Project Controls Senior Analyst

About the role

This position performs the following duties: coordinate the planning, scheduling, estimating, monitoring, configuration control, analysis, and reporting on multiple scopes of varying size, complexity, and level of risk; interface significantly with Project Managers and Core Team Members, as well as functional organizations; provide 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, provide analysis for use to support corrective actions, and produce timely reports for assigned projects.
• Ensure the data integrity and configuration control for assigned projects.
• Facilitate internal team communications and meetings.
• Aid with customer interactions, including tracking project management deliverables and presenting project management status to external or internal customers.
• Perform budgeting and forecasting responsibilities in support of program planning, internal Fiscal year planning, and BOEs for project execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree: Minimum 4 years of relevant experience
• Master's degree: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
• Professional or advanced level of project control technical skills in cost, schedule, and reporting
• 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, and 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
• Understanding of basic accounting principles
• Strong working knowledge of SAP, cost planning, and financial management software

Qualifications

• Minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements.
• Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.
• If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.
• This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.
• CNS is a drug-free workplace.
• Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation.
• All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.
• CNS is an equal opportunity employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.

Benefits

• Medical plan
• Prescription drug plan
• Vision plan
• Dental plan
• Employer matched 401(k) savings plan
• Disability coverage
• Education reimbursement
• Many more

Schedule

• Flexible work options
• Wellness initiatives