Job Details
Amentum
Project Control Specialist
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Project Control Specialist
Amentum is seeking a Project Control Specialist on West Palm Beach, Florida to work as part of a close-knit team, as well as independently, to accomplish a range of functions as you support Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC). The selected candidate will create and maintain time-phased project budgets using MS Excel, Power BI Cognos and Costpoint. Provide budget and schedule coordination with project management, finance engineering, procurement, subcontractors, and external clients. As a member of the team, you will:
Essential Responsibilities:
- Work with Project (Technical Instruction) owners to generate time-phased budgets, track expenditures against funding, predict dates when funding will be 75% and 100% spent and update forecasts and tracking when incremental funding values are updated.
- Report on project engineering performance using earned value analysis.
- Establish project budgets from proposal estimate, track committed costs, and forecast remaining costs for labor, material and other direct costs for Amentum and subcontractors.
- Prepare and submit monthly reports for internal and external clients.
- Advises team on matters affecting project success, schedule and cost impacts, and develops project recovery plans.
- Part of the project management team assisting in meeting project budgets and deadlines.
- Identify out of scope work items and create change order requests to be presented to client, including estimated cost and schedule impacts.
- Review and recommend action on change order claims from subcontractors.
- Within area of responsibility, consistently identifies potential project problems or opportunities in a proactive manner, analyzes the issues using all appropriate resources, develops alternatives and arrives at the most optimum approach to mitigate problems or exploit opportunities.
- Interface with internal project teams and external clients.
- May support earned value management projects if required.
- Perform all other position related duties as assigned or requested.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM or business field and 3+ years' experience. Experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
- Requires attention to detail. Must be able to work effectively with internal and external clients.
- Able to travel as needed for project meetings, site investigations, and vendor or subcontractor meetings.
- Extensive working knowledge of excel required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- Must have a valid driver's license and passport.
Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.