifications, we deliver practical, innovative, and cost-effective solutions to our clients. Our multidisciplinary team specializes in mechanical, structural, civil, electrical, instrumentation, pipeline, and process disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Assist project managers in developing, maintaining, and monitoring project milestones and detailed schedules to ensure target dates and overall project goals are achieved.
• Maintain an active project Backlog to determine staffing requirements and scheduling conflicts.
• Monitor actual job costs on a continual basis for project reporting, forecasting and cost analysis.
• Gather progress status updates at an interdisciplinary level, for reporting on individual projects as required for internal and external customer needs.
• Support an analysis of schedules; identify and investigate project schedule variances.
• Collect and update data; update and produce scheduling reports.
• Participate in planning and scheduling meetings to gain insight to planning and scheduling issues.
• Gather data for schedule baseline development and maintenance.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of WBS and support activities to implement applicable coding.
• Support monthly report preparation and invoicing activities.
• Prepare detailed and summary level Cost Performance Reports.
• Work within the Company’s Financial and Procedural processes, and assist in revising and updating these to a “Current Best Approach”.
• Assemble data taken from project resources and the ERP for trending and forecasting.
• Collect and analyze data for tracking actual costs to funding limitations.
• Maintain Earned Value Management System (EVMS) description.
• Maintain and support EVMS processes for multiple projects.
• Support periodic internal and external EVMS audits.
• Provide Project Controls support to Cost Account Managers in the form of reports, graphs, and charts as needed.
• Assume lead role in monthly production of revised project cost forecasting.
• Evaluate manpower, labor hour, and labor cost.
• Review performance trends; prepare analysis, cost impact, and monthly project performance reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or related field OR demonstrated equivalent and related experience.
• 5+ years of Project Controls experience in the oil and gas industry.
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Project, Excel, and a range of ERP systems (Ajera preferred).
• Solid understanding of the basic principles of project management.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with both cost management AND Scheduling preferred.