Senior Project Control Specialist

K&A Power Group – is a privately held engineering firm delivering worldclass technical expertise and engineering excellence to power utility and industrial clients across the United States, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. We provide comprehensive consulting, engineering and design, program and project management, construction management, and EPC services, specializing in substation, transmission, distribution, and distributed energy resources.

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We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior Project Controls Specialist to join our team at K&A Power Group in Westwood, MA. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting and challenging projects that make a real impact in the energy and utility sectors. You’ll be part of a dynamic, people-focused team where your expertise, ideas, and contributions will be valued and celebrated.

Role Expectations:

• Capable of Designing and overseeing the installation and implementation of a Project Controls, Program Management, and Management Information System on a global, company-wide basis, or for a very large project or program. Understands the ‘big picture’ objectives of the client’s long-range capital investment and program needs.
• Will develop Resource Management and Cost Management protocols, Resource Needs Analysis and Optimization strategies, Work Breakdown, Cost Breakdown, and Organizational Breakdown Structures.
• Assists Client with Development and Implementation of Industry Best Practices, Strategic Planning, and Training/Mentoring.
• Maintain and manage Project Schedules from initiation through closeout that primarily support the Transmission Organization: Capital Projects, Maintenance Projects and Distribution Projects Managed by Transmission.
• Support Different Management Organizations (Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Permitting, Others) by having properly Resource Loaded schedules, with reflective logic and duration that will inform about resources over allocation, under absorption, ability to move forward in the project due to internal / external constraints.
• Develop, maintain, analyze, and manage project activities and resources to the level necessary to support project and department requirements and needs.
• Implements and stewards Baseline Management for both cost and schedule to track variances from approved cost budgets, schedules and design scopes of work.
• Ensures project baselines in cost, schedule and scope are established and monitored against actual project performance.
• Ensures desired Project Cost Control / Baseline Management philosophies and processes are reflected in the newly implemented Project Management Information System (PMIS) e-Builder.
• Communicate project status and resource loading with team members and management.
• Anticipate project plan changes and advise team members and management of potential project impacts, conflicts and solutions for meeting project timeline/milestone objectives
• Monitor and perform schedule updates based on various Owner’s metrics, such as Schedule Adherence, Schedule Health, and Executive Dashboard reports.
• Coordinate internal and external reallocation resources to accommodate changes and conflicts.
• Evaluate key functional department forecasts to assure desired project performance results are achieved.
• Initiate actions and assist in developing alternative solutions resolving potential project impacts, resource constraints, schedule conflicts and cost overruns.
• Provide consulting and support services in the areas of project controls, including leading and directing project cost management a