Project Control Specialist

Description:

Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Project Controls Specialist on a starting 6-12 month ongoing contract based in Stafford (Hybrid).

The role falls INSIDE IR35

Responsibilities of the Project Controls Specialist:

She/he is key member of the project team and the “right hand” of the PM, they are responsible for two main functions… cost and scheduling

Scheduling
- Develop tender schedules using the established tools and processes and challenges the team to ensure schedule risk is managed with a balance of competitive offering aligned to historical performance
- Develops and maintains the single project schedule representing the entire project by integrating inputs from all functions , units and third parties contributing to the project
- Ensure proper linkages in schedule to show all interdependencies between contributing parties
- Ensure functional owners sign off on commitments and are made accountable for their date
- Work collaboratively with other overall project planning team to ensure optimal alignment of schedule with overall schedule
- Delivers a high quality schedule aligned with global standards to ensure project is accurately represented
- Maintains schedule thru the entire project obtaining inputs from all project contributors
- Drives regular operating rhythm with project team to review schedule status and operating rhythm
- Challenges functional owners on forecast completion dates to ensure dates are realistic
- Provides schedule analysis to forecast schedule risk and opportunities using available tools and experience
- Provides look ahead, backlog and future late reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities
- Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility
- Provides strategies to mitigate risks
- Drives functional owners to mitigate risks and follows up with functional owners on risk mitigation actions
- Provide and communicate regular status reporting
- Provides contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters

Cost Controlling
- Ensure the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
- Ensure budgeted values are aligned with historical performance
- Reviews project schedule and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities
- Reviews project scope evolution to identify cost risk and opportunities
- Reviews functional execution and events to identify cost risks and opportunities
- Provide cost analytics using project information and analysing cost and productivity trends
- Own and drive the Budget Deviation Process with tools
- Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities
- Develops cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where needed
- Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
- Communicates cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
- Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status and actions
- Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
- Provide time based cost forecasts to support revenue recognition
- Analyse all the risks and opportunities communicate clearly priorities and potential impacts

- Support change order analysis

- Support claim preparations