Project Controls - Scheduler

About the role

Coordinates the planning, scheduling, estimating, monitoring, configuration control, analysis, and reporting on multiple scopes of varying size, complexity, and level of risk. Provides project managers with tools to keep projects on track, within budget, and within compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, monitor, and control project scopes, schedules, cost estimates and risk for projects and tasks.
• Perform schedule, cost and resource variance analysis.
• Prepare cost and schedule reports, conduct effective cost and schedule trending processes, and provide analysis for use to support corrective actions.
• Produces timely reports for assigned projects.
• Ensures the data integrity and configuration control for assigned projects.
• Facilitates internal team communications and meetings.
• Affords assistance with customer interactions, including tracking project management deliverables and presenting project management status to external or internal customers.
• Budgeting and Forecasting responsibilities in support of program planning, internal Fiscal year planning, and Basis of Estimate (BOE) for project execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree: Minimum 4 years of relevant experience.
• Master's degree: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
• PhD.
• Applicants without a bachelor's degree may be considered based on a combination of at least 12 years of completed education and/or relevant experience.

Preferred Job Requirements

• High level of proficiency with Primavera P6.
• Proficiency with Microsoft software applications, including Windows, Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint, and the ability to integrate applications.
• Knowledge of or experience with project controls practices and principles, including work breakdown structure development, duration management, schedule logic and dependencies, critical path analysis, change control, cost engineering, estimating, Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS), status reporting, and what-if analysis.
• Ability to resolve complex issues, strong organizational skills, excellent oral and written communications skills, strong analytical and problem solving skills, with ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to effectively facilitate meetings.
• To work under minimal supervision and effectively manage multiple/changing priorities.
• Should understand basic accounting principles.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP, cost planning, and financial management software.