What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Controls Manager position at Soben?
Why Soben?
We’re an award-winning construction consultancy with huge ambitions to put ourselves firmly on the map. We’ve come a long way since operations commenced in 2011 but now is the time to step on the gas and realize our true potential.
It is a hugely exciting time to join our business and we have some amazing times ahead of us. We’re targeting to have 1000 people globally by 2030 to support our expansion plans in current locations as well as additional territories.
If you want to play an integral part in achieving our ambitious plans for growth and delivering an exceptional consultancy service for our clients in the LATAM & NA region, whilst progressing your own career in a supportive and dynamic environment, we want to hear from you!
Role Description:
The Project Controls Manager will Provide project expertise with respect to Project Controls & CPM scheduling and use of Primavera including fundamental coaching for General Contractors & various stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and validate the accuracy and viability of the submitted baseline schedule as subsequent updates and produce schedule review comments.
- Effectively communicates with the Contractor regarding all schedule/progress & project controls related matters and concerns in the weekly status meetings and all other schedule related meetings
- Reviews Contractor’s Baseline schedule submissions and verifies that all work scope is identified properly and logically sequenced correctly; provides written detailed schedule review comments
- Coordinate with amazon stakeholders (Commissioning, Controls etc.) to ensure their scope, timeline and durations are accurate.
- Validate the accuracy and assure the credibility of information contained in the schedule analysis performed by the Contractor.
- Recommend ways to improve schedule performance through analysis, work-around, lessons learned, corrective actions and acceleration plans.
- Analyze schedule impacts due to changes or claims, including time-impact analysis.
- Performs status updates for Program Schedules/Master Schedules on a weekly basis
- Assist the Project Team in evaluating and monitoring the Contractors progress schedule as well as consulting and troubleshooting issues throughout the construction of the project.
- Responsible for leading and training project managers and project controls specialists with reports for their assigned projects.
- Review Schedule driven Change Orders and Time Impact/ Claims submitted from vendors
- Walks the construction sites as needed and checks the contractor’s weekly/monthly schedule progress; provides reports to the project OAR and upper management.
- Performs schedule Time Impact Analysis for any change orders that affect the construction schedule; conducts schedule negotiations with the OAR and the contractor for any delay time settlements.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Minimum 8 years full time professional experience in Project Controls or Construction Scheduling for an Owner or General Contractor, preferably in a Mission Critical environment.
- Mid to advanced proficiency in Primavera software
- PSP, PMI-SP or PMP certification preferred
- Bilingual (Spanish / Portuguese) preferred
