Lead Project Controls Specialist

Elevate your career with one of North America's leading underground mining contractors. DMC Mining Services has set the standard in the mining industry, providing top-notch services from shaft sinking and raise boring to complete mine development and operation. We're looking for dedicated professionals to join our team and contribute to our legacy of excellence, safety, and innovation. If you're passionate about making a difference and eager to work on challenging, impactful projects, we want to hear from you!

Our core values: Zero Harm, Teamwork, Results Driven, Courage and Accountability.

Position Summary:

DMC is looking for a Lead Project Controls Specialist in Arizona-USA. The Lead Project Controls Specialist monitors, controls and reports the progress of the project ensuring the effectiveness and appropriate integration of cost control, scheduling, progressing, change management and estimating on the project. This position will interface with all departments across the engineering, procurement, and construction of the project.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for cost management; development and implementation of cost control systems for engineering, procurement and construction activities, cost reporting, cost variance analysis, trending, forecasting and cash flows.

- Ensure that the project schedule is updated and current and communicated to the Project Team.

- Ensure forecasts are prepared and integrated according to project and DMC requirements.

- Ensure effective cost control, assessment and analysis is performed and reported.

- Ensure that suitable procedures and systems for project planning and scheduling are followed.

- Ensure accuracy in the reporting of progress and productivity and earned value.

- Responsible for creating internal status reports (cost, manpower etc.) and external weekly and monthly reports to the Client.

- Assessment of Subcontractor cost submissions for management approval.

- Ensure that all invoicing is appropriately reviewed, recorded and stored.

- Monitor and action past due invoices and payments.

- Generate project accruals for submission to the Client.

- Ensure the accurate, complete, and auditable invoices (progress certificates) are generated and submitted to the client.

- Ensure that all cost data is appropriately managed, accessible and auditable.

- Control, analyze and processes change to scope, cost and schedule on the project.

- Promote the communication of change occurring at site and head office engineering and schedules change meetings appropriately.

- Responsible for communicating potential corrective actions with the DMC Project Team.

- Interact with engineering, procurement, and construction personnel to understand and communicate issues and conflicts that impact the schedule and/or cost.

- Other related duties as may be assigned.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of project controls experience including planning, scheduling, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and estimating.

- Must have experience supporting construction and mining projects.

- Project scheduling experience.

- Experience in Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) projects would be an asset.

- MS Word / Excel and P6 software proficiency required.

- Experience doing cost loaded schedules and earned value progress.

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, accounting or finance or related discipline.

- Strong attention to detail.

- No External Recruiters Please

- The description is for the purpose of information only, and reflects the general duties considered to describe the principal functions of the job and shall not be construed as a detailed job description of all work requirements that may be inherent in the job. It is understood that the terms or conditions of the job are subject to change as may be deemed necessary by the Company to maintain a safe and efficient operation.

As part of our commitment to ensuring our employment practices are fair, accessible, and inclusive of persons with disabilities, please note that accommodations are available, upon request, throughout the recruitment and assessment process for any applicants with disabilities.

DMC Mining is an equal opportunity employer. We thank all candidates for applying, however only the candidates selected will be contacted.