Project Controls Coordinator

Join the Strategy Engineering Team! Strategy Engineering is a leading provider of comprehensive engineering services to the offshore energy industry. With expertise in conceptual design, front-end engineering, and brownfield modifications, we deliver practical, innovative, and cost-effective solutions to our clients. Our multidisciplinary team specializes in mechanical, structural, civil, electrical, instrumentation, pipeline, and process disciplines.

We offer a competitive salary, benefits package, and opportunities for professional growth and development.

Strategy Engineering and Consulting is a leading solution supplier in the engineering and design of Oil, Gas, and Renewable Energy industries. We supply professional personnel and outsource services for projects and operations in all regions across the world. We take pride in partnering with our clients and consultants in relationships that are based on trust, high ethical standards, and consistent service quality. This is what we believe in, because in the end it is all about people.[GM1]  Our team is currently looking to fill a role for our client in Houston, TX for a Senior Project Controls Coordinator. 

Responsibilities:

• Assist project managers in developing, maintaining, and monitoring project milestones and detailed schedules to ensure target dates and overall project goals are achieved.
• Maintain an active project Backlog to determine staffing requirements and scheduling conflicts.
• Monitor actual job costs on a continual basis for project reporting, forecasting and cost analysis.
• Gather progress status updates at an interdisciplinary level, for reporting on individual projects as required for internal and external customer needs. 
• Be abel to support an analysis of schedules; identify and investigate project schedule variances. 
• Collect and update data; update and produce scheduling reports.
• May participate in planning and scheduling meetings to gain insight to planning and scheduling issues.
• Gather data for schedule baseline development and maintenance.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of WBS and support activities to implement applicable coding.
• Support monthly report preparation and invoicing activities.
• Prepare detailed and summary level Cost Performance Reports.
• Work within the Company’s Financial and Procedural processes, and assist in revising and updating these to a “Current Best Approach”.
• Assemble data; taken from project resources and the ERP for trending and forecasting.
• Collect and analyze data for tracking actual costs to funding limitations.
• Maintain Earned Value Management System (EVMS) description.
• Maintain and support EVMS processes for multiple projects.
• Support periodic internal and external EVMS audits.
• Provide Project Controls support to Cost Account Managers in the form of reports, graphs, and charts as needed.
• Assume lead role in monthly production of revised project cost forecasting.
• Evaluate manpower, labor hour, and labor cost.
• Review performance trends; prepare analysis, cost impact, and monthly project performance reports.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or related field OR demonstrated equivalent and related experience. 
• 5+ years of Project Controls experience in the oil and gas industry. 
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Project, Excel, and a range of ERP systems (Ajera preferred).
• Must have a solid understanding of the basic principles of project management.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with both cost management AND Scheduling preferred.