US ITER Project Controls and Risk Management Specialist

Requisition Id 12960 

Level - TP03

 

 

Overview: 

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seeks a Project Controls Specialist to support Project Control efforts for the US ITER Project.

 

US ITER is a ten year, ~$6.5 Billion, Department of Energy multi-laboratory project that executes the United States (US) contributions to ITER. The US is a non-host partner in the seven-member international collaboration to design and construct, in France, a fusion device aimed at establishing the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy. Find out more about this exciting project on the web: https://www.usiter.org/

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an extraordinary 80-year history of solving the nation’s biggest problems. We have a dedicated and creative staff of over 6,000 people! Our vision for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is to cultivate an environment and practices that foster diversity in ideas and in the people across the organization, as well as to ensure ORNL is recognized as a workplace of choice. These elements are critical for enabling the execution of ORNL’s broader mission to accelerate scientific discoveries and their translation into energy, environment, and security solutions for the nation.

 

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities:

 

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• Function as the project’s Risk Management Specialist (approximately 50%), in conjunction with the project technical and project management staff, to:
  •  Develop and implement risk management plans, risk registers, and processes for the US ITER project
  • Facilitate risk management workshops and produce reports and recommendations to assist in the mitigation of the identified risks.
  • Perform qualitative risk analysis to identify, prioritize, manage, and mitigate project risks and track their resolution
  • Perform quantitative risk analysis to estimate the impact of risks on project cost and schedule using Monte Carlo simulation and other techniques
  • Coach project teams on the fundamentals of project risk management and guide projects in the application of appropriate risk practices.
  • Support the development of standard risk management procedures, tools, reporting, and training.
• Function as a Project Controls Analyst (approximately 50%), in conjunction with the project's Control Account Managers (CAMs), to:
  • Develop and maintain assigned work breakdown structure (WBS) and dictionary, resource loaded schedules, cost estimates

• Provide day-to-day support to the project with schedule and cost maintenance and status, forecasting and conducting  what-if analysisGenerate monthly reports on project status and performance

• Support the CAMs and project management staff in preparing for various project reviews, including internal and external project status reviews.
• Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.

 

 

Basic Qualifications:

 

• A BS or BA degree in project or construction management, business, engineering or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience successfully performing project controls duties as noted above.
• Experience with project controls best practices regarding scope, time, cost, change and risk management; and a complete understanding of EIA-748 compliant EVM.
• Experience with Primavera P6 or comparable scheduling software
• Experience with Deltek Acumen Risk or similar quantitative risk analysis tools

 

Preferred Qualifications:

 

• Project Management Professional (PMP), Risk Management Professional (PMI_RMP), or other similar certification.
• A MS degree in project or construction management, business, engineering or equivalent.
• Experience successfully performing project controls duties as noted above for research-based project(s) within the DOE Office of Science within a national laboratory environment.
• Project experience working within an EVMS environment compliant with EIA-748.
• Experience with fusion energy projects.
• Proficient in understanding how projects are developed and executed within the various stages of the project lifecycle.
• Familiarity with industry guidance in risk management (for example, AACE RPs on risk and PMI’s risk management knowledge area) and understand how to apply risk management processes to capital projects.
• Experience with pre