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AECOM Project Controls Team Lead in Bucharest, Romania
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Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Project Controls Team Lead to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of project control processes, financial systems, and project management principles. This role requires exceptional leadership skills to guide a team in delivering accurate and timely project cost and schedule performance data.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Systems & Processes: Leverage company financial systems and processes to ensure project controls are executed effectively.
Cost Data Management: Develop proficiency in the use of company cornerstone systems, providing cost data in necessary formats to control projects efficiently.
Financial Analysis: Understand and utilize financial terminology and measures to recognize the financial impact of various project actions. Analyze financial data to identify key project issues.
Project Baseline Data: Utilize drawings and specifications to establish project baseline data.
Accounting Principles: Develop a thorough understanding of accounting principles relevant to project controls.
Trending & Forecasting: Assemble and analyze data for trending and forecasting purposes, preparing detailed analyses of progress trends and cost impacts.
Invoice Review: Participate in the review and approval of contractor invoices.
Earned Value Methodology: Apply knowledge of earned value methodology to track project performance.
Labor Cost Analysis: Collect and analyze data on manpower, labor hours, and labor cost requirements against budget limitations.
Cost Tracking: Track actual costs versus funding limitations, assisting in the management of purchase orders and subcontract commitments and expenditures.
Scope Control & Change Management: Possess comprehensive knowledge of scope control and change management processes.
Budget Creation: Assist in the creation of baseline budgets, ensuring accuracy and adherence to project requirements.
Scheduling Processes: Have exposure to scheduling process concepts and principles, integrating cost and schedule performance data.
Performance Management: Understand performance management and cost/schedule integration concepts.
Project Reporting: Support the project reporting process, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
Cost Review Meetings: Participate actively in project cost review meetings, contributing to strategic discussions and decision-making.
Procedure Development: Gather and analyze data to support the development of procedures and best practices.
Leadership Responsibilities:
Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of project control professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
Strategic Guidance: Provide strategic guidance to the team, ensuring alignment with project objectives and company goals.
Stakeholder Management: Communicate effectively with project stakeholders, providing clear and concise updates on project status and performance.
Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging the team to identify and implement process enhancements.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Project Management, or a related field.
Minimum of 10 years of experience in project controls, cost engineering, or a related discipline.
Proven leadership experience in managing and developing high-performing teams.
Proficiency in financial systems and project management software (e.g., SAP, Primavera P6).
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
ReqID: J10113503
Business Line: PCC
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Enterprise Capabilities
Career Area: Program & Project Management
Work Location Model: Hybrid
Legal Entity: AECOM Engineering & Construction Romania S.R.L.