Lead Project Controls Engineer
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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Lead Project Controls Engineer to join our team!
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Establish and maintain project control systems, covering cost, schedule, and scope management.
- Develop work breakdown structures (WBS) and ensure accurate project tracking across all lots.
- Review DELIVERY CONTRACTORS schedules, progress reports, and forecasts for alignment with program objectives.
- Provide periodic progress and performance updates to the Program Director and stakeholders.
- Lead change management processes, ensuring proper assessment of impact on time, cost, and resources.
- Prepare and maintain project cost estimates, budgets, and forecasts, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
- Monitor project expenditures and cost trends, identifying potential variances from the approved budget.
- Collaborate with DELIVERY CONTRACTORS to review cost submissions, identify discrepancies, and propose corrections.
- Conduct value engineering and cost-benefit analyses to optimize project resources.
- Prepare detailed cost reports for stakeholders, including earned value analysis (EVA) and cost performance indicators (CPI).
- Support change management processes, assessing the cost impact of scope changes and variations.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant engineering (i.e. Mechanical, Civil, etc.)
- 15+ years of experience in project controls for largescale construction / utilities projects, 5 years experience as Lead Engineer
- 8+ years in cost engineering roles, preferably within largescale EPC Contractor projects
- GCC experience
- Analytical skills, communication, problem solving, and team leadership
- Proficiency in Primavera P6, MS Project, Primavera Risk Analysis and cost control software.
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