Senior Project Specialist Job Description
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Senior Project Specialist Job Description
- Conducting in-depth assessments of capabilities in support of decision making on IT enterprise issues
- Supporting the development and implementation of IC functions
- Recommending innovative solutions for IC functions
- Supporting the preparation, production, and coordination of written products and briefings for senior IC members, policy makers, military decisions makers, members of Congress, and other major stakeholders
- Work with site maintenance, engineering and PMO to support strategic visions and goals for the program provide leadership to execute projects to achieve those goals
- Develop and manage detailed planning schedules utilizing Microsoft Project software
- Perform scheduling analysis and prepare and update project costs based on analysis
- Prepare reports in accordance with client requirements and advice on corrective action to recover deviations from plan, as necessary
- Be able to analyze quantities, production rate assumptions and level engineer’s estimate for construction planning and scheduling
- Evaluate project risks and produce risk analysis reports
- Local construction industry knowledge and experience a plus
- Significant demonstrated knowledge of an intelligence discipline and/or support discipline (information sharing, technology)
- Qualified applicants will be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum qualifications for access to classified information
- Prior experience with critical path scheduling and project/program cost management
- Manage the Project estimating function for all proposals for the office
- Manage procurement functions required for projects
Senior Project Specialist Job Description
- Contribute to business growth in EPCM services and program management
- Develop cost control/scheduling and the Project Management Plan for the project or program
- Analyzes variances in cost and schedule performance against the baseline estimate and schedule and communicates reasons for variances to relevant management entities
- Supervise the Cost Engineering efforts of the project to include preparation of cost report templates and monthly Cost and Change Management report deliverables
- Supervise the Scheduling efforts for the project to include the preparation and analysis of schedule baseline, progress schedules, specialty schedules, schedule analysis and integration of Earned Value Management system and project progress reporting
- Prepare DPM Design or PM for internal and external meetings providing backup documentation, data analysis,and reports to assist in the management of the project and dissemination of information/reports/deliverables to the PM, client, and stakeholders
- Prepare, edit, and publish reports in consistent, accurate and timely manner that reflect the current status of the project in formats acceptable to the client and stakeholders
- Create, edit and publish guidelines, manuals, and documents for use by Project staff including the Project Management Plan, Project Controls Manual, and monthly Project Progress Reports
- Leverages expertise from EDT staff to serve as a subject matter expert on all areas related to Document Controls, Cost/budget management, Scheduling and Earned Value Management activities
- Maintain collaborative relationships with the sponsors
- Experience working in a consulting environment at a senior project management level
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Construction Science, Finance or Business
- Must have at least 5 years of Project Controls experience
- Must have experience being assigned to projects with design fees exceeding $50MM
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects and tasks at the same time, adjusting to changing priorities in a fast paced environment
- Typically possess knowledge of change management discipline as it related to project management
Senior Project Specialist Job Description
- Actively collaborate with WW HR and WW Talent Development organizations in developing and rolling out finance specific people and talent development programs
- Good understanding of financial statements like P&L, Balance Sheet, Inventory holding
- Solid understanding of finance partnership with business and proactive plan in creating strategic skillsets for finance professionals to proactively support the business
- Project leader in creating a long term vision on career development, employee engagement and talent management for each individual finance function across the spectrum Treasury, Business Finance, FP&A, Controllership, Internal Audit
- Undertake ownership and delivery of results on special projects identified by the Safety leadership team
- Establish, lead and execute projects, provide day to day operational direction as necessary to ensure the teams deliver on their commitments
- Ensure aggressively realistic schedule are established with input and commitment from core-team members
- Work with a broad range of management levels ranging from individual contributors to Executive Leadership Team
- Lead regular project team meetings, tracking progress against plan, design robustness, and managing risks to minimize impact to the project plan
- Establish, deploy and execute project management best practices including risk management, project estimation, resource management and requirements management
- Experience in areas of data management, such as data modeling, integration, transformation, quality, warehousing, visualization
- Demonstrated experience in project risk assessments and applying risk assessment skills to support business development and project implementation for nuclear related projects, , @Risk, Crystal Ball, Pertmaster
- Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Information Systems
- Works effectively in an environment in which the parameters may change daily
- Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a masters or higher degree in Learning Sciences or Three years of experience working in communications and project management at a university setting
- Computer proficient (Costpoint, Cognos, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project)
Senior Project Specialist Job Description
- Driving continuous improvement across the organization
- Developing and managing projects and change initiatives to include planning, performing, and implementing process improvement initiatives, in addition to ownership of operational processes
- Creating and fostering business relationships vital to success of projects / business initiatives
- Providing and applying cost control techniques and analysis to Engineering Services projects
- Oversees SMS platform, which includes set up, account management, analytics, conversion improvement, opt-outs and compliance
- Manages development of, and implementation of client- and traveler-facing online marketing projects such as banners, landing pages, Web site promotions, third party emails, , tracking, as needed
- The Senior Digital MPS is also responsible for ongoing marketing projects assigned at the discretion of the department management
- The description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive, or to limit the discretionary authority of the management to assign other tasks with similar responsibility for which the individual has demonstrated competency through performance
- Facilitate supplier management meetings
- Progress schedule monitoring
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in leading a team of schedulers
- In depth understanding and application of the Critical Path Method (CPM) with and without software
- Expert user of Oracle Primavera P6 software including features beyond creating and maintaining schedules in P6 (such as administration and security of users and data, data dictionaries, global changes, various ways of importing and exporting schedule data, various ways of reporting data)
- Experience with producing CPM analyses for various levels of management at varying level of detail
- Experience with managing contractor schedules and integrating them into project master schedule
- Experience with developing new processes, documenting existing processes, and implementing processes including training team members
Senior Project Specialist Job Description
- Tracking claims and change orders
- Providing estimating capabilities
- Claims/ change order analysis and negotiation
- Invoice attestation and resolution
- Disputes resolution support
- Closeout support
- Create lessons learned documentation
- Compiles and analyzes historical data to identify improvement opportunities
- Defines and consults on measurement strategies, tools, scorecards and surveys, which may include benchmarking and industry comparative analysis
- Change Management – tracking potential, known and approved scope changes and assisting in the development of scope change documents
- Scheduling experience in transmission and distribution projects is preferred
- Competency with Acumen Fuse is a plus
- Detailed knowledge of industry best practices in project controls, including estimating, cost control and planning/scheduling, for Engineering services type projects
- Excellent networking skills and working with teams across different regions in a highly cross matrix organization
- Go-getter in planning and execution
- Strong understanding of financial statements and business acumen