Sr. Project Controls Specialist
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the posting.
Key content:
- Intro: "Take Your Delivery Management Career to the Next Level Kleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is committed to a people-first culture, technical excellence, and creating opportunities where employees can thrive! Do you have a passion for managing budgets, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations? Our delivery management professionals are involved in project delivery from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, and closeout. Each phase requires strong attention to detail while communicating to internal and external stakeholders. Do you have a proven track record in managing goals and objectives? Consider joining our team and work with peers who have vast industry knowledge and experience solving complex problems."
- "Step into Your New Role Kleinfelder is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Southern California team in San Diego, Laguna Hills, or one of our other Southern California offices (Los Angeles, Ontario, Riverside). As a Project Controls Specialist, you will:" then bullet list of duties.
List of duties (starting with "Work directly with Project Managers..." etc). Let's extract them as bullet points.
- Work directly with Project Managers, Program Managers, and Senior Project Control Specialists to support in the execution of all project controls processes and systems on large-scale delivery projects from proposal to close-out phases.
- Work with the Project Manager to create Project Management Plans for project team application.
- Assist in the creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), schedules, earned value, and other project documents.
- Provide support for intermediate planning and scheduling for baseline, resources, and progress tracking needs.
- Implement and execute proper controls to proactively support, monitor, and communicate budget, actual status, and forecast costs, labor hours, and quantities for projects.
- Develop and issue timely cost reports.
- Prepare and issue cost analysis narratives including recommendations for corrective actions that are used by the project team to manage the work.
- Prepare earned value-based reports, including earned value curves.
- Assist with preparation of cost proposals in Kleinfelder and Client formats.
- Support Project Managers in contract management/compliance, invoice management, document control, client meetings/coordination, and interaction with AR Collections Specialist team.
- Take the lead in the development and maintenance of periodic status reports to keep management and/or client informed on the project progress.
- Coordination with Kleinfelder's contract department for initiation and completion of Prime/Sub agreement, Certificate of Insurance, subcontractor task orders, and Kleinfelder Master Service Agreements.
- Implementation and monitoring of project document structure to ensure QA/QC compliance, logical tier creation, and coordination of project files through administrative team. This includes hard copy, electronic, and SharePoint filing.
Then "Requirements:" then list.
- Self-motivated, minimal supervision, detail oriented professional with 4-8 years in planning/scheduling, cost control, and project administration using MS Project, Excel, Word, and Outlook.
- Advanced skills in Excel and advanced spreadsheet functions preferred.
- Education: Associates" degree from a two-year college in finance, business, or project management desirable.
- Experience: Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
- Demonstrate team collaboration, communication, organization, and self-prioritization skills.
- Must be: dependable and keep required work schedules.
- able to work effectively in a team environment and consistently maintain a professional and respectful demeanor/attitude with co-workers, clients, vendors, and regulatory agencies.
- a problem solver with the ability to find resolutions.
- detail orientated with the ability to catch and correct one's own errors, as well as those of others when proofreading.
- Following an offer, candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete employment reference checks, verification of professional licensure and/or educational credentials, a motor vehicle report (MVR), and a comprehensive background check.
Then "Move Forward with Kleinfelder:" description about company.
Then "Progress with an Employer that Values You" includes benefits.
Benefits: "Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays. The expected salary range for the position is displayed in accordance with the California Pay Transparency Law. Final agreed upon compensation is based upon individual qualifications and experience. Salary Range: $75,850 - $126,585."
Then "Career Development: We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program."
Then "Equal Opportunity: ..." which is EEO boilerplate; we should remove.
Then "NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES ..." which is boilerplate; remove.
Thus we need sections: About the role (maybe intro), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (list), Qualifications (maybe education?), Skills (maybe advanced Excel?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule (if schedule info present). There's no explicit schedule info (like full-time, hours). So we should not create Schedule section.
We need to decide which headings to use: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay.
We have content for About the role: the introductory paragraph(s) describing company and role.
Responsibilities: the bullet list of duties.
