Project Control Specialist - Lead

Job Type: Full-Time

Level: Mid Level

Location: Ashburn, VA (Washington, DC metro area)

Travel: No Travel

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Our Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) practice in the Washington, DC metro area is seeking a Sr. Project Controls Specialist with transportation engineering and/or construction experience to lead our project controls and scheduling support team at the Eastern division of a U.S. Dept. of Transportation agency. The Eastern division located in Ashburn, Virginia is one of the three U.S. Dept. of Transportation divisions for which our firm is responsible for supporting their project controls operations.

This individual will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Work collaboratively with the program support team consisting of 3 – 4 Project Control Specialists to manage a portfolio of large transportation engineering design and construction projects
• Perform project controls and scheduling support tasks for projects across 31 states in the Eastern region, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Lead initiatives to define and execute leading practice project controls strategies that mitigate operational and administrative schedule issues while improving schedule integrity, efficiency and productivity across all assigned project controls and scheduling tasks
• Effectively utilize Oracle Primavera P6 to perform required project controls and scheduling support tasks at both the program and project level across all project phases
• Analyze assigned project schedules and generate periodic and/or ad-hoc reports for project stakeholders to provide in depth insight of project health to enable informed decision making
• Provide bi-weekly/monthly status reports to the Chief of Engineering, Branch Chiefs, Construction Engineers, Program Managers, Project Managers, Functional Managers etc.
• Work collaboratively with the project stakeholders to ensure the satisfactory fulfillment of all service level agreements for the program

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of project controls and scheduling experience in a large transportation engineering, construction, energy, utilities or public works environment
• Must possess at least 5 years of project controls and scheduling experience using Oracle Primavera P6 Professional or EPPM v21 or higher
• Minimum of 2 years leading high performing project controls teams
• Experience and good understanding of supporting scheduling activities at both the project and program level within all phases of the project
• Prior experience utilizing Earned Value Analysis, Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling and Float Analysis
• MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN OR PERMANENT RESIDENT
• MUST BE ABLE TO PASS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE PROCESS
• CANDIDATES ON THE CENTRAL OR EASTERN TIME ZONES PREFERRED

COMPENSATION:

• Annual base salary is $100,000 - $130,000 (depending on experience)
• 10% annual performance incentive bonus
• Sign-on bonus up to $5,000
• Benefits include 15 days of PTO, 11 paid public holidays, medical, dental, vision, 4% employer match 401K plan, educational assistance, life insurance, short and long term disability insurance, etc.

If you are interested in this position, please send an updated resume and salary information to resumes@roboholdings.com as soon as possible to be considered. If you are not interested, but know someone who might be, please let us know. There is a $2,500 referral fee for referring a qualified candidate who is hired for the position.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Robo Holdings, LLC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Robo Holdings, LLC complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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