Project Control Specialist (Contract)

Who We Are - Thermon

Thermon is a diversified technology company and a global leader in industrial process heating, temperature maintenance, environmental monitoring and temporary power distribution solutions. We deliver engineered solutions that enhance operational awareness, safety, reliability and efficiency to deliver the lowest total cost of ownership.

Thermon offers over 250 products, software and services across multiple brands, providing a range of offerings from boilers, transportation heaters, and liquid load banks to tubing bundles and heat trace. We are the silent guardians of critical infrastructure. From the relentless demands of chemical plants and the intricate networks of rail and transit to the vital pulse of power generation, we innovate solutions that ensure optimal operation, protect critical assets, and maximize efficiency.

We care deeply about the success of our customers, the well-being of our people, and the reliability of every product we design. This drives our unwavering commitment to safety and integrity in everything we do. Through collaboration, we unite a rich legacy of expertise with a trusted global team, partnering side-by-side with our customers. We transfer the warmth needed to make life work.

The Role

The Project Control Specialist will be responsible for maintaining cost, productivity, manpower, quality and earned value progress data. This will include managing and updating data mapping requirements between multiple sources (P6, Ms. Project) to produce daily, weekly and monthly project progress reports for the project execution team. The project reporting requirements will be done in conjunction with other stakeholders within the project teams, including Project Managers, Lead Designers and Administrators.

What You Will Do

- Maintain external and internal cost reports, cash flows and forecasts.

- Develop and maintain the project master schedule using appropriate techniques and scheduling software with input from other project management personnel.

- Track detailed breakdown of purchase orders or subcontracts and ensure budget tracking against purchase orders or subcontracts.

- Maintain cost reports in a standardized report format as defined by the project requirements (maintain planned versus actual tracking sheets for various line items within project budgets and schedules).

- Maintain accurate project forecast at completion and estimate to complete; Report monthly project status while controlling to approved project and program baseline(s); analysis, variance explanations and trend reporting.

- Identify trends and change to the designs and material shipment progress against the contract schedules and productivity requirements, and report analysis to project team maintaining all information on the change order register.

- Implement project controls plan for accurate project controls reporting and timely billing of all reimbursable costs.

- Contribute to the development of various financial, productivity and scheduling analyses and forecasts as required to assist the project team.

- Assist with administrative coordination of all equipment documentation related to projects, proposals, development, and process improvements.

- Process change orders and trend alerts in accordance with established procedures.

- Work with Project Manager to ensure the project successfully exceeds the project's cost targets.

- Oversee billing administration to include daily processing, corrections, reconciling, data entry, filing and communicating discrepancies internally and to the customer as needed.

- Support the compilation of accurate, comprehensive and timely cost reports, and the development of change management process.

- Develop Excel spreadsheets and analyze raw data, interpret and communicate results/corrective measures to the project team.

- Manage the financial health of the project, including variance reporting for both schedule and cost.

- Work with PM and other department to compile monthly invoices and follow up for approval and payment.

KnowledgeQualifications

- 2-6 years experience in manufacturing industry

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical engineering or Engineering Technology is preferred.

- Proficiency in Primavera or MS Project is required.

- Experience in working with Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook Excel

Requirements and skills

- Ability to work under fast pace, stressful environment

- Demonstrate organizational abilities and attention to detail

- Ability to develop tools required to track the progress of projects

- Strong ability to organize and prioritize workload

- Excellent ability to think critically and problem solve

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team

- Customer focused. Able to understand the customer's application and provide solutions and that meet the customer's requirements

- Excellent communication skills verbal and written

- Ability to identify potential problems and resolve diplomatically