Project Controls Manager - Federal

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AECOM is seeking a disciplined and experienced Project Controls Manager for a Federal Client in the DC Metro Area. in our Arlington, VA. The Project Controls Manager will support our Project and Program Management (PPM) Business Line. This is a future project and will depend on project win.

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

• Lead the project controls function on a large and complex project
• Manages controls, forecasting, and reporting of cost and schedule performance for projects throughout a client's portfolio
• Lead cost and schedule positions in a formal meeting, presentation, or negotiation
• Participate in in client and/or subcontractor negotiations
• Tracking system to ensure that Project Management team is fully aware of detailed change order status
• Review construction cost estimates
• Oversee the production and maintenance of accurate project schedules
• Develop construction schedule including the creation of work breakdown structure
• Schedule, critical path analysis, resource loading and leveling
• Review schedule delays and conducts independent Time Impact Analysis (TIA) including both modeled and observational approaches
• Lead risk assessments including conducting risk interviews, developing risk registers, and calculating quantitative cost and schedule risk
• Lead standard operating procedures, process workflows, and program execution plans development
• Conduct root cause analysis
•  Establish and maintain client relationships
•  Participate in staffing decisions for projects 

Minimum Requirements

• BA/BS + 4 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred Requirements

• CCM, PMP, PE, RA, CQM
• 5+ years of experience in Federal
• Must have experience with Construction means, methods, and sequences understanding

• Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Relocation is not available for this position.

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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.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

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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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