Associate Controls Specialist / Controls Specialist / Sr. Controls Specialist

Job Summary

Dominion Energy is seeking a highly motivated Project Controls Specialist at the North Anna Power Station to support estimating and cost control activities for the nuclear projects organization. This role develops and maintains cost plans, monitors performance, analyzes variances, and provides reliable, data driven reporting to ensure projects are executed safely, efficiently, on schedule, and within budget.  The position will be filled at the level commensurate with the successful candidate’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities: 

Associate Controls Specialist
•    Develop, implement and coordinate planning, estimating, and cost controls for power station construction projects.
•    Develop and maintain cost plan for power station construction projects based on approved estimates and schedules.
•    Monitor actual project cost and/or work status data to ensure project is proceeding on schedule and within budget.
•    Prepare and analyze monthly budget variance reports for management. Implement, evaluate and monitor controls systems.
•    Coordinate use of controls equipment and facilities.
•    Conduct meetings with contractors and company personnel on cost control matters.

Controls Specialist
•    Prepare cost estimates and develop detailed power station construction project schedules.
•    Implement, evaluate, and monitor controls systems.
•    Coordinate use of controls equipment and facilities. 
•    Interface with other departments to coordinate and integrate support requirements on construction schedules.
•    Evaluate project field and scope changes for impact on cost and/or schedule and update project budgets.

Sr Controls Specialist 
•     Develop and review project estimates and schedules.
•    Monitor actual project cost and/or work status data to ensure projects proceed on schedule and within budget and provide status reports to management.
•    Develop and review OandM and capital budgets and analyze monthly cost reports.
•    Assist in training lower-level controls personnel. Implement, evaluate and monitor controls systems.
•    Coordinate use of controls equipment, facilities and maintenance activities.
•    Conduct meetings with contractors and company personnel on cost control matters.
•    Act as lead controls discipline representative to major projects.
•    Interface and coordinate with other corporate and station groups. 
•    Establish and implement cost and planning control policy and procedures for power station construction project.
•    Attend work control and outage meetings and coordinate completion of work as scheduled through work control process. 
•    Responsible for understanding crew sizes and coordinating the work to be overseen by the Department Superintendents by effectively using resources such as staffing,  equipment and supplies to ensure optimum availability, productivity, and safe operating performance.
•    Responsible for evaluating risk for plant work and developing risk plans for the department’s work plans.
•    Coordinate and manage emergent work into the on-line schedule.
•    Support the development and implementation of outage schedules as requested by Outage and Planning to ensure on-line schedule integration.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences that are required for entry into this job include the following:

Associate Controls Specialist: 0-2 years of relevant exempt experience in directly related field, 
Controls Specialist: -2-3+ years of relevant experience in directly related field, 
Sr Controls Specialist: 5-6+ years of relevant exempt experience in directly related field

-Knowledge of cost controls principles
-Good verbal/writing/presentation skills
-Effective work and project management skills
-Effective decision making and problem solving
-Effective math and computer skills
-Effective analytical skills
-Works effectively with employees at all levels and external personnel
-Consistently applies good business judgment
-Applies analytical abilities to diverse issues
-Manages multiple priorities and meet deadlines
-Ability to verify data and present statistical reports and documentation

Education Requirements

Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education:

Bachelor

Preferred Disciplines:  Construction Management, Engineering

Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above

 Other:  Technical

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