Sr. Project Controls Specialist

• Develop and maintain integrated project-controls plans covering cost, schedule, risk, change management, progress measurement, forecasting, and earned value management.
• Establish work breakdown structures, cost breakdown structures, organizational breakdown structures, control accounts, coding structures, and reporting requirements.
• Support the development and maintenance of integrated project schedules, cost baselines, performance measurement baselines, and project forecasts.
• Coordinate cost and schedule information to ensure project reporting reflects a consistent and supportable execution forecast.
• Monitor budgets, commitments, expenditures, accruals, actual costs, forecasts, contingency, and estimate-at-completion values.
• Analyze schedule progress, critical and near-critical paths, total float, milestone performance, constraints, and forecast completion dates.
• Develop and maintain project risk registers, facilitate risk reviews, and support qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.
• Evaluate the potential cost and schedule effects of identified risks and opportunities.
• Support the implementation of earned value management methodologies appropriate to each project’s size, complexity, and reporting requirements.
• Calculate and analyze earned value metrics, including planned value, earned value, actual cost, schedule variance, cost variance, schedule performance index, and cost performance index.
• Develop and maintain objective progress-measurement methods and rules of credit.
• Perform variance, trend, productivity, performance, and estimate-at-completion analyses.
• Identify deviations from approved baselines and work with project teams to determine root causes and corrective actions.
• Develop forward-looking forecasts using current cost, schedule, risk, and performance information.
• Support project change control by evaluating proposed changes and documenting their potential effects on scope, budget, schedule, risk, and performance baselines.
• Maintain change logs and track approved, pending, and potential changes through resolution.
• Review contractor and vendor cost reports, schedules, progress measurements, forecasts, and supporting documentation.
• Evaluate contractor reporting for completeness, accuracy, logic, consistency, and alignment with project requirements.
• Prepare recurring project-controls reports, dashboards, variance narratives, trend analyses, risk summaries, and executive-level presentations.
• Communicate significant performance issues, emerging risks, forecast changes, and required management decisions to project managers and PMO leadership.
• Facilitate project-controls meetings, schedule reviews, cost reviews, risk workshops, forecasting sessions, and performance reviews.
• Support scenario planning, what-if analysis, recovery planning, and evaluation of alternative execution strategies.
• Reconcile project-controls information with procurement, contract, invoice, and financial-system data.
• Assist the corporate PMO in establishing standardized project-controls procedures, templates, metrics, governance, and reporting practices.
• Support project closeout by reconciling final costs, documenting schedule performance, closing risks and changes, and capturing lessons learned.
• Perform primarily office and non-manual work.
• Perform work related to the management or general business operations of MATRIX or its customers/clients, while exercising discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance to MATRIX and its customers/clients.
• Interface with managers or head of a unit/department requiring the integration of multiple functional organizations.
• Use “lessons learned” to improve quality of MATRIX’s future projects; make recommendations to MATRIX as to the implementations of future policies and procedures.

• Demonstrated experience providing integrated project-controls support for major capital or construction projects.
• Strong working knowledge of project cost control, scheduling, risk management, change control, forecasting, and earned value management methodologies.
• Experience developing and maintaining cost and schedule baselines and integrated performance measurement baselines.
• Proficiency in critical path method scheduling, schedule logic, progress measurement, float analysis, baselining, and forecasting.
• Experience managing project budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, contingency, and estimates at completion.
• Experience developing and analyzing earned value metrics and performance indicators.
• Ability to integrate cost, schedule, risk, change, and progress information into a comprehensive assessment of project performance.
• Experience identifying project trends, evaluating potential impacts, and supporting corrective or recovery actions.
• Experience reviewing contractor and vendor project-controls deliverables.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex project data from multiple sources.
• Ability to clearly communicate project performance, risks, variances, and forecasts to project teams and senior leadership.
• Strong organizational, facilitation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Advanced proficiency with scheduling, cost-management, spreadsheet, data-analysis, and reporting tools. Strong understanding of critical path method scheduling, schedule logic, float analysis, baselining, progress measurement, forecasting, and schedule change management.
• The ability to communicate well both verbally and written as a business necessity to ensure the safe and efficient operations of business. Clear, concise, and effective fluency in the English language is essential.

• Experience scheduling specialty metals, chemical processing, advanced manufacturing, or similarly complex industrial construction projects.
• Experience supporting a corporate PMO or standardized project-controls organization.
• Experience configuring and administering project schedules within Oracle Primavera Cloud.
• Familiarity with cost-loaded and resource-loaded schedules.
• Experience integrating schedule information with cost controls, risk management, procurement tracking, and executive dashboards.
• Experience supporting projects from early planning and design through construction, commissioning, start-up, and final turnover

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