Requirements: the list of requirements (self-motivated, etc). Could also include education and experience as part of Requirements or Qualifications. The posting has "Requirements:" then bullet list includes education line etc. So we can treat that as Requirements.
Qualifications: maybe we could separate education and experience? But we have limited distinct content. The instruction: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine Requirements and Qualifications into one Requirements section. But we have separate headings allowed; we could still include Qualifications if there is distinct content like "Associates degree..." etc. However that is already in the Requirements list. So we could just have Requirements section covering all.
Skills: we have "Advanced skills in Excel and advanced spreadsheet functions preferred." That's a skill. Could be part of Requirements or separate Skills section. Since we have a skill, we could create Skills section.
Benefits: we have benefits list.
Pay: we have salary range.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Pay.
We must not include empty sections.
Now format: Use
for each section heading. Then content: For prose use
. For lists use
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We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the sections.
Let's craft About the role paragraph: combine the introductory paragraphs before "Step into Your New Role". That includes:
"Take Your Delivery Management Career to the Next Level Kleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is committed to a people-first culture, technical excellence, and creating opportunities where employees can thrive! Do you have a passion for managing budgets, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations? Our delivery management professionals are involved in project delivery from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, and closeout. Each phase requires strong attention to detail while communicating to internal and external stakeholders. Do you have a proven track record in managing goals and objectives? Consider joining our team and work with peers who have vast industry knowledge and experience solving complex problems."
Then also the line "Step into Your New Role Kleinfelder is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Southern California team in San Diego, Laguna Hills, or one of our other Southern California offices (Los Angeles, Ontario, Riverside)." This is also part of About the role? Could be considered role location. We'll include it in About the role paragraph.
Thus About the role paragraph includes that sentence.
Now Responsibilities: bullet list as extracted.
Now Requirements: bullet list as extracted (including self-motivated, etc). Ensure we include all bullet points.
Now Skills: bullet list maybe just "Advanced skills in Excel and advanced spreadsheet functions preferred." Could be a single
- .
Now Benefits: bullet list of benefits: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays. Also maybe mention reimbursements for continuing education etc? That's under Career Development, not benefits. But we could include Career Development as part of Benefits? The instruction: Benefits section only when posting has real, specific content for it. The posting includes "Benefits: Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays." That's benefits. Also "Career Development: ..." could be separate section but we might avoid thin section. Could incorporate into Benefits? But it's not benefits; it's career development. Could create a separate section "Career Development" but not in allowed headings list (Allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Career Development not listed. So we should not create a heading for it. We could incorporate career development content into Benefits or maybe into Requirements? Better to incorporate into Benefits as additional bullet? But it's not a benefit per se; but we could still include as part of Benefits section? The instruction: Use headings only for those listed. So we cannot add Career Development heading. We could put career development prose under Benefits section as a
after the list? Might be okay but could be considered mixing. However we must preserve all substantive information; we can include it as a paragraph within Benefits section (maybe after the list). That would keep all info.
Pay: salary range.
Now ensure we don't include boilerplate: EEO, notice to third party agencies, etc.
Now output HTML fragment.
Let's craft.
About the role
Take Your Delivery Management Career to the Next Level Kleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is committed to a people-first culture, technical excellence, and creating opportunities where employees can thrive! Do you have a passion for managing budgets, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations? Our delivery management professionals are involved in project delivery from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, and closeout. Each phase requires strong attention to detail while communicating to internal and external stakeholders. Do you have a proven track record in managing goals and objectives? Consider joining our team and work with peers who have vast industry knowledge and experience solving complex problems. Step into Your New Role Kleinfelder is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Southern California team in San Diego, Laguna Hills, or one of our other Southern California offices (Los Angeles, Ontario, Riverside).
Responsibilities
- Work directly with Project Managers, Program Managers, and Senior Project Control Specialists to support in the execution of all project controls processes and systems on large-scale delivery projects from proposal to close-out phases.
- Work with the Project Manager to create Project Management Plans for project team application.
- Assist in the creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), schedules, earned value, and other project documents.
- Provide support for intermediate planning and scheduling for baseline, resources, and progress tracking needs.
