Project Control Specialist

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 the 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 and obtain approval for Contractor Work Authorizations (CWA) and revisions thereto.
• Monitor expenditures for usage trends, issues, etc.
• Lead and manage the process, ensuring the integrity of the process, resolving pending/outstanding requests, and reconciling encumbrances and pending tasks with financial systems as required.
• Provide project cost and schedule performance analyses and recommendations to improve project cost and 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 the 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, level 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.