Kleinfelder · 13 hours ago
Project Controls Specialist
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$63K/yr - $105K/yr
5+ years expKleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join their Construction Services Area in San Diego, CA. The role involves managing project forecasting, cost control, documentation, and client reporting, while ensuring compliance with contract requirements and maintaining strong communication with stakeholders.
ArchitectureCivil EngineeringRisk Management
Responsibilities
Prepares forms, invoices, work orders, subconsultant work orders, and other documents related to the contracts, task orders and subcontracts
Prepares monthly client reports, projection reports and work plans, contract, task order and subconsultant documents
Conducts investigations and inquiries into specific project problems, including payment, claims, and compliance issues, and works closely with clients, subconsultants, and task order and contract management to resolve
Develops and implements contract and task order budget analysis, earned value analysis, status reports, and cost projections based on project scope. Tracks and monitors variances
Sets up advanced invoice templates and assists in review of invoices for discrepancies, compliance with contract requirements, and compliance with prevailing wage law. Conducts inquiries and resolves specific project accounting issues. Assists with contract administration and ensuring compliance with contract requirements in coordination with the Legal/Contracts group
Manages contract and task order projections and assists with resource planning
Assists in the development of cost proposals, and ongoing monitoring and controlling of costs to achieve financial target metrics for assigned contracts and task orders
Effectively uses Kleinfelder workflows and processes to assist with completion of proposals, and development of contracts, and to perform maintenance of project records, monitoring of project performance, billing of clients, collection of receivables and project closeout
Performs project administration to meet or exceed client expectations while meeting industry standard of care
Assists in the review and approval of weekly timecards and expense reporting to ensure that time is accurately recorded per the expectations of the assigned work, that expenses are allowable per the terms of the contract and that all prevailing wage requirements have been met
Acts as the labor compliance professional for assigned contracts and task orders including being educated on the most current prevailing wage laws, review of company and subconsultant certified payroll, providing assistance and direction to subconsultants on the various components of the scope of work as it applies to prevailing wage, and remaining compliant within the DIR labor compliance uploading platform and other agency specific compliance tools
Handles customer questions and complaints, communicates with customers, handles service problems politely and efficiently, follows procedure to solve customer problems, understands company products, services, and maintains a pleasant and professional image
Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles changes, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance and punctuality requirements
Prioritizes well, shows energy, reacts to opportunities, instills urgency in others, meets deadlines
Performs various functions of assigned tasks under the unique requirements of an on-call contract recognizing the likelihood of fluctuation of workload and necessity of accepting non-normal on-going work hours
Qualification
Required
Associate degree from a two-year college in finance, business, project management, or equivalent combination of education and experience required
California Prevailing Wage / Federal Davis Bacon training is required
Minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant experience
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office with an emphasis on Excel is required
Must demonstrate the ability to learn new software promptly
Excellent organizational and communication skills are essential
Preferred
A bachelor's degree is preferred
Preferred minimum of 4 years of financial/accounting or construction management experience
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life insurance
401(k) plan
Paid holidays
Company
Kleinfelder
Kleinfelder is an employee-owned engineering, science, and architecture consulting firm.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
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