Project Controls Specialist Ii - Construction

Job Description
HOW YOUR ROLE FITS INTO BOLDT:
The Project Controls Specialist II works closely with other Project Controls and construction project management teams to monitor project budget and schedule performance, prepare projections of potential results based on trending data, analyze deviations from expectations, and find opportunities for improving the outcomes of the project. 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.
Honesty, fairness, hard work, performance, and a love of construction are what we value.
The ideal team player at Boldt is humble, hungry, smart, reliable & gritty.
Required Skills
What you get to do:

• Assist Project Controls leadership in implementing processes to achieve the financial and schedule 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 financial and schedule 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 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.
• Support Project Controls leadership in performing project accounting audits by customers as required.

Complete financial reporting and analysis as necessary to support project, operating group, and corporate objectives.
Required Experience
What we expect from you:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Project Controls, Business Administration, or Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of related construction Project Controls experience required.
• In-depth knowledge of construction Project Controls principles and project management processes.
• Skilled in Microsoft Word and Outlook, proficient in Microsoft Excel, familiar with project management systems, and knowledgeable of Power BI beneficial.
• This role may require a valid Driver's License and clear Motor Vehicle Report.