Role: Project Controls Analyst
Location: Fredericton, NB
Duration: 6 months
Hours: 40hrs/wk
Job Overview
The Project Controls Analyst (PCA) will be primarily responsible for project schedules, cost by developing baselines, tracking performance and forecasting outcomes using project management tools. The Project Controls Analyst participates in planning, budgeting, contracting, and other project management activities for the purpose of establishing and maintaining appropriate plans, schedule, and budgets in support of the project activities
The job responsibilities include:
- Prepares monthly cost and schedule reports (PBI) for investment governance.
- Identify errors or inconsistencies in cost and schedule data and coordinates corrections with project team.
- Verify contractor progress claims against physical progress.
- Support risk management, change control and stakeholder communication
- Preparing/assisting project documents preparation at various stages of project during its life cycle.
- Gather, analyze, and report project actuals (task progress and cost) versus planned values in summary and detailed formats
- Track and manages revisions to the project schedule and cost forecasts.
- Establish and maintain project schedules, budget and tracking of actual costs for the purpose of reporting on project progress, cost and variance.
- Develop and maintain cost and schedule forecasts for use in managing the project to completion.
- Ensure compatibility of project plans, schedules, estimates, risk plans, related operations, and maintenance work.
- Monitor, identify, and highlight schedule critical path, non-critical activities and risks.
- Monitor and enforce the quality of project schedules, estimates, budgets, costs and related reports.
- Ensure appropriate industry practices are used in project work plans and schedules.
- Instruct other team members in learning, establishing, and using appropriate industry practices in contracting, making progress payments, cost analysis, tracking costs, and reporting on costs.
- Gather, merge, analyze, reconcile, and report on project progress including Earned Value Analysis (EVA).
- Identify risks, current and emerging issues in accordance with project risk and issue management practices.
- Provide input to formal project reporting in support of the Project Manager.
- Establish and maintain other project controls as required e.g., documentation, etc.
- Manage changes to the work through facilitating the appropriate level approval of change management documents.
- Prepare month-end accruals for work.
- Where required, facilitate independent auditing or sample auditing by internal auditors.
- Coordinate close-out activities e.g., initiate financial closeout, contribute to Benefits Realization report, participate in lessons learned discussions, etc.
Required Skills, Experience and Education
- Previous utility and/or wind farm experience
- At least five years of progressively responsible work experience in project controls with large capital projects, preferably, with electrical utility sector experience.
- Experience in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel, and scheduling tools, such as Microsoft Project and/or proficiency with Primavera Version 6.
- Functional knowledge of SAP Enterprise Management System input and reporting.
- Ability ion tracking multiple projects simultaneously. Strong ability to develop, maintain, and analyse integrated project schedules including critical path and schedule risk.
- Ability in tracking costs and efforts spent of each project. Proficient in budget establishment, cost tracking, variance analysis, and forecasting across multi‑year capital projects.
- Experience in applying earned value management to assess performance against baseline scope, schedule, and cost.
- Maintain project schedules and progress. Change and baseline management.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a proven team player with experience providing leadership, support and consultation.
- University degree in Engineering or Business Administration or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience in project planning, scheduling, cost control and risk management areas.
- Experience in in the field of estimating/cost engineering would be considered and asset.
- Formal training in project management methodologies. Certification as a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or as a Project Management Professional (PMP) would be considered an asset work experience and/or accreditation in the areas of Safety inspection.
- Document creation and editing (MS Office Products such as Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Excel).
- Certification in the estimating/cost engineering field would be considered an asset (e.g. AACE International’s Certified Estimating Professional (CEP) designation, The Construction Institute of Canada’s (TCIC) Gold Seal Certification or International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association’s (ICEAA) Certified Cost Estimator/ Analyst (CCEA®)).
- Proficiency with Primavera® Version 6, MS Project as well as functional knowledge of SAP Enterprise Management System input and reporting.
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