Project Controls Analyst

Job Type: Contract

Role Overview

The Project Controls Analyst applies specialized scheduling expertise to support capital projects. This role develops and manages project schedules, monitors progress and risks, and recommends solutions to improve project performance, efficiency, and safety. The analyst works independently on complex scheduling matters and collaborates with project teams and contractors.

Core Competencies

• Action-oriented: Acts promptly on important issues and opportunities, takes on challenges, and works to resolve problems.
• Collaboration: Shares information, involves others appropriately, and welcomes their ideas and input.
• Communication: Communicates clearly and professionally, listens effectively, and provides thorough reports and documentation.
• Customer focus: Looks for ways to improve service, follows up on issues, and anticipates customer needs.
• Results and accountability: Drives work to completion, monitors progress, takes ownership, and follows through on commitments.
• Integrity and trust: Works honestly, honors commitments, and maintains professional standards.

Role-Specific Competencies

• Balances stakeholder needs and addresses conflicts fairly and transparently.
• Uses business and industry knowledge to guide decisions.
• Raises difficult issues, takes on unfamiliar challenges, and shares ideas constructively.
• Exercises sound judgment and knows when to act independently or escalate an issue.
• Considers complex issues from multiple perspectives, identifies root causes, and evaluates potential consequences.
• Adapts to new situations, learns from experience, and applies new concepts.
• Follows established processes and identifies opportunities to improve work practices.
• Seeks feedback and takes initiative in professional development.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the creation and approval of baseline schedules in collaboration with project teams.
• Develop, maintain, and manage schedules for assigned major and tactical capital projects with project team members and contractors.
• Update project progress, revise forecasts, and assess the effects of delays.
• Communicate schedule status and key risks to the project management team.
• Use the work breakdown structure (WBS) and project estimate to support schedule planning.
• Apply planning knowledge across pipeline and facilities construction phases, including permitting, land, survey, and construction, to sequence work.
• Identify and adjust critical paths to support project completion dates, and work with project teams to develop workarounds.
• Work with contractors to ensure schedules meet project controls requirements and review contractor baseline schedules and progress updates.

Project Schedules

• Build and maintain schedules in Primavera P6 using the latest template and WBS. Templates may be adjusted to fit project scope while retaining enough detail to explain the work, timing, and critical path.
• Update schedules at least monthly to align with project reporting. During construction, updates may be expected weekly.
• Analyze schedule updates for critical-path impacts and develop mitigation plans when needed.
• Baseline schedules at each project gate, using the G3 baseline as the primary baseline in P6. Label baselines by gate and save a baseline after each update cycle, with up to 10 assigned baselines.
• After each update cycle, produce and publish the overall project schedule.
• Keep the following standard reports available: critical-path schedule, 2–4-week lookahead, milestone report, and schedule variance report.

Education

A bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction, or business, or an equivalent combination.