Project Controls Specialist - Kincardine, Canada - United E&C

United E&C

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Kincardine, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

The Shoreline Power Group is a Joint Venture of Aecon, United and SNC-Lavalin. Shoreline Power Group will be completing the Fuel Channel and Feeder Replacement (FCFR) project.

The joint venture has been awarded a contract by Bruce Power to execute the Unit 6 and Unit 3 FCFR at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Kincardine, Ontario.

This project is part of Bruce Power's Life Extension Program, which will allow Bruce Power's CANDU units to continue to operate safely through to 2064, the project is the centerpiece of the Major Component Replacement (MCR) program to replace the main components of the reactor.

Unit 6 is the first of six reactors being replaced by Bruce Power through the MCR program.

The scope of work includes the removal and replacement of calandria tubes, pressure tubes, and feeders for Unit 6 and 3, as well as construction management and trade labour.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

Reporting to the Project Controls Manager, the Project Control Specialist will be responsible in providing project control support to ongoing projects and supporting the company's estimating and construction teams to ensure that the company's project control system is properly implemented and utilized.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Overall responsibility for compliance of assigned projects with project controls standards both from applicable contract documents and from Aecon project controls policies/guidelines.
Participate in developing, establishing and maintaining the company's project cost /control systems.
Participate in proposal and estimating efforts to ensure continuity between project estimates and project baseline
Assist the project team in converting project bids to setting up the complete, accurate project baseline (budget), in the company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (SAP, Prism).
Set up project accounting systems (cost codes, job cost processing procedures, project rules of credit) in SAP
Review the project contract and ensure that all the contract conditions (invoicing, reporting, change management, etc.) are applied and fulfilled, project tracking and reporting, and project closeout
Monitor the project performance and ensure that all the project control system is properly implemented.
Generate all required project status reports for internal management and for the customer, including the overall project Dashboard, project performance report (Earned Value, SPI, CPI, etc),
Train the project team on how to implement the change management procedures.
Responsible to maintain a change management system in compliance with contract conditions and Aecon's procedures; monitor and enforce the change management system for assigned projects
Responsible to communicate, train and generally ensure full understanding by project staff of project controls processes and their applicable responsibilities
Review and analyze the project control reports (i.e. progress and productivity) with the project control leads and project team and suggest corrective actions to maintain reasonable (around 1PF) performance/productivity.
Review and analyze the project scheduling and cost reports and suggest corrective actions to maintain the project within anticipated cost and schedule.
Prepare and update project cash flows.
AS required, produce custom reports per request of customer or internal management
Provide input on an ongoing basis for improvements/modifications to Shoreline's project controls policy & guidelines
Assists with contract management and payments
Other duties as assigned

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

13 years of related experience is preferred.
College and/or University degree in related field, OR applicable work experience
Applied knowledge of the "Earned Value" principles.
Applied knowledge of Project Management and Project Controls principles, including experience with concepts of PMBOK and AACE
Ability to produce read and manipulate schedules and scheduling curves/reports.
Applied knowledge of cost engineering/cost control.
Intermediate to expert proficiency with Microsoft Excel
Organizational skills in order to handle multiple tasks within a highpressure work site environment.
Interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral).
Ability to work effectively with all levels of management and employees.
Willingness for continuous learning and advancement of technical knowledge.
Detail oriented and customer focused.

FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY