Project Controls Engineer
Blue Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Greater Houston • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Support the planning, cost control, progress control, change management / scope development, cash flow and support for the scheduling functions for gas turbine and combined cycle power plant projects.
- Develop and maintain cost control systems and produce regular cost reports.
- Monitor trends and provide early warnings on potential budget overruns.
- Develop budgets and schedules with associated time, cost, and manpower elements.
- Prepare weekly and monthly project reports covering schedule, cost, and performance metrics and clearly identify variance.
- Integrate the schedule and activities with the cost and progress base.
- Assist Project Manager and Construction Manager as needed.
- Coordinate with procurement group to obtain and track supplier and contractor invoicing and payment information as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree financial, engineering, construction management, or other related field with OTJ experience; OR
- 10+ years of qualified experience in the field.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in project planning and control, financial budgeting, cost, and/or project estimating experience.
- Strong financial, scheduling, and process background.
- Proficiency in EcoSys (or similar cost control and forecasting software), MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, Bluebeam or Adobe Pro.
- Ability to prepare documents using word processing (MS Word), presentation (MS PowerPoint) and spreadsheet (MS Excel) application software.
- Willingness to travel and/or work from Project Construction site or to other Company offices and supplier sites, as required, to coordinate project control information.
- Knowledge of computer-based cost, planning, and scheduling systems.
Benefits
- Blue Energy’s mission is to unlock energy abundance, energy affordability, energy security, and turn-key decarbonization by developing the fastest path to deploying new nuclear MWs at scale.
- We are utilizing shipyard manufacturing supply chains and techniques from offshore oil and wind to reduce the cost of nuclear plants by over 60% and the manufacturing timeline to 24 months.
- Innovative centralized shipyard manufacturing approach.
- Energy services experience is desirable.
- Oracle Financials experience is preferred.
- Oracle Primavera P6 experience is preferred.
- 5–10 years of project controls experience on power generation or large industrial projects.
- Will need to work with Contractors, Suppliers, and Subcontractors to integrate their progress and other reporting metrics into the overall project plan, status, and reporting.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cost controlbudgetingproject planningfinancial forecastingproject estimatingschedulingprogress controlchange managementcash flow managementvariance analysis
Soft Skills
strong financial backgroundorganizational skillscommunication skillsability to coordinateattention to detailproblem-solving skillsteam collaborationadaptabilitytime managementwillingness to travel