Your impact
As a key member of our team, you’ll provide the day-to-day leadership, support and execution of project controls functions for the projects and program. You will be responsible for budget/cost control, change management and schedule monitoring, analysis, forecasting, and reporting. You’ll report directly to the Jacobs Program Director, but manage and solely be responsible to oversee and manage all project and program budget/cost controls, change management, schedule and reporting functions, updates, and presentations to all levels of management with Jacobs and the client.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee project budget/cost management (e.g., project cost and commitments tracking, project cost forecast, labor, and other direct costs monitoring)
- Oversee the preparation of project monthly reports, weekly change management reports and the program’s online dashboard
- Ability to create and updates CPM schedules in P6. Additionally, to be able to analyze weekly and monthly the CM/GC’s CPM schedule to ensure proper planning, updates, status, etc and thereby making recommendations for improvement. Also to review TIAs and recovery schedules if/when needed
- Support and lead the team on all project budget, funding, and invoice related issues
- Develop and evaluate major program cost estimates and extended budget projections to identify and quantify critical budgetary, cost, schedule, technical, and programmatic risk factors
- Collaboratively work with the CM/GC PMs, PEs and when necessary Superintendents on issues regarding change management and schedule. In addition to utilizing the Jacobs PMs and CMs to support your leadership for overall change management processes
- Review or Create contract Work Orders/Field Orders/Purchase Orders, independent cost estimates, requisitions, and other procurement functions as needed
- Participate in program/project progress and status review meetings
- Communicate schedule status on a regular basis via formal and informal meetings and reports.
- Contributes to development of new techniques and standards
- Independently applies advanced techniques and analysis
- Review vendor and CM invoices and pay applications
Here's what you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Project Management, Construction Management, or equivalent relevant work experience
- 10+ years of project cost controls and project/construction management experience
- 10+ years of experience with Primavera P6 scheduling projects, programs, and portfolios
- Specific experience in cost engineering functions, including cost estimating, cost control, change management, risk management, cost analysis and variance analysis
- Ability to develop and evaluate major program cost estimates and extended budget projections to identify and quantify critical budgetary, cost, schedule, technical, and programmatic risk factors
- Experience building and maintaining Primavera P6 resource loaded schedules
- Experience building and maintaining Primavera P6 cost loaded schedules supporting forecasting and multi-year planning
- Program Management related experience
- Willing and able to site onsite with the Project team at the client's site in Chicago, IL Monday - Friday
- Life Sciences, Advanced Facilities and/or Healthcare experience preferred but not required
Sponsorship is not available for this position.
