Project Controls Specialist-Resiliency

Requisition Number: 2607

Job Title: Project Controls Specialist III-Resiliency

Date Opened: 2/17/2025

Location: New Orleans, LA

Industry: Utilities

Department: Project Controls

Employment Type: FT Regular

Part-Time Available: No

Eligible for US Work Authorization Sponsorship: No

Candidate must reside within commuting distance to New Orleans for hybrid schedule prior to starting employment.

Job Summary:

The Project Controls Specialist III is a senior level position that works directly with the Program Manager of the Resiliency Program. The Project Controls Specialist III will work with the project schedulers, cost analysts, and Business Intelligence analysts to gather and develop reports, Power Point presentations, and narratives required by internal and external stakeholders. This position will also be a key point of contact for upper management to discuss high-visibility projects and process development/improvement for the Program Management team.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist Program Manager with oversight of the Resiliency Project portfolio.

• Study and understand all relevant program documents pertaining to the preparation of reports, presentations, and narratives.

• Monitor progress against project schedule and prepare progress reports for all Resiliency projects.

• Gather accurate progress and expended cost information at relevant time intervals.

• Prepare, review, and ensure the timely issue of all relevant reports to stakeholders.

• Verbally and in writing advise project management and discipline personnel on impacts,

contingencies and generally guide the scopes towards the earliest possible finish.

• Analyze progress and effects on schedule and advise necessary corrective actions.

• Track actual costs and prepare cost forecasts.

• Review and analyze large datasets to meet ad hoc requests by management and external stakeholders.

• Quickly understand reporting needs, identify and communicate with stakeholders to get required data, develop reports and/or presentations.

Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):

Basic or Minimum Requirements

• Requires at least 5 years of Project Controls related experience

• Requires an understanding of scheduling software and the data they produce (MS Project, Primavera P6)

• Must be able to effectively communicate with project stakeholders and upper management.

• Requires a basic working knowledge of project management software, specifically Primavera P6 and Excel.

• Requires the ability to manage multiple projects and determine priorities

• Must be a skilled writer

• Must understand the basic principles of project management

• Requires a general understanding of Cost Management, Estimating and Change Control

• Must have a high degree of computer literacy

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred

• Previous experience in the Utility industry preferred

Working Conditions:

• Work is conducted in an office environment (Private or Semi-Private Office) and requires occasional travel to off-site work locations (work may be primarily completed remotely).

• Field duties require outdoor work in a plant or construction atmosphere

• Interaction with other team members, as well as supervisors and client personnel

• Working plant, construction, and/or shop areas around production machinery with extreme noise levels

• Must be able to wear safety equipment as required by the safety department for personal protection

• May be at more than one job site in a day and must be able to tolerate climate changes

• May be required to travel out of town on a periodic basis.

Physical Requirements (With or Without Reasonable Accommodations):

• Must be able to lift and carry 5 pounds

• Sufficient clarity of speech and hearing or other communication capabilities, with or without reasonable accommodation, which permits employee to communicate effectively

• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation

• Sufficient vision or other powers of observation, with or without reasonable accommodations, which permits employee to conduct analysis and investigations

• Sufficient manual dexterity with or without reasonable accommodation, which permit the employee to perform routine office duties

• Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, with or without reasonable accommodations to perform office duties and travel when necessary to off-site locations

This job description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty required of the position given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of management to assign, direct and control the work of employees under supervision. The listing of duties and responsibilities shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of similar kind or level of difficulty.

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