Lead Project Management Specialist- Project Controls
GE Vernova · Posted Oct 14
Power generation, wind turbine, grid solution, and electrification services
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About the role
The role sits within GE Vernova's Project Controls function, which ensures rigor around schedule and cost management processes so that customer projects are delivered on-time and within budget, with exposure to diverse projects supporting the energy transition. The function focuses on tools, processes, operating rhythm and people across cost and schedule management for large turnkey projects. This Lead Project Management Specialist builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates, maintains project schedules and cost forecasts, performs cost and schedule trend analysis and risk registers, and reports project status to internal and external stakeholders while supporting the NAM region.
What you will do
- Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates
- Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools
- Ensures compliance to the Global Standard process for Project Controls
- Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
- Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project
- Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team
- Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks
- Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
- Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
- Communicates schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
- Provides internal and external project reporting of project status
- Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules
- Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status
- Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate
- Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation
- Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books
- Support project close out and claims
- Provide support to tenders
- Oversee the planning function on the project
- Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.
- Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
- Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost
- Ensure alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)
- Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.
- Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function
- Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner
- Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements
- Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions
- Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions
- Ensure safety work instructions are complied
- Participate in the resolution of safety issues. Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed
- Schedule quality
- Cost forecasting quality
- Schedule forecast quality
- Cost and schedule performance of project
- Timeliness of reporting
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's Engineering degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 6 years of experience in Job Family Group(s)/Function(s))
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Deep domain knowledge of planning and use of Primavera
- Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects
- Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects
- Need to support NAM region and open to work and overlap respective time zone at least 6 hours.
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ years planning large turnkey projects
- 2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects
- Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
- Established project management skills.
- Open for travel upto 10% onsite
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About GE Vernova
GE Vernova Inc. is a global energy company that provides equipment, services, and software to generate, transfer, orchestrate, convert, and store electricity. Operating through its Power, Wind, and Electrification segments, the company supports a broad customer base across more than 100 countries in powering economies and driving the energy transition. Formed as part of the strategic spin-off of General Electric's energy portfolio, GE Vernova is dedicated to electrifying and decarbonizing the world.
- Industry
- Energy
- Company size
- 75000+ employees
- Founded
- 2024
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer and President
Stephen F. Angel
Chairman of the Board
Lola Lin
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Roger Martella
Chief Corporate Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer & Head of Global Government Affairs
Eric Gray
CEO, Power Segment
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