Project Controls Specialist

K&A Power Group – is a privately held engineering firm delivering worldclass technical expertise and engineering excellence to power utility and industrial clients across the United States, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. We provide comprehensive consulting, engineering and design, program and project management, construction management, and EPC services, specializing in substation, transmission, distribution, and distributed energy resources.

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We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Project Controls Specialist to join our team at K&A Power Group in Springfield, Massachusetts. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting and challenging projects that make a real impact in the energy and utility sectors. You’ll be part of a dynamic, people-focused team where your expertise, ideas, and contributions will be valued and celebrated.

Role Expectations:

• Development and maintenance of project schedule and budget and development of related reports.
• Generate Periodic Project Controls Reports. Generate daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly project controls reports. Responsible for gathering, verifying, validating, and analyzing data in support of project controls reporting. Responsible for distributing and archiving project controls reports as appropriate.
• Perform Change Control. Track and manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and cost baseline. Identify, assess, gain approval for, and distribute change requests, change notices and/or change orders in a manner compliant with internal governance standards and terms and conditions of relevant contracts (as appropriate).
• Project Controls Benchmarking and Self-Assessment Initiatives. Assist in scheduling and carrying out benchmarking and self-assessment initiatives relevant to project controls and the types of projects typically managed by the project controls group. Identify and communicate improvement opportunities, adoption of best practices and counter measures to address gaps in performance.
• Expertise in Project Controls Methodologies. Develops and maintains WBS, project schedules, and cost estimates; tracks and trends cash flow reports, change control documentation (scope, cost or schedule) and/or any reports associated with project controls. Tracks and reports project status, performs variance, and earned value and critical path analyses at a level appropriate for the project.
• Create and Maintain Project Estimate. Work with Estimator(s) to create or create project cost estimate in order to establish effective cost controls management. Assure that project estimate includes all necessary raw materials, resource / labor rates, manufactured materials / equipment as well as current industry data relative to project scope.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Finance, Business or equivalent
• Five (5) + years of experience in Project Controls environment
• Proficiency in the navigation and use of a scheduling tool (Oracle Primavera P6 is preferred)
• Highly engaged self-starter, identifying problems and offering possible solutions and taking appropriate action for resolution.
• Experience using software such as Business Objects, MS Office Suite, Visio, Power Plan and Maximo, Microsoft Project
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Working knowledge/proficiency with project management, project controls concepts, computer applications such as scheduling software, financial tools, and spreadsheets
• Program or project Risk Program Control experience
• Demonstrated experience with schedule integration of multiple projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of analyzing, integrating, trending, and forecasting schedule information for projects
• Demonstrated knowledge and usage of earned value techniques.
• Database and Reporting experience
• Must be able to work a hybrid scheduled (Tuesday-Thursday)

Pay Range $115,000—$125,000/year