- Implement and execute proper controls to proactively support, monitor, and communicate budget, actual status, and forecast costs
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - Intro: "Take Your Delivery Management Career to the Next Level Kleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is committed to a people-first culture, technical excellence, and creating opportunities where employees can thrive! Do you have a passion for managing budgets, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations? Our delivery management professionals are involved in project delivery from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, and closeout. Each phase requires strong attention to detail while communicating to internal and external stakeholders. Do you have a proven track record in managing goals and objectives? Consider joining our team and work with peers who have vast industry knowledge and experience solving complex problems." - "Step into Your New Role Kleinfelder is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Southern California team in San Diego, Laguna Hills, or one of our other Southern California offices (Los Angeles, Ontario, Riverside). As a Project Controls Specialist, you will:" then bullet list of duties. List of duties (starting with "Work directly with Project Managers..." etc). Let's extract them as bullet points. - Work directly with Project Managers, Program Managers, and Senior Project Control Specialists to support in the execution of all project controls processes and systems on large-scale delivery projects from proposal to close-out phases. - Work with the Project Manager to create Project Management Plans for project team application. - Assist in the creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), schedules, earned value, and other project documents. - Provide support for intermediate planning and scheduling for baseline, resources, and progress tracking needs. - Implement and execute proper controls to proactively support, monitor, and communicate budget, actual status, and forecast costs, labor hours, and quantities for projects. - Develop and issue timely cost reports. - Prepare and issue cost analysis narratives including recommendations for corrective actions that are used by the project team to manage the work. - Prepare earned value-based reports, including earned value curves. - Assist with preparation of cost proposals in Kleinfelder and Client formats. - Support Project Managers in contract management/compliance, invoice management, document control, client meetings/coordination, and interaction with AR Collections Specialist team. - Take the lead in the development and maintenance of periodic status reports to keep management and/or client informed on the project progress. - Coordination with Kleinfelder's contract department for initiation and completion of Prime/Sub agreement, Certificate of Insurance, subcontractor task orders, and Kleinfelder Master Service Agreements. - Implementation and monitoring of project document structure to ensure QA/QC compliance, logical tier creation, and coordination of project files through administrative team. This includes hard copy, electronic, and SharePoint filing. Then "Requirements:" then list. - Self-motivated, minimal supervision, detail oriented professional with 4-8 years in planning/scheduling, cost control, and project administration using MS Project, Excel, Word, and Outlook. - Advanced skills in Excel and advanced spreadsheet functions preferred. - Education: Associates" degree from a two-year college in finance, business, or project management desirable. - Experience: Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing. - Demonstrate team collaboration, communication, organization, and self-prioritization skills. - Must be: dependable and keep required work schedules. - able to work effectively in a team environment and consistently maintain a professional and respectful demeanor/attitude with co-workers, clients, vendors, and regulatory agencies. - a problem solver with the ability to find resolutions. - detail orientated with the ability to catch and correct one's own errors, as well as those of others when proofreading. - Following an offer, candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete employment reference checks, verification of professional licensure and/or educational credentials, a motor vehicle report (MVR), and a comprehensive background check. Then "Move Forward with Kleinfelder:" description about company. Then "Progress with an Employer that Values You" includes benefits. Benefits: "Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays. The expected salary range for the position is displayed in accordance with the California Pay Transparency Law. Final agreed upon compensation is based upon individual qualifications and experience. Salary Range: $75,850 - $126,585." Then "Career Development: We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program." Then "Equal Opportunity: ..." which is EEO boilerplate; we should remove. Then "NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES ..." which is boilerplate; remove. Thus we need sections: About the role (maybe intro), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (list), Qualifications (maybe education?), Skills (maybe advanced Excel?