Project Controls Specialist II

The Boldt Company (Boldt) is a leading professional construction services firm with customers across the United States and is a subsidiary of The Boldt Group. Founded in 1889, Boldt is a fourth-generation family and employee-owned firm headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin. Boldt is recognized as a pioneer in Lean construction and in the industrialized construction space. Boldt operates 18 offices across the U.S. that serve customers in healthcare, power, industrial, education, automotive and commercial markets.

Who we are: 

Build your career with Boldt. As a member of the Boldt team, you’ll collaborate with some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the construction industry. You’ll have the chance to learn new skills and seek greater responsibilities with a team that builds real value in the world around you. You’ll succeed in a workplace culture that recognizes, respects, and values differences. Boldt’s focus on innovation, collaboration, and employee development provides an opportunity for all our employees to Build Boldly.

How your role fits into Boldt:
The Project Controls Specialist II plays a key role in developing, maintaining, and analyzing the project schedule, working closely with project controls and project management teams to ensure accurate planning, tracking, and forecasting. This role also supports budget oversight, monitors performance, prepares schedule-driven projections based on trending data, analyzes schedule deviations, and identifies opportunities to enhance schedule efficiency and overall project outcomes. Project Specialists will be involved in multiple phases of construction projects from award to close-out and will work with various systems and reports in the performance of project controls duties. Responsibilities may vary between working with a single large project or with multiple smaller projects simultaneously.

What you get to do:

• Assist project controls leadership in implementing processes to achieve the schedule and financial objectives of projects. Solicit current and forecasted cost information from all project-specific trade partners.
• Understand the contract terms and conditions, and support project management in ensuring the contract's schedule and financial requirements are fulfilled.
• Work with various contract types such as lump sum, guaranteed maximum price, and integrated lean project delivery and apply project control measures appropriate for each type of project.
• Provide input on the development of an appropriate work breakdown structure of sub-jobs, cost codes, and categories to optimally manage the project budget, schedule, and production management processes.
• Review the project estimates with the project team to understand the scope, work breakdown structure, self-perform areas, subcontracted areas, and general requirements.
• Assist in uploading project estimates from the estimating system to the project financial management
• Assist with project and job setup in the accounting system; including, job information entry, cost codes and categories assignment, and workflow key players designations.
• Participate in the development of project-specific plans for successfully implementing appropriate controls processes and tools vital for achieving financial and schedule objectives.
• Support creation and maintenance of project production management plan, including master schedule, production strategy, constraint removal, make work ready, weekly and daily plan, and production tracking.
• Assemble and analyze productivity measurements and progress metrics to identify trends, and use expected future performance to forecast likely outcomes, then compare to estimated amounts to understand variances. Communicate findings to project leadership and together pursue opportunities for improvement.
• Compile earned value reporting by incorporating financial and schedule plan and performance information together in the form of percent earned graphs, labor curves, and cashflow graphs to communicate potential variances from expectations to project team.
• Assist project teams in analyzing project costs for labor, materials, subcontracts, and general conditions to update the revenue, cost, and profit projection at completion and identify variances with the budget.
• Work with project management to identify deviations from contracted project scope and prepare documentation and pricing for submitting change requests to customer for compensation.
• Attend monthly project review meetings to discuss the status of project financial and schedule performance, projections, cash position, labor, productivity, earned value, risks and opportunities; then develop strategies for achieving or surpassing objectives for these areas.
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