Project Controls/Management Support General Consultant (2717)

Navarro Research and Engineering is recruiting for Project Controls/Management Support General Consultant in Richland, WA.

Navarro is a premier contractor providing high-quality technical services to DOE, NASA, and DOD. Navarro’s success is based on our customer service focus and our well-known responsiveness and innovation. In all we do, either in corporate management or in our services to our clients, we seek for the most effective and efficient approaches to provide best value to our clients.

The contractor shall provide support in the following areas:

• Participate in weekly interface meeting with AMMS Task Monitor to review progress and/or discuss efforts and priorities. Other AMMS sub-organizations or customers may require separate meetings for work planning and progress status.
• Expert-level analysis will be required to consolidate and document the program and project work scope from multiple sources, maintain operational awareness of the capital planning and investment control processes; and reconcile the Integrated Investment Portfolio/Reliability Project Investment Portfolio (IIP/RPIP), RL budget formulation and execution. Products/Expectations include:
  • WBS/WBS Dictionary – Expectation: captures and reconciles budget, IIP/RPIP, RL external independent review (EIR) Baseline and Contractor baselines.
  • Integrated facilities and infrastructure budget crosscut and Exhibit 300s – Expectation: complies with HQ process and deliverable requirements and milestones.
  • Baseline Change Management – Expectation: implements the WBS in the RL and Contractor baselines.
• Expert-level analysis will also be essential to monitoring and control the investment execution as well as defining and documenting performance incentives, as well as periodic status and performance assessments. Expectations include: Performance Metrics – Expectation: documents and implements the earned value outcome indicators whereby project success will be recognized.
• Performance Incentives – Expectation: document the completion criteria and fee agreements associated with strategic and high priority work scope to include including performance evaluation.
• Performance Reports – Expectation: documents weekly monthly and quarterly status reviews and assessments.
• Assist with monitoring and analyzing performance using Earned Value Management and other performance management principles to ensure resources are being utilized effectively.
• Recognize and report adverse trends to respective Federal staff to help ensure baseline progress schedules are met.
• Integrate monthly variance analyses through workbook and meetings with input from the contractors and the RL Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for inclusion in routine reporting such as Integrated Planning Accountability and Budgeting System (IPABs Project Analysis Reporting System 2 (PARS 2)
  • Provide scheduling support.
  • Maintain performance data files.
• Assist with reviews of invoices, baseline submittals, and other contractor change packages.
• Provide support in review and analysis of Independent Government Estimates.
• Assist with baseline reviews, HQ Peer Reviews, and other reviews as required. This includes recommendations and assessments of technical and non-technical project issues
• Assist with evaluation and review of statements of work and work scope strategy for appropriateness and accuracy.
• Evaluate and review project and program risks to assure currency of risk reports and risk management planning.
• Evaluate current schedule data and analyze the Critical Path schedules.
• Assist with integrated budget request and lifecycle planning.
• Expert-level analysis will be applied to the production and maintenance of all required program and project documentation. Products/Expectations comply with DOE O 413.3 and include:
• Program and Project Execution Plans – Expectation: documents project objectives, funding profiles, requirements, performance parameters, management approach and R2A2s.
• Program and Project Risk Management Plans – Expectations: documents program and project risks and risk handling strategies.
• Risk Register/updates – Expectations: maintains inventory of program and project risks with their likelihood of occurrence, impacts and dispositions.
• Contract Performance Baselines and Performance Measurement Baselines – Expectations: documents the integration of the scope definition and the labor, material and other resource cost estimates with the performance to planned performance and using the following tools; Scope, Cost, and Schedule
• Baseline Deviations – Expectation: documents the scope, cost and schedule factors, their impacts and their remedies when actual performance and planned performance vary significantly.