Senior Project Planner

Overview

Manage project cost, schedule, and financial analysis to ensure project performance.

Key Responsibilities

• cost forecast
• earned value
• budget tracking
• cost trending
• variance analysis
• project reporting

Tasks

-Participates in tracking action items. -Creates and assists with cost/schedule baseline budgets. -Participates in and may lead project cost review meetings. -May assist in leading junior staff through assignment tasks. -Reviews purchase order and subcontract commitments and expenditures. Maintains tracking database to insure that subcontractor funding is aligned with work authorization and expenditures. -Conducts or assists in performance measurement and associated cost trending. -Evaluates manpower, labor hour, and labor cost requirements versus budget limitations including preparation of variance analysis. -Assists in procedure development and implementation. -Prepares revised cost forecast for select accounts. -Works hands on with earned value monitoring. -Compares actual cost to funding limitations. Prepares expenditure forecasts to identify critical points in project funding. -Prepares and assists in various levels of project reporting. -Prepares analysis of progress trends and cost impact. May participate in reviewing and approving contractor invoices. -Participates in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues.

Requirements

• engineering
• proactive
• change management
• budgeting
• accounting
• cost integration

What You Bring

-Familiar with basic cost/schedule integration and basic critical path analysis and other rescheduling concepts. -Understands the manner in which profits on projects are budgeted and the extent to which the budget value is achieved. -Able to use drawings and specifications in the establishment of project baseline data. -Pro active mindset -Comfortable being a right hand person to a Project Manager -Understands financial terminology and measures and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions. -Knowledgeable of accounting principles with extensive understanding of the manner in which the company establishes and documents the financial position. -Skilled in the use of company cornerstone systems and able to represent cost data formats necessary to control the project. -Possesses the knowledge of scope control and change management. Involved in the tracking system to insure that project management is fully aware of detailed change order status. -Engineering background -Confident in leading meetings

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About Aecom

-Launched as a bold independent infrastructure consultancy from a merger of five legacy firms dating back over a century. -Handles everything from geotech to electro-mechanical systems, as seen in the award-winning Romaine Hydroelectric Complex in Canada. -Guides projects through every lifecycle stage in transportation, buildings, water systems, energy, and environmental sectors.

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