Primary Purpose
Plans, monitors and manages internal projects from initiation through completion. Leads or coordinates project planning, resourcing, staffing, supply and subcontract management, progress reporting, troubleshooting and people management. Ensures project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule and cost. Monitors performance and recommend schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions. Responsibilities are within the Project/Program Management function as a generalist or in a combination of disciplines.
This is an exciting 1.5- 2-year rotation program for an Associate to learn wide aspects of Project Controls functions such as Cost Controls, Project Scheduling, Risk Management, Estimation, Reporting, and Quantity Survey for multibillion-dollar energy infrastructure projects. In this position, the Associate will go through four rotations in the Project Controls organization approximately every 5-6 months and learn the various roles of project controls. In this position you will learn and work on a wide range of energy infrastructure projects, including LNG, NetZero, pipeline and gas storage projects, and how the projects are managed and controlled. Minimum one rotation will be a role on a construction site (North America). The Associate will benefit from formal training courses, mentoring and coaching, feedback and evaluation, exposure to different projects and departments, and networking with senior leaders and peers. The assigned mentor will guide the project controls associate through the rotation period to maximize learning and career development opportunities in various functions. At the completion of the rotation program, the mentor and supervisors from each rotation will meet and identify the best opportunities for final placement. This is an incredibly opportunity to start off a career with a broad knowledge base in both project development and execute stages in project management.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Updates and organizes project documentation, ensuring completeness and accuracy.
- Prepares presentation materials for project updates.
- Update project plans to accommodate changing requirements.
- Maintains documentation procedures to facilitate tracking and critical path management.
- Identifies and escalates potential risks.
- Supports the upkeep of project dashboards and reporting tools to monitor progress.
- Understanding Energy Infrastructure Major Projects
- Learn Project Development process and Capital Value Process (How projects are developed and evaluated for funding eligibility) and depending on the rotation, develop project controls deliverables
- Learn about Energy Infrastructure projects, technologies, and Engineering and Construction process.
- Participate in project meetings.
- participate and engage in safety training which is mandatory for all employees going to a project site.
- Learn Project Controls Functions and Processes (Four rotations out of 6 functions)
- Project Controls Associate will be assigned to to four rotations as a part of the program and each rotation will be with a different discipline within project controls. This role will be trained on the basic Project Controls concepts and gain hands-on experience. A minimum of one rotation will be with the execution stage project controls team at a mega-project site (see other qualifications).
- In all rotations, the Project Controls Associate will be required to navigate the knowledge bank and review standards, processes and procedures and will support development or modification to current documents, based on lessons learned, as appropriate.
- Learn project scheduling concepts and techniques using Primavera 6. Support Project Schedulers with constructor schedule validation, schedule data analysis and schedule reporting. May also work on the development/update of integrated schedule that encompasses both contractor and owner's schedule activities during the development phase of projects.
- Learn cost analysis, budgeting, forecasting, contingency management and reporting. Learn project cost system, TM1. Assist Cost Controls team with invoice reviews and invoice tracking. Learn how the project budgets are established and actual and forecast variances are analyzed. Participate in the economic model update process for development projects.
- Learn estimation process and different classes of estimation. Participate in estimation development and validation process. Support the Estimation team with the large contract price validation effort. Review market data and support knowledge bank organization and develop and update the benchmarking repository.
- Learn different types of risk management concepts and assist risk management team with various risk analysis workshops, project risk data update, and contingency calculation using Monte Carlo Simulation method. Prepare presentations and participate in trend meetings and discussions, as appropriate.
- Learn project reporting. During the execute stage, support the project controls managers by gathering various project data, analyzing and developing weekly/monthly project reports. Coordinate with the functions for timely input into reports that get issue on a regular cadence. Develop presentation packages as required and may present at the project status meetings.
- Learn quantity survey process (this rotation will be onsite). Learn how to evaluate contractor's progress measurement system and perform field verifications and reporting of quantity progress. Attend progress report meetings and prepare data for reports and presentations. Review EPC invoices and backup documentation.
Requirements:
Education
- Typically requires a 4-year degree in a relevant field, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Preferably in engineering, accounting, finance, economics or related business administration field.
- GPA >3.0
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Project/Program Management - The process of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time.
- Communication Management - The systematic planning, implementing, monitoring, and revision of all the channels of communication within an organization and between organizations.
- KPI/Metric Monitoring - The monitoring of performance indicators that demonstrate how effectively a company is achieving key business objectives.
- Issue Resolution - Addressing problems that need to be solved, the decisions that need to be made, and the risks that need to be mitigated.
- Documentation and Records Management - Creating, distributing, using, maintaining and disposition of recorded information maintained as evidence of business activities and transactions.
- Project Risk Management - The process of identifying, analyzing and responding to any risk that arises over the life cycle of a project to help the project remain on track and meet its goal.
- Budget Management - Estimates revenue and expenses over a specified future period of time and re-evaluates these on a periodic basis.
- Project Quality Management - Ensures projects are delivered to an agreed quality.
- Data Analysis - Measuring and managing organization data, identifying methodological best practices and conducting statistical analyses.
- Requirements Management - The process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders.
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