Project Cost Controller/Scheduler
Wunderlich-Malec Engineering, Inc. · Chesterfield, MO · 3 wk ago
HybridFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes description about company and role. We need headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. No Pay or Schedule unless stated. There's no explicit pay or schedule info besides travel 30% (that's schedule? maybe travel). No explicit pay. So we omit Pay and Schedule.
We need to include About the role: description of company and role. Use
About the role
thenwith prose. Responsibilities: list of duties. Use
- . Requirements: maybe qualifications? The posting has Qualifications and also Duties And Responsibilities (duplicate). We need to separate Requirements (maybe minimum qualifications) and Qualifications (education/experience). Also Skills: list of abilities. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent. Let's extract: Company description: "Wunderlich-Malec Engineering (WM) is a 100% employee-owned ESOP and one of the largest and most well-established engineering companies in the United States. When you join WM you become part of a company that is: 100% employee-owned with 40+ years of industry history ENR (Engineering News Record) Top 500 firm Rated as a top System Integrator Giant Wunderlich-Malec Engineering has a Project Cost Controller/Scheduler position available at our 2300 Missouri STL location." We can combine into About the role paragraph. Responsibilities: The bullet list after "Key Responsibilities:" includes many items separated by semicolons. We'll turn each into
- . Need to preserve all. Let's list them: - Develops and manages large, moderate to complex projects schedules using a corporate scheduling tool such as Primavera or Microsoft Project, and risk management tools; - Assists Project Manager and Project Coordinator by developing, maintaining and analyzing project cost and schedule data; prepares reports, ensuring accuracy based on data analytics and provides actionable recommendations to improve performance of project teams or specific projects; - Uses spreadsheet, database, scheduling, and statistical software packages to analyze data, spot trends, and develop forecasts; works independently with minimal guidance by delivering analyses within agreed reporting cycles; - He/She may oversee external resources ensuring conformance with projects control processes and procedures; - Performs periodic KPI – based analysis and leads risk analysis for the team or Project Coordinator; - Provides guidance and actionable recommendations and solutions to support project teams in delivering projects in accordance with the approved baseline schedule and within authorized budget; - Produces regular and periodic reports to support project planning and control initiatives; - Verifies the accuracy and reliability of cost data, ensuring that costs are correctly coded and allocated in alignment with the project budget; - Produces reports on deviations, under-runs, over-runs, and prepares forecasts and cost trend reports within the agreed reporting timelines; reviews, evaluates and monitors trends and their impact on project budgets and provides actionable insights to ensure cost variances remain within the agreed acceptable limits; - Regularly maintains change control and the change order register; - Develops and updates accurate, reliable and timely progress curves for progress reporting and manages Earned Value Management (EVM) across all project stages to support informed decision-making; - Develops an Integrated Master Schedule according to owner standards and approved scheduling tools; - Prepares detailed and logically structured project schedules that accurately identify activity interrelationships, and critical paths with less than two (2) weeks float, and performs Critical Path Analysis to forecast potential delays, assess schedule risks and evaluate alternative scenarios to support proactive and risk-informed project execution; - Performs Current Schedule and Cost – Earned Value (EV) and Actual Cost (AC) vs. Performance Measurement Baseline analysis and highlight deviations; - Provides technical guidance to project personnel/s and advisory support on best scheduling practices and techniques, to ensure consistency, accuracy and compliance with project control standards; - Ensures timely and accurate project control data with financial and performance systems to maintain data integrity and reporting reliability; - Manages and maintain project control databases and reporting tools, ensuring that records are accurate, up-to-date, and readily accessible for analysis and decision-making; - Assists with the preparation of journal entries, as required; - Interacts and manages the team to carry out the functional tasks inherent in each individual including delegation of functional tasks and assess performance by giving and receiving feedback. We'll output each as
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Requirements: maybe "Minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in Project Controlling and four (4) years of experience in Construction Project Scheduling, Proficiency and experience in Primavera and/or MS Project are preferred; Advanced computer literacy including operation of office automation products (e.g. Microsoft Office Project, Excel) and project reporting tools is required."
Also "Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Financial Management or any other related field;" That's qualification.
We can treat Requirements as the experience and technical requirements; Qualifications as education.
But the instruction: Use headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to decide what goes where.
We have:
- About the role: company description + role summary.
- Responsibilities: list above.
- Requirements: maybe the experience requirements (3 years Project Controlling, 4 years Construction Scheduling, Primavera/MS Project preferred, advanced computer literacy). Also maybe travel 30%? That's not a requirement but a condition; could be placed under Requirements or maybe omitted. We'll include travel under Requirements? Might be better to put under Requirements as "Travel will be approximately 30%". It's a condition.
- Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Financial Management or any other related field.
