Project Controls SME

Key Responsibilities
Provide expert guidance on cost estimating strategy, methodology, and best practices for large-scale, complex nuclear construction projects.
Develop, review, and analyze detailed project cost estimates from conceptual design through final construction phases, covering all project elements, including engineering, procurement, and construction.
Serve as a primary resource for validating and verifying internal and external cost estimates from contractors and subcontractors.
Analyze historical cost data and apply advanced statistical and analytical techniques to improve the accuracy and reliability of cost estimates.
Collaborate with the project controls, engineering, and project management teams to ensure that cost estimates are fully integrated with work breakdown structures (WBS), project schedules, and risk assessments.
Lead complex cost risk analysis activities, providing expert input on potential cost impacts and mitigation strategies.
Prepare detailed cost estimates and supporting documentation for change orders, contract modifications, and claims.
Present cost estimates, analyses, and findings to senior NNSA leadership and stakeholders, defending the basis of the estimate and addressing questions.
Mentor junior estimators and support the development of internal estimating procedures and processes consistent with DOE Order 413.3B.
Stay current with industry trends, market conditions, and technology related to heavy industrial and nuclear construction to ensure estimates reflect current conditions.

Responsibilities:
Provide guidance to management on classification requirements and compliance and on the CD process and deliverable format
Review and provide input to specifications for engineered equipment and/or subcontracts
Review and provide input to estimators on resources (labor and other-than-labor) needed to perform the scope of work
Provide input to schedulers on sequence, durations, and logic of activities
Provide input to management regarding risk-informed schedules to serve as the basis for establishing milestones and PBIs
Provide input to engineers, estimators, and schedulers on constructability, maintain-ability, operability, and commissioning
Provide input to technical writers for BOEs, BOS, and WBS data dictionary

Basic Job Requirements
Must have a working knowledge of Federal (including Department of Energy Orders), State, and Local codes and standards applicable to project controls
Fifteen years of experience in engineering, construction, operations, estimating, scheduling, project controls, proposal development, and/or project management
Five years of experience demonstrating knowledge of desired area of subject matter expertise
Bachelors degree. Candidates not meeting the education requirements may be considered based on additional relevant experience