Project Controls Engineer

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AECOM is currently seeing a Project Controls Engineer III to review and oversee highway, bridge, and construction schedules in the Albany area. This is an onsite position.

This person will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

Job Roles:

• Review and analyze Contractor’s Critical Path Method (CPM) Progress Schedules on various transportation construction contracts.  
• Provide recommendations to construction staff on the avoidance, minimization and mitigation of construction phase delays
• Review and analysis of Contractor’s requests for contract Time Extensions
• Conduct periodic construction project site visits to monitor project progress and assure progress schedule integrity, and participate in regular progress schedule meetings with construction team
• Provide construction management, scheduling and project set up services for all projects on enterprise P6 system.
• Develop or review Suggested Preliminary Construction Schedules during the final design stage based on the available plans, specifications and estimate provided by the project designer
• Conduct constructability reviews of the plans and specifications
• Assist in updating policies, procedures, specifications of guidance related to construction project management
• Administer enterprise databases for both Oracle Primavera P6 and Unifier are administered. 
• Administering Oracle Primavera Business Intelligence application for various updates and reporting. 
• Assist users of P6 enterprise system setting-up projects and assigning appropriate security to project folders. 
• Additional Job Information:
• Introduced to the company financial and cornerstone systems and processes 
• Introduced to financial terminology, measures, concepts and principles for analysis of financial data
• Exposed to processes that increase recognition of financial impact of various project actions
• Exposure to WBS concepts and principles
• Researches data for subsequent use in analyzing cost and schedule analysis
• Developing knowledge of accounting principles
• Developing ability to use drawings and specifications
• Exposed to progress/performance data and associated concepts and principles. Assists in the collection of progress data and review of performance trends
• Develops knowledge of earned value concepts, principles and methodology
• Collects data and produces an initial analysis on manpower, labor hour, and labor cost requirements versus budget limitations
• Collects data and produces an initial analysis for tracking actual cost to funding limitations
• Provides support for tracking purchase orders and subcontract commitments and expenditures
• Exposed to the concepts and principles of project revenue and cost
• Develops knowledge of scope control and change management
• Exposure to basic scheduling and cost baseline fundamentals, concepts and principles

Minimum Requirements

• BA/BS in Engineering, Architecture or Construction Management + 4 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Valid U.S. Driver's License

Preferred Requirements

• Oracle Primavera P6 experience, highway bridge construction experience, excellent communication skills.
• Prefer Masters degree
• 1 year related transportation construction experience and/or P6 experience 
• 1+ years construction inspection experience related to heavy highway and bridge construction projects and/or creating or reviewing construction schedules 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Experience with Oracle Primavera P6 software applications when used in an enterprise environment, and  experience troubleshooting and resolving P6 software related issues
• Technical Skills:  Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P6
• Experience cost loading and reviewing cost loaded construction schedules
• Experience with time impact analysis and various delay analysis methods
• Prefer AACE International certification as a Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) or Project Management Institute (PMI) as a Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) 

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

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Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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