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule (if schedule info present). There's no explicit schedule info (like full-time, hours). So we should not create Schedule section. We need to decide which headings to use: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay. We have content for About the role: the introductory paragraph(s) describing company and role. Responsibilities: the bullet list of duties. Requirements: the list of requirements (self-motivated, etc). Could also include education and experience as part of Requirements or Qualifications. The posting has "Requirements:" then bullet list includes education line etc. So we can treat that as Requirements. Qualifications: maybe we could separate education and experience? But we have limited distinct content. The instruction: prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine Requirements and Qualifications into one Requirements section. But we have separate headings allowed; we could still include Qualifications if there is distinct content like "Associates degree..." etc. However that is already in the Requirements list. So we could just have Requirements section covering all. Skills: we have "Advanced skills in Excel and advanced spreadsheet functions preferred." That's a skill. Could be part of Requirements or separate Skills section. Since we have a skill, we could create Skills section. Benefits: we have benefits list. Pay: we have salary range. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Pay. We must not include empty sections. Now format: Use
for each section heading. Then content: For prose use
. For lists use
- . We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the sections. Let's craft About the role paragraph: combine the introductory paragraphs before "Step into Your New Role". That includes: "Take Your Delivery Management Career to the Next Level Kleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is committed to a people-first culture, technical excellence, and creating opportunities where employees can thrive! Do you have a passion for managing budgets, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations? Our delivery management professionals are involved in project delivery from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, and closeout. Each phase requires strong attention to detail while communicating to internal and external stakeholders. Do you have a proven track record in managing goals and objectives? Consider joining our team and work with peers who have vast industry knowledge and experience solving complex problems." Then also the line "Step into Your New Role Kleinfelder is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Southern California team in San Diego, Laguna Hills, or one of our other Southern California offices (Los Angeles, Ontario, Riverside)." This is also part of About the role? Could be considered role location. We'll include it in About the role paragraph. Thus About the role paragraph includes that sentence. Now Responsibilities: bullet list as extracted. Now Requirements: bullet list as extracted (including self-motivated, etc). Ensure we include all bullet points. Now Skills: bullet list maybe just "Advanced skills in Excel and advanced spreadsheet functions preferred." Could be a single
- .
Now Benefits: bullet list of benefits: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays. Also maybe mention reimbursements for continuing education etc? That's under Career Development, not benefits. But we could include Career Development as part of Benefits? The instruction: Benefits section only when posting has real, specific content for it. The posting includes "Benefits: Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays." That's benefits. Also "Career Development: ..." could be separate section but we might avoid thin section. Could incorporate into Benefits? But it's not benefits; it's career development. Could create a separate section "Career Development" but not in allowed headings list (Allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Career Development not listed. So we should not create a heading for it. We could incorporate career development content into Benefits or maybe into Requirements? Better to incorporate into Benefits as additional bullet? But it's not a benefit per se; but we could still include as part of Benefits section? The instruction: Use headings only for those listed. So we cannot add Career Development heading. We could put career development prose under Benefits section as a
after the list? Might be okay but could be considered mixing. However we must preserve all substantive information; we can include it as a paragraph within Benefits section (maybe after the list). That would keep all info. Pay: salary range. Now ensure we don't include boilerplate: EEO, notice to third party agencies, etc. Now output HTML fragment. Let's craft.
About the role
Take Your Delivery Management Career to the Next Level Kleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is committed to a people-first culture, technical excellence, and creating opportunities where employees can thrive! Do you have a passion for managing budgets, meeting deadlines, and exceeding client expectations? Our delivery management professionals are involved in project delivery from initiation and planning to execution, monitoring, and closeout. Each phase requires strong attention to detail while communicating to internal and external stakeholders. Do you have a proven track record in managing goals and objectives? Consider joining our team and work with peers who have vast industry knowledge and experience solving complex problems. Step into Your New Role Kleinfelder is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Southern California team in San Diego, Laguna Hills, or one of our other Southern California offices (Los Angeles, Ontario, Riverside).
Responsibilities
- Work directly with Project Managers, Program Managers, and Senior Project Control Specialists to support in the execution of all project controls processes and systems on large-scale delivery projects from proposal to close-out phases.
- Work with the Project Manager to create Project Management Plans for project team application.
- Assist in the creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), schedules, earned value, and other project documents.
- Provide support for intermediate planning and scheduling for baseline, resources, and progress tracking needs.
- Implement and execute proper controls to proactively support, monitor, and communicate budget, actual status, and forecast costs