Position Summary
This position will support the Tank Waste Operations (TWO) and Waste Treatment, and Immobilization Plant (WTP) project controls division. In this role, the Project Controls professional is responsible for integrating, analyzing, and reporting schedule and cost performance across the Tank Waste Mission. Will ensure alignment with project requirements by managing schedule inputs, assessing constraints, and monitoring critical and driving paths. Provides data-driven insights, monthly financial and schedule analyses, and Earned Value Management (EVM) oversight to support decision-making. Also develops high-quality Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs) in compliance with DOE standards, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and a well-documented basis of estimate.
Key Responsibilities
- Obtain and maintain the required schedule inputs from WTP and the Tank Waste Mission.
- Identify schedule constraints and assess their impact on the integrated project schedule; ensure alignment with overall schedule requirements.
- Monitor and report on driving paths, critical path activities, and overall schedule performance for the project.
- Collect, analyze, and present data to support project reporting needs.
- Recommend schedule improvement opportunities to the project team for evaluation and decision-making.
- Provide Project Controls oversight for assigned capital projects in accordance with Earned Value Management (EVM) principles.
- Prepare and deliver monthly schedule and cost analyses, including financial summaries, to support project management decisions.
- Develop and communicate recommended corrective actions to project managers to recover cost and schedule variances and maintain alignment with the established baseline.
- Ensure identified risks and opportunities are actively tracked, monitored, and communicated in accordance with project risk management processes.
- Prepare Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs) that meet DOE guidance for accuracy, completeness, and a well-documented basis of estimate, including assumptions, sources, and methodology.
- Ensure estimates are accurate, comprehensive, and well-supported, reflecting all possible cost elements without omissions or duplication, consistent with DOE cost-quality criteria.
Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or business management. Eight years of experience may be substituted for a BS/BA degree.
- At least ten (10) years of directly applicable successful experience consulting or contributing on complex projects, including providing strategic, management, technical, or business assistance to significant projects or programs in a senior capacity and/or as a consultant, preferably on a WTP project.
- Experience with researching and navigating complex federal regulations.
- Expert level with Microsoft 365.
- Expert level in Cobra and Primavera (P6) scheduling software.
- Proficient in DOE's program management practices, policies, and procedures.
- Exceptional communication skills.
