Principal Project Controls Specialist

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

Your Day to Day

• Responsible for all project controls activities for moderate to high complexity project, a portfolio of low complexity projects, or for a subset of high complexity projects or programs scope.
• Lead teams through all phases of a moderate complexity project.
• Serve as a project controls subject matter expert focusing on project scheduling to include capture of estimated costs.
• Ability to produce schedule related metrics and other reports as required.
• Must have advanced skills in communication, and leadership.
• Extensive Primavera scheduling experience required.
• Must understand Work Breakdown Structures and their application regarding project scheduling.
• Excel software experience required.
• Coordinate required tasks/deadlines. Escalate issues to appropriate levels of management.
• Initiate and plan all controls aspects of a project, which includes, but is not limited to project scheduling, establishing schedule baselines, and associated risk registers.
• Apply tools and techniques to plan work such that inefficiencies are reduced, and overall project performance is optimized. Apply schedule, cost, and/or risk analytics to confirm validity of schedules.
• Lead schedule, cost, and/or risk activities. Interpret and transmit project/contract requirements to functional groups. Process subsequent schedule changes following an integrated change control process.
• Participate as an active contributor to assigned project teams.
• Promote teamwork and effective communication, which includes maintenance and dissemination of project metrics to ensure team, customer, and all stakeholders are kept informed of project status.
• Develop or oversee project databases, systems and procedures to ensure efficient handling and transmission of project correspondence and documentation between project team members.
• Identify and communicate opportunities for improvement, lessons learned, and risk avoidance for future work and throughout the project lifecycle.
• Serve as project controls point of contact for internal customers in support of the project
• Integrate project’s objectives and actions through participation with other project groups in matters of common concern.
• Identify, assess, and implement value-added improvement opportunities which will improve overall project performance.

Who You Are:

As a successful candidate, you’d bring the following to the team:

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Engineering, Business, Accounting, Construction Management or related technical discipline; or equivalent demonstrated skills within project management, project controls, and project scheduling.
• 10+ years construction project scheduling experience for technical and/or engineered projects.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Profession certification preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Candidate must be self-driven, capable of staying on task with minimal supervision, and able to drive project controls tasks as a valued member of the team.

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry’s first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being. In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacations and Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
• Educational Reimbursement Program
• Employee Referral Program

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

EOE of Minorities / Females / Vets / Disability.