Senior Project Controls Engineer

Job Summary

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At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy.

We’re one global team over 50,000 strong driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Enterprise Capabilities is a service-led organization within AECOM, enabling access to a global talent pool. With offices in India, China, Spain, Poland, Romania, South Africa and the Philippines, our teams of technical professionals provide around the clock project support assisting AECOM teams around the world to deliver faster, smarter and better.

By joining Enterprise Capabilities, you will have the unique opportunity to work on AECOM’s monumental projects located around the world, contributing to our purpose of delivering a better world.

AECOM is seeking a Senior Project Controls Engineer to be based in our Sacramento Office.

Responsibilities :

• Support project team on cost, time, schedule, change management and reporting for successful project executions.
• Integration of scope, cost, schedule and progress of the assigned projects.
• Facilitate the change management process and continuously forecast project schedule and cost impacts.
• Review, analyze project information and provide guidance to project execution team on the project health.
• Prepare and review project controls deliverables with Project Managers and Technical Leads.
• Follow procedures for consistency and predictability, escalate any improvement of deficiency on the process or procedures.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, excellent business and technical writing.
• Proven team player with the skills and ability to build and maintain internal and external relationships.
• Skilled in the use of company cornerstone systems and able to represent cost data formats necessary to control the project.
• Understands financial terminology and measures and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions.
• Participates in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues.
• May assist in leading junior staff through assignment tasks.
• Participates in tracking action items.
• Able to use drawings and specifications in the establishment of project baseline data.
• Knowledgeable of accounting principles with extensive understanding of the manner in which the company establishes and documents the financial position.
• Prepares revised cost forecast for select accounts.
• Prepares analysis of progress trends and cost impact. May participate in reviewing and approving contractor invoices.
• Works hands on with earned value monitoring.
• Evaluates manpower, labor hour, and labor cost requirements versus budget limitations including preparation of variance analysis.
• Compares actual cost to funding limitations. Prepares expenditure forecasts to identify critical points in project funding.
• Reviews purchase order and subcontract commitments and expenditures. Maintains tracking database to ensure that subcontractor funding is aligned with work authorization and expenditures.
• Understands the manner in which profits on projects are budgeted and the extent to which the budget value is achieved.
• Possesses the knowledge of scope control and change management. Involved in the tracking system to ensure that project management is fully aware of detailed change order status.
• Creates and assists with cost / schedule baseline budgets.
• Familiar with basic cost / schedule integration and basic critical path analysis and other rescheduling concepts.
• Conducts or assists in performance measurement and associated cost trending.
• Prepares and assists in various levels of project reporting.
• Participates in and may lead project cost review meetings.
• Assists in procedure development and implementation.

Minimum Requirements

BA / BS + 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and / or education.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering.
• Experience doing Project Controls on large infrastructure projects.

What We Offer

We will give you 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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities.

We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

Join us and let’s get started. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Job Category

Engineering - Transportation - Rail

Business Line

Transportation

Business Group

Design and Consulting Services Group (DCS)

Strategic Business Unit

West

Country

United States of America

Position Status

Full Time

Requisition / Vacancy No.

275126BR

Virtual : Yes

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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