Cost Control/P6 Scheduler

Application Instructions: Must fill out application and submit resume

A Cost Control Specialist with Primavera P6 expertise is responsible for managing project costs, developing and maintaining project budgets, and ensuring adherence to financial plans throughout the project lifecycle. They work closely with project managers and other stakeholders to track project performance, analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions.

Key Responsibilities:

Cost Management: Developing and maintaining detailed project budgets, tracking actual costs, and analyzing variances to stay on budget.

Primavera P6: Utilizing Primavera P6 to manage schedules, track progress, and analyze cost implications of schedule changes.

Change Management: Managing change orders, ensuring accurate cost impacts are reflected in the budget and schedule.

Cost Reporting: Preparing and delivering cost reports, including forecasts, variances, and earned value analysis.

Collaboration: Working closely with project managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to align cost and schedule data.

Financial Analysis: Performing financial analysis, including cost-benefit analysis, to support project decisions.

Procurement: Participating in the procurement process, ensuring accurate cost data for purchase requisitions and contracts.

Risk Management: Identifying and assessing project risks with potential cost implications, and recommending mitigation strategies.

Continuous Improvement: Identifying areas for process improvement in cost control and project management.

The above duties are not meant to restrict initiative, but rather to define minimum activities. These duties may be altered to suit the needs of the company.

Skills and Qualifications:

Cost Control Expertise: Deep understanding of project cost control principles, practices, and procedures.

Primavera P6 Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 for scheduling, progress tracking, and cost analysis.

Financial Analysis Skills: Excellent financial analysis skills, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Project Management Skills: Familiarity with project management methodologies and processes.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders.

Software Proficiency: Proficiency in relevant software, such as SAP, Excel, and other project management tools.

Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to identify and resolve cost-related issues.

Position Requirements: Education and Experience:

Typically requires a bachelor's degree in a related field and relevant experience in cost control, project management, or financial analysis.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands: ability to lift 20 pounds on a regular basis. Ability to sit for extended periods of time and use a combination of both hands/arms to perform daily task.

Employee will be working in a shop office and will on a regular basis be required to walk through the shop and outside as duties require.

Other Skills and Abilities:

Active Listening – Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Reading Comprehension –Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Speaking – Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Service Orientation – Actively looking for ways to help people.

Writing – Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Coordination – Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.

Time Management – Managing one’s own time and the time of others.

Social Perceptiveness – Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as the do.

Monitoring – Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Active Learning – Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem solving and decision-making.

Written Comprehension – The ability to read and understand information and ideas in writing.

Oral Comprehension – The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Near Vision – The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

Speech Clarity – The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Information Ordering – The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Deductive Reasoning – The ability to apply general rules to problems to produce answers that make sense.

Problem Sensitivity – The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Unless you are given a written contract signed by the President of The Roberts Company specifying an employment term, your employment is considered “at-will”. This means that both the Company and the employee have the right to terminate employment at any time with or without cause. Nothing in this handbook, nor any oral or written representation by an employee, official, Manager, or Supervisor of this Company shall be construed as a contract of employment, unless the President signs the written contract of employment.

To give equal employment and advancement opportunities to all people, we make employment decisions at the Roberts Company based on each person’s performance, qualification, and abilities, the Roberts Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by the law.

We will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless making the reasonable accommodation would result in an overdue hardship to The Roberts Company.