What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Control Specialist position at Acro Service Corp?
Title : PROJECT CONTROL SPECIALIST
Location: Memphis TN USA 38109
Duration: 12 months contract with (high possible extension)
Description:
- Develop and implement standard methods for project performance monitoring, reporting, analysis, trend assessment, scheduling, and estimating.
- Facilitate programs to ensure establishment and analysis of specific operational and process improvement plans used for goal setting, project cost and benefit estimates, performance indicators/targets, benchmarking, baselining, and trending.
- Assist in the development and approval of project contracts and revisions thereto.
- Prepare/obtain approval for contractor work authorizations (CWA) and revisions thereto.
- Monitor expenditures for usage trends, issues, etc. Lead/manage the process ensuring the integrity of the process, resolving pending/outstanding requests, reconciling encumbrances and pending tasks with financial systems as required.
- Provide project cost/schedule performance analyses and recommendations to improve project cost/schedule performance to applicable project managers/engineers.
- Perform cost/benefit analyses and enter data into the project justification system database.
- Prepare project approval packages and all associated documentation. Assist project managers/engineers and line organizations in developing project budgets and establishing project reporting structures.
- Monitor and forecast performance in comparison to performance plan and long-range project plan objectives.
- Assist project managers in developing project work sequence structures that ensure effective control of risk management issues, efficient resource allocation, and critical path identification.
- Ensure project milestones and resource needs (man hours and dollars) are loaded into the applicable cost and schedule tools.
- Using cost and scheduling tools, levelize resources for all projects.
- Conduct project schedule review meetings and scheduling sessions during scoping workshops.
- Conduct special studies, for example: project forecasting, O&M projects, etc. Research, write, and submit all fixed assets accounting classification requests for formal determination of capital projects.
- Provide written project closure notifications and perform root cause analysis to explain project cost, schedule, and performance variances.
Salary : $50 - $70