Project Controls Engineer

Overview

The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas building program for the Department of State. Working with other offices and bureaus, foreign affairs agencies, and Congress, OBO’s challenge is to set worldwide priorities for the design, construction, acquisition, maintenance, use, and sale of real properties and the use of sales proceeds.

 

Construction and Security Management Directorate (CSM), Office of Construction Management (CM), Is responsible for OBO’s construction program, including leading the coordination of the contractual design activities, in conjunction with other offices, on design/build projects and construction and commissioning on design/build and design/bid/build projects. CSM/CM provides management oversight and on-site construction supervision for OBO worldwide construction program.

Responsibilities

As a Project Controls Engineer assigned to the Controls Branch of OBO/CSM/CM/CS, the contractor serves as a Schedule Control Engineer (SCE) assigned to one or more of the Department’s overseas facility construction projects and performs a wide range of engineering-related functions in support of the planning, implementation, and oversight of the assigned project(s). The contractor provides engineering expertise to, and works with, assigned project team members to set the highest possible priority to achieve effectiveness in meeting the scope, schedule, and cost goals of the OBO construction management project. The contractor must be fluent in all technical requirements of the project, including those related to other engineering disciplines and architecture, as well as in a full range of administrative requirements:

 

• Serves as a member of Technical Evaluation Panels (TEPs) for the evaluation of bid proposal project execution schedules.
• Actively participates in project kick-off meetings with the contractor awarded the project and provides general comments on the Division 1 Project Scheduling specification and on schedule development and use on the project.
• Reviews OBO project execution schedules (PESs) developed by construction contractors awarded the work; and prepares and submit comments based on technical errors or omissions from the PES to the Project Director (PD) and to appropriate OBO management personnel.
• Reviews contractors pay applications to determine conformance with the updated project execution schedule.
• Performs annual review of OBO Division 1 Project Scheduling specification for necessary changes based on lessons learned, technical clarity, and discovered errors.
• Evaluates new projects to determine estimated construction duration to be used as the basis for the OBO Request for Proposal.
• Evaluates the contractor’s Request for Equitable Adjustment (REA), Time Impact Analyses (TIA), and claims to determine their validity, and apportions responsibility between contractor and
• Meets with the contractor’s project control engineer to discuss appropriate PES development for compliance with the Contract Division 1 Project Scheduling specification, good scheduling practice, and what data should be presented to OBO.
• Trains CSM office and field personnel in the use, importance, and evaluation of the project execution schedule.
• Maintains competence and awareness of state-of-the-art through training for professional development and completion of courses required by OBO at the Foreign Service Institute or outside training vendor.
• Travels on a temporary duty (TDY) basis to project locations worldwide as requirements are
• Develops PES fragments to detail the schedule elements of commissioning, accreditation, and close-out procedures.
• Requests through the IDIQ Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) that a scheduling consultant be issued a task order to perform scheduling support services as workload increases; provides technical direction to the scheduling consultant; monitors the consultant’s work and reports; and serves as the liaison between the consultant and project management; and
• Performs special projects as management may require, such as TDY replacement of project personnel, research data on past projects, development of schedule analysis tools, etc.

Qualifications

• Mastery of, and skill in applying, general theories, concepts, principles, and methodologies in a variety of engineering disciplines sufficient to anticipate, investigate, evaluate, and resolve a wide range of engineering problems and issues arising from the scheduling of overseas facility construction projects; to evaluate, advise on, oversee, or direct contracted work to ensure its quality and compliance with plans, designs, and specifications; to prepare a variety of engineering reports, contractual change orders, fact sheets, and correspondence; and to anticipate, investig