Lead Project Controls Specialist

2 weeks ago

Cambridge, Canada BWX Technologies Full time

BWXT Canada Ltd. is a world leader in design, engineering, manufacture, construction and service of nuclear power generation equipment. As a supplier of innovative, high-quality nuclear components and services we cater to a worldwide customer base. We take great pride in supplying highly engineered solutions that allow our customers to compete within the complex nuclear power generation industry._

We are seeking a Lead Project Controls Specialist for our Cambridge, Ontario facility.

JOB PURPOSE

The Lead Project Controls Specialist is a combination of a team lead and a direct contributor role. The team lead aspect is accountable to manage work assignments, problem solve to meet team deadlines, perform peer reviews, develop/maintain metrics and maintain systems data. The direct contributor aspect is responsible for planning and estimating the project, including all required resources and materials to do the work, consistent with project scope, commercial requirements, customer needs, and business requirements. Once a job is won, they take primary responsibility for cost management and reporting, and project status reporting (cost and schedule status, Key Performance Indicators [KPIs]), both internally and with the customer.

This position reports to the Manager, Commercial Operations Support. The integration and communication with other departments is imperative to success and these include Project Management, Timekeeping & Cost Coordinators, Project Accounting and Operations.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Team Lead
- Manage teamwork assignments.
- Coordinate deadlines from internal/external customers with the Project Controls team and present solutions.
- Peer review Estimates and Schedules.
- Develop team metrics, review status weekly, drive compliance to dates and monitor/act upon data.
- Engage stakeholders to quickly resolve commercial issues.
- Coach and mentor other staff.
- Analyze project controls tools/reports, present findings, provide recommendations and lead improvement initiatives.
- Create master project plan data for management resource load forecasting.
- Coordinate revenue forecasts with Project Management and Accounting.
- Prepare final invoice balancing against customer master agreements (e.g. GMAX).
- Audit and enforce compliance with internal/external customer deliverables and tools.
- Follow invoicing metrics and coordinate tasks between departments to achieve target due dates.
- Lead high profile/major proposal estimates.

Proposal Estimating
- Develop labour hour estimates based on information provided from various sources, including customer specifications, engineering packages, historical returns, department inputs, etc.
- Integrate non-labour costs into the comprehensive estimate, including such items as materials, equipment, consumables, etc.
- Work with operating groups to review scope and identify and define all cost estimate elements.
- Provide commercial support to proposals, including proposal pricing, sell price analysis, cash flows, etc.

Proposal Project Planning
- Develop schedules for proposal consistent with the proposal estimate.
- Ensure that all schedule issues with cost impacts are adequately addressed in cost estimate.
- Work with schedule stakeholders, utilizing the scope list to define the project work breakdown and activity sequence to develop a project critical path.
- Optimize the project plan by utilizing the correct number of resources, sequencing activities, etc.

Project Planning, Scheduling
- Break down the proposal estimate and schedule into a detailed project baseline budget and schedule. Schedule is often a resource-loaded Primavera P6 schedule and knowledge of this scheduling platform is a requirement of the role (on-job training is provided when needed).
- Prepare and analyze various project metrics such as productivity, work down curves, etc.
- Integrate the project plan with a focus on both BWXT’s and customer’s requirements.
- Work with Project Team and prepare a baseline of the schedule (level 3 or 4) and monitor updates with reference to this baseline.
- Maintain alignment between project schedule, project budgets (labour hours, material dollars), project performance and related reports and deliverables.
- Involvement in related planning exercises dependent on project budgets and plans, such as department-level resource analysis (Master Project Plans, department loadboards, etc.).

Cost Management
- Decompose project budget into appropriate levels of task code for cost tracking and reporting.
- Prepare baseline budgets to support the as-sold work.
- Prepare periodic project cost reports (Earned Value analysis) to support the commercial reporting requirements of the project (e.g. monthly cost reviews, contractual customer cost reports, etc.).
- Maintain objective view on actual project costs, estimated values to complete, earned value and project productivity with the goal of providing line of sight to actual cost performance (past and forecasted) ov

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