Q or TS Cleared Project Control Professional

CEIS | Government is seeking a skilled and detail-driven Project Controls Specialist to provide full-scope schedule and budget baseline support to the Pantex Life Extension Program (LEP) and interface customers. The selected professional will assist in developing, maintaining, and analyzing the Integrated Site Schedule (ISS), as well as support the performance analysis and change control cycle. This role is 100% on-site at the Pantex Plant and requires active participation in a fast-paced, mission-critical nuclear modernization program.

Key Responsibilities

Schedule Baseline Development

• Develop and maintain an integrated baseline schedule that reflects full contractual scope and rolling wave planning updates.
• Ensure all activities are traceable to the WBS, control accounts, work packages, and responsible orgs.
• Build logic-driven sequencing to support critical path and float analysis.
• Resource-load activities for labor, materials, and direct costs to support time-phased budget planning.
• Incorporate schedule margin and risk-based buffers; ensure vertical and horizontal traceability.
• Support integration of subcontractor schedules and margin risk strategies.
• Maintain current working schedule reflecting actual progress and approved changes.
  
  

Budget Baseline Development

• Support creation and maintenance of a time-phased budget aligned to the ISS.
• Help define Contract Budget Base (CBB), Management Reserve (MR), and Undistributed Budget (UB) elements.
• Validate and reconcile control account/work package scope, schedule, and cost.
• Support work authorization workflows and earned value assignments.
• Conduct budget data quality checks and cost traceability reviews.
• Produce cost reports, staffing plans, and resource allocation views.
  
  

Performance & Analysis Cycle

• Assist in implementing business rhythm for performance measurement and reporting.
• Support CAM notebook development, configuration control, and documentation management.
• Progress schedules, calculate earned value, and generate internal performance reports and customer deliverables.
• Review Variance Analysis Reports (VARs) and contribute to estimate-at-completion (EAC) development.
• Support baseline change proposal (BCP) development, cost/schedule updates, and work authorization processing.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 5 years of experience supporting DOE/NNSA or DoD project controls, program management, or modernization efforts.
• Demonstrated experience supporting schedule and budget baseline development on complex technical programs.
• Strong understanding of EVMS principles, cost/schedule integration, and critical path analysis.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional coordination, reporting, and baseline traceability.
• Familiarity with schedule and cost software tools and DOE/NNSA performance frameworks.
• Active DOE Q Clearance required.
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Direct support of DOE/NNSA modernization or LEP programs.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6, Deltek Cobra, or similar scheduling/cost platforms.
• Experience producing CDRL/SDRL contract performance reporting.
• Familiarity with CAM support functions, notebook structuring, and BCP/EAC workflow.
  
  

CEIS | Government is a small business headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with key offices in San Francisco, CA and Pittsburgh, PA, and we are growing. You can be a key part of our team and help us continue to build our capabilities long-term. Our government clients include Department of Energy facilities like Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, while our commercial clients have included globally recognized firms. We specialize in Industrial Hygiene, Safety, Construction Management, and Project Management. We have open, transparent communication without layers of bureaucracy, while also having a strong team to provide backup. We offer health, dental, vacation/sick, and a 401k with a generous match.

Learn more about us at https://www.ceis.com/government

CEIS | Government is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or protected Veteran status. Because eligibility for DOE clearance is required for this position, we ask the question about citizenship.