- Skills: list of abilities under "Duties And Responsibilities" (the bullet list after that heading). Those are skills/competencies: Strong analytical and problem-solving, Results-oriented, Able to effectively organize, compile, summarize and analyze project cost and project schedule data/statistics, Able to produce meaningful conclusions related to a portfolio of projects, Able to provide work packages to the Project Management Office for consolidation and reporting purposes, Demonstrates strong competency in quality assurance and resource management with the ability to train and verify completeness and accuracy of work products delivered by external resources, Capable to develop presentations and produce required training to be used for internal and external resources, Proficient in risk management and methodology, Must be self-directed and proactive, Excellent oral and written communication skills, Proven ability to work in cross functional teams, Ability to load cost and resources into schedules and analyze project requirements and alternatives or ability to quickly learn advanced level of software skills (e.g., Microsoft Project or Primavera); and Working knowledge of principles and practices of Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE).
We'll put those as
- under Skills.
Benefits: list after "Wunderlich-Malec is proud to offer a comprehensive employee-owner benefit package. Full-time employees may be eligible for the following benefits:" then list items.
We'll output Benefits section with
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We must not include Pay or Schedule sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include Job ID etc.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present.
We must not include duplicated lines.
We must preserve all substantive info.
Now craft HTML.
We'll start with
About the role
...
ThenResponsibilities
- ...
Requirements
- ...
Qualifications
...
(or could be list but it's single line) ThenSkills
- ...
Benefits
- ...
- ends with a period? Not required. We'll copy each bullet as is, but remove trailing semicolons. Let's list them cleaned: 1. Develops and manages large, moderate to complex projects schedules using a corporate scheduling tool such as Primavera or Microsoft Project, and risk management tools. 2. Assists Project Manager and Project Coordinator by developing, maintaining and analyzing project cost and schedule data; prepares reports, ensuring accuracy based on data analytics and provides actionable recommendations to improve performance of project teams or specific projects. 3. Uses spreadsheet, database, scheduling, and statistical software packages to analyze data, spot trends, and develop forecasts; works independently with minimal guidance by delivering analyses within agreed reporting cycles. 4. May oversee external resources ensuring conformance with projects control processes and procedures. 5. Performs periodic KPI‑based analysis and leads risk analysis for the team or Project Coordinator. 6. Provides guidance and actionable recommendations and solutions to support project teams in delivering projects in accordance with the approved baseline schedule and within authorized budget. 7. Produces regular and periodic reports to support project planning and control initiatives. 8. Verifies the accuracy and reliability of cost data, ensuring that costs are correctly coded and allocated in alignment with the project budget. 9. Produces reports on deviations, under-runs, over-runs, and prepares forecasts and cost trend reports within the agreed reporting timelines; reviews, evaluates and monitors trends and their impact on project budgets and provides actionable insights to ensure cost variances remain within the agreed acceptable limits. 10. Regularly maintains change control and the change order register. 11. Develops and updates accurate, reliable and timely progress curves for progress reporting and manages Earned Value Management (EVM) across all project stages to support informed decision-making. 12. Develops an Integrated Master Schedule according to owner standards and approved scheduling tools. 13. Prepares detailed and logically structured project schedules that accurately identify activity interrelationships, and critical paths with less than two (2) weeks float, and performs Critical Path Analysis to forecast potential delays, assess schedule risks and evaluate alternative scenarios to support proactive and risk‑informed project execution. 14. Performs Current Schedule and Cost – Earned Value (EV) and Actual Cost (AC) vs. Performance Measurement Baseline analysis and highlight deviations. 15. Provides technical guidance to project personnel and advisory support on best scheduling practices and techniques, to ensure consistency, accuracy and compliance with project control standards. 16. Ensures timely and accurate project control data with financial and performance systems to maintain data integrity and reporting reliability. 17. Manages and maintains project control databases and reporting tools, ensuring that records are accurate, up‑to‑date, and readily accessible for analysis and decision‑making. 18. Assists with the preparation of journal entries, as required. 19. Interacts and manages the team to carry out the functional tasks inherent in each individual including delegation of functional tasks and assess performance by giving and receiving feedback. Now Requirements list: - Minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in Project Controlling. - Minimum of four (4) years of experience in Construction Project Scheduling. - Proficiency and experience in Primavera and/or MS Project are preferred. - Advanced computer literacy including operation of office automation products (e.g., Microsoft Office Project, Excel) and project reporting tools is required. - Travel will be approximately 30%. We could combine first two as separate items. Now Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Financial Management or any other related field. Now Skills list: - Strong analytical and problem‑solving. - Results‑oriented. - Able to effectively organize, compile, summarize and analyze project cost and project schedule data/statistics. - Able to produce meaningful conclusions related
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We must not include Pay or Schedule sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include Job ID etc.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present.
We must not include duplicated lines.
We must preserve all substantive info.
Now craft HTML.
We'll start with
- under Skills.
Benefits: list after "Wunderlich-Malec is proud to offer a comprehensive employee-owner benefit package. Full-time employees may be eligible for the following benefits:" then list items.
We'll output Benefits section with