Senior Project Controls Specialist

Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI) provides expert management consulting, program and project management, and technical consulting services to government and private-sector clients. SMSI has built a strong reputation for client-focused performance, delivering innovative solutions and measurable results that help clients achieve their goals, meet critical commitments, and successfully reach key milestones.

Job Summary

SMSI is seeking a Senior Project Controls Specialist to support our client, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC. This individual will provide advanced project controls, planning, scheduling, and analytical support for complex projects, ensuring effective cost and schedule management throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for organizing, developing, analyzing, and maintaining project controls, financial analysis or estimating applications required to monitor established objectives, and to prepare status and management reports that identify variances in the work execution strategy and recommend solutions.
• Provide management with the capability of maintaining cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of a complex project or work activity.
• Under limited supervision, performs moderately complex Planning & Scheduling activities.
• Develop, analyze, implement and maintain all complex divisional or project logic driven, integrated, resource loaded schedules through short, mid-range, and long-range planning.
• Formulate and define schedule logic to ensure meeting baseline milestones and award fee objectives.
• Analyze schedule performance for progress and trends and recommend corrective actions to remove or mitigate potential problems or constraints
• Review established planning technology and methodology. Recommend improvements or alternatives in order to maximize utilization of department schedules and resources.
• Demonstrate proficient ability and knowledge in the development of project milestone schedules to establish optimum conditions and effective utilization of resources.
• Analyze variance from the schedule baseline and make recommendations to management for corrective action.
• Provide supervision and guidance to others in planning and scheduling activities along with oversight and monitoring of essential or critical planning activities.
• Maintain a major involvement in the regular interfaces with all levels of management.
• Lead schedule review meetings or assume primary role in the responsibility for the scheduling portion of the division, department or project Plan of the Day Meeting (POD). Provide and disseminate guidance, instruction and rules for proper and effective scheduling functions within the area assigned.
• May assume a lead role in planning/scheduling of a single large project, facility, or a single department or program.

Required Skills/ Abilities

• Demonstrated strong personal computer skills and proficiency in utilizing automated accounting, budgeting, cost management, and estimating systems to support job-related responsibilities.
• Working knowledge of project management principles, including tactical-level cost and schedule control, as well as operations, maintenance, project startup, and construction activities.
• Estimating Specialty: Demonstrated expertise in conceptual estimating, coordination with technical personnel, interfacing with engineering teams, and knowledge of field construction methods, labor requirements, and equipment needs.
• Ability to apply established concepts and methodologies to assess and quantify the cost impacts associated with varying work conditions.
• Experience with the following systems is required: PeopleSoft, Primavera P6, OAS, and COBRA.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must be able to provide a valid REAL ID.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) "Q" security clearance. An active DOE clearance is not required at the time of hire.

Desired Skills

• Candidates who have possessed an active DOE clearance (L or Q) within the past two (2) years are preferred.

Education

• A master’s degree in business, construction management, a technical or engineering discipline, or a related field, along with 2 years of practical experience; OR
• A bachelor’s degree in business, construction management, a technical or engineering discipline, or a related field, along with 5 years of practical experience; OR
• An associate degree along with 8 years of practical experience; OR
• A high school diploma along with 12 years of relevant experience.
• Each of the above combinations will be considered equivalent.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.