Project Controls, Associate

Overview

About M.C. Dean M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation's most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration. Why Join Us? Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values-agility, expertise, and trust-we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

Project Controls, Associate designates work to be done and specifies deadlines for completing tasks and deliverables. Full use and application of standard theories, concepts and techniques in a specialized field. Responsible for aiding, tracking, monitoring status, controlling and issue resolution throughout the projects life cycle. Provides solutions to a variety of problems.

Responsibilities

• Providing project planning and scheduling documentation to support project and customer requirements.
• Providing planning and scheduling support for in-house or on-site work as required.
• Assisting Team Leads, Superintendents and the Project and Program Managers in tracking the projects against baseline schedules and budgets.
• Preparing periodic management and / or customer reports and presentations as required.
• Assisting on project proposal teams.
• Prior to project start, creating and revising preliminary master schedules, detailing the sequence of all work to be performed.
• Assisting Project Manager in maintaining Master schedule for each project, identifying and recording the impact of work performed and not performed as scheduled.
• Evaluating actual progress and providing regular schedule updates.
• Interfacing with Operations to discuss impact of work and resolution of problems.
• Contributing to the development of working schedules for Estimating, prior to proposal date, which sufficiently illustrate the sequence of work activities and contract time.
• Assist in preparing and issuing proposal and preliminary schedule.
• Incorporating Resource and / or Cost Loading data into schedules as required.
• Consulting appropriate project team members and estimating procedures as a means of ensuring that proper planning is completed prior to the commencement of work.
• Assisting Project Managers in creating short-term schedules, monitoring such schedules to determine impact on master schedule, and helping in formulating actions to correct scheduling problems.
• Providing information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project schedule.
• Remaining current on the advancements in scheduling software.
• Continuously expanding and updating professional knowledge and honing training skills in order to enhance individual and team innovation and productivity.
• Aiding Project Managers and others as required with incorporation of fragments in Project Schedule.
• Schedules and tracks equipment maintenance using CMMS software

Qualifications

Preferred but not required :

Abilities :