Project Manager 1- Cost Controls, Mission Critical

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JE Dunn’s Advanced Facilities Group (AFG) combines Mission Critical, Advanced Industries, and Industrial & Manufacturing into one high-performing team focused on cutting-edge work to serve innovative clients on large Industrial & Manufacturing, Data Center, and Semiconductor projects. As part of the Advanced Facilities team, you'll work on some of the most advanced construction projects across the country, growing your career alongside our diverse team of industry professionals.

Role Summary

This position is responsible for developing the reporting systems for project controls assignments. It performs complex aspects of individual project estimating, scheduling, change documentation and cost control while reporting up to program or portfolio level. The Cost Analyst III is a critical position as the expert of at least one of the project controls core competency areas: Scheduling, Estimating, Cost Engineering. This position as a lead of the project controls team as well as a member of multiple project or program teams. This position supports Project Managers and Project Directors on projects and programs of varying size and complexity. This position will be expected to lead and direct the set up and reviews of the project controls status (cost, contract, WBS, resource, etc.).

Using prescribed methods and tools, the position is responsible for performing primary aspects of project control assignments. The position is considered a technical, SME, support position and requires college level reasoning via formal education or work experience. It requires understanding and application of basic project controls principles. This position must be proficient with various computer applications with analytics that relate to schedule, cost, and risk. This position requires proficient to expert use, understanding and application of project controls principles and associated project controls software tools.  

 

Key Role Responsibilities - Core

PROJECT MANAGEMENT FAMILY – CORE

• Lead Development / Generation of Periodic Project Controls Reporting 

• • Provide leadership in development and generation of daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly project controls reports.  Responsible for gathering, verifying, validating, and analyzing data in support of project controls reporting.  Responsible for distributing and archiving project controls reports as appropriate. In addition, provide presentation quality report and be available to present if needed to project team/management team. 

• Lead and Perform Change Control
• Track and manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and cost baseline.  Identify, assess, gain approval for, and distribute change requests, change notices and/or change orders in a manner compliant with internal governance standards and terms and conditions of relevant contracts (as appropriate). Lead team through audit reviews and reporting. Supports the preconstruction team including quantity takeoff, trade coordination and scope of work development, scope review, bid package development, schedule development, bid list creation and bid advertisement.

Key Role Responsibilities - Additional Core

• Oversee Project Controls Benchmarking and Self-Assessment Initiatives 

• • Assist in scheduling and carrying out benchmarking and self-assessment initiatives relevant to project controls and the types of projects typically managed by the project controls group.  Identify and communicate improvement opportunities, adoption of best practices and counter measures to address gaps in performance. 

• Expertise in Project Controls Methodologies. 
• Leads development and maintenance of WBS, project schedules, cost estimates, track, and trend cash flow reports, change control documentation (scope, cost, or schedule) and/or any reports associated with project controls. Tracks and reports project status perf