Project Controls Specialist II

About the role

Serve as Controls Task Lead in support of HNTB’s efforts for the Metro Nashville Choose How You Move (CHYM) program. CHYM is Nashville’s multi-billion-dollar voter-approved plan to modernize transportation and give everyone safer, more reliable ways to get around. Implementation is underway, delivering practical investments in safety, reliability, and access that work for everyone, whether you walk, roll, ride, bike, or drive.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze master project/program schedule, baseline schedules, progress schedules, specialty schedules, schedule analysis and project progress reporting; work with schedulers to perform schedule duties as defined.
• Provide or review schedule updates; produce exception reports of schedule deviations; recommend recovery plans.
• Develop cost estimates, including conceptual estimates, change order estimates, and other estimates as defined; develop cost report templates as needed.
• Prepare and issue budget/cost and change management reports; produce regular budget/cost reports including current status, forecast at completion, and variance versus baseline budget.
• Oversee and maintain project management control system (PMCS) and/or document controls system; oversee document control resources and/or perform document controls responsibilities for engineering, procurement and construction documentation.
• Establish and/or maintain project controls procedures for projects, including cost estimating, budget/cost management, scheduling, document control, reporting, risk management and claims analysis functions.
• Assess the cost and schedule impacts of design/construction changes and assist project leadership/staff in developing workarounds and schedule recovery plans; identify trends and deviations and recommend corrective measures.
• Regularly communicate to project management regarding deviations, risks, and trends that are or may impact project cost and schedule; analyze issues to determine root causes of variances and make recommendations for correcting deviations to maintain cost and schedule targets.
• Develop and produce reports for client and project management staff to monitor progress and status; prepare project management for internal and external meetings by providing reports, analysis, and backup documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or related field and 6 years’ relevant experience.
• In lieu of education, 10 years’ relevant experience, or 6 years’ relevant direct contractor experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with transportation.
• Project Controls experience in three or more phases of project lifecycle (e.g., predesign, design, procurement, construction, and post-construction phases).
• Project Controls experience working as client’s PM/CM agent or as part of a design-build contractor (or equivalent design and construction experience).
• Proven experience with the full suite of project controls disciplines on a major program management or general engineering consultant contract.
• Proven experience coordinating with client leadership to successfully discover and deliver client needs by listening well.
• Collaborative approach to partnering with teammates and the client to deliver a multi-discipline program.
• Preference for location in or ability to relocate to the Nashville area.