Senior Project Coordinator

Manifest Solutions is currently seeking a Senior Project Controls Analyst for a remote position in Texas. Must currently reside in Texas.

• Gather documentation and summarize stakeholder needs and requirements.
• Create summarized report detailing overall program health and include each project within.
• Forecasted delivery schedules.
• Schedule and coordinate meetings.
• Update project trackers and present on progress.
• Relay communication between internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate work activities of others within work group, team or those external to the company, including contractors and vendors as required to resolve routine technical tasks and field work activities.
• Prepare forecasts for complex projects including cash flows, budget variance monitoring, cost tracking/analysis.
• Demonstrate ability to work beyond routine assignments.
• Works independently in resolving complex problems for internal and external customers.
• Depending on the needs of the department, this work could focus on outage planning, risk management, operation and maintenance of equipment, new customer requests, new construction, and/or determining work prerequisites and specifications.
• Initiates, leads and facilitates meetings effectively. Provides input to routine project planning, risk management, and schedule.
• Make decisions and effectively manage conflict. Build consensus for agreement concerning business and/or work issues.
• Create contract requisitions, create work authorizations, create processing change orders, and track Contractor costs.
• Participate in the planning and organization of project work activities.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that work prerequisites and deadlines are met.
• Negotiate with vested parties to adjust schedule, cost, and general project coordination due to workload, weather, and other scheduling conflicts.
• Document project's risk analysis and generate project risk assessment report.
• Work with others in both supplying information and seeking assistance as necessary.
• Communicate with stakeholders to update plans, checklists, schedules, statuses, and budgets.
  

Basic Qualifications:

• With a qualified bachelor’s degree, four (4) years' qualified experience required; with a qualified associate’s degree, six (6) years' qualified experience
• Qualified degrees must be in a related field from an accredited university or college and could include Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, or Project Management.
• Qualified experience includes utility specific operations knowledge/experience with good working knowledge of work processes and procedures.
• Experience should be in design, operations, planning, project management, cost tracking analysis, forecasting, and project budgets, working with accounting principles, and/or construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment.
• Demonstrate ability to manage time effectively and efficiently.
• Show capability of having organizational and planning skills, as well as having an aptitude for accuracy, attention to detail and ability to achieve goals
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Listen and identify customer needs/wants.
• Effectively communicate with team, management, customers, contractors, vendors and regulatory agencies.
• Team player with ability to work and collaborate well with others.
• Ability to interface and work well with different levels of individual contributors and management is required.
• Must be proficient in the operation of computer systems in a Windows environment and could learn new and complex systems.
• Immediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel and ability to develop complex spreadsheets
• Ability to coordinate multiple projects of variable complexity.