Responsibilities:
· Create and maintain project plans — define activities, work breakdown structures, predecessors, successors, resources, and baselines
· Prepare business cases, contingency releases, and manage project budgets within established project governance rules
· Develop, monitor, and update cash flow projections
· Ensure project scope control and documentation is maintained
· Analyze and report on variances for project cost and schedule
· Create and maintain Excel spreadsheets for reporting and analysis
· Measure the progress of activities and milestones in project plans
· Lead meetings for project scoping, constructability review, design review, competitive bid, construction inspection, commissioning, and as-built incorporation.
· Negotiate and execute contracts, process change orders and report actual costs
· Drive consensus, communicate responsibilities, and ensure ownership and accountability
· Arbitrate and resolve conflicts within the project
· Manage change control, involving project sponsor and stakeholders
· Conduct design and drawing reviews on-site with various project stakeholders to identify and mitigate any issues and challenges identified during this process
· Prepare and present timely and actionable status updates
· Facilitate focused and cross-functional meetings and calls
· Draft and communicate meeting minutes, risk registers, decision logs and status reports
· Represent the client to government agencies and make presentations to senior management and stakeholders
· Work with various government entities in submitting and obtaining permit approvals
· Interact with customers concerning land rights
· Lead the project team in identifying, tracking, and mitigating risks, issues, and opportunities
· Escalate risks and issues in order to keep projects on schedule and on budget
· Identify and communicate lessons learned and incorporate into projects as best practices