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Assistant Project Controls Manager

Cumming Group200 open roles

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$80,900 – $107,900 a year
Where
San Diego, CA
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13.6% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Cumming Group postings stay open a median of 26 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.3%1 day
  2. 4.7%3 days
  3. 13.6%7 days
  4. 21.9%14 days
  5. 36.9%30 days
  6. 59.0%60 days
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Cumming Group median: 26 days open

The posting

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 15 rankings in ENR. With over 70 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

We are currently hiring an Assistant Project Controls Specialist located in San Diego, CA. This opportunity will have you working within our Education project sector. The Education team is a prime consultant to multiple school districts in the country and provides services to K-12 as well as higher education institutions nationally. You will be teaming with project, program, and client leadership to provide premier educational facilities for our nation’s youth and adults seeking to better themselves through learning.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Assist in monitoring the project budget and forecast in accordance with approved standard operating procedures.
  • Participate in monthly EAC meetings to validate and review current EAC’s, including providing justification of variances.
  • Assist Bond Program Controls Manager in conducting cost variance analysis of reported data to identify trends and mitigate potential budget impacts.
  • Monitor identified trends and mitigation plans over time against actual performance.
  • Review and analyze budget and expenditures against projects based upon various funding sources.
  • Collaborate with schedulers to review cost and schedule performance to determine cost overruns/underruns, issues with project durations, or variances in spend analyzing plan versus expenditures over period.
  • Review and analyze monthly cost reports and monthly progress reports.
  • Review staffing plans, identify any excessive peaks or potential cost impacts and make recommendations for peak leveling.
  • Provide cost coding and budget verification for contract change orders and amendments for impact on budget/timetable.
  • Review task order requests, change orders and amendments to ensure budget availability, accurate cost coding and reporting.
  • Ensure implementation of client policies, procedures and plans regarding cost management of capital projects with multiple funding sources.
  • Allocate the ETCs when required (PBA, Change Orders, etc.).
  • Monitor and manage the ETCs for each project.
  • Develop standard and ad hoc reports for internal and external stakeholders.
  • Develop reports that support budgeting, cost control, auditing, asset tracking, using various systems and data bases to include but not limited to UII, Proliance, DELTEK, and other systems used by the Program Management Office
  • Create budget transfers, produces financial closeouts.
  • Work with the Project Managers on project budget issues (verifying budgets for additional Task Orders needed for IOR, LOR, additional services, etc.).
  • Assist the Project Managers with amendment exhibits to contracts.
  • Coordinate with the Project Managers/Construction Manager to establish and maintain data coding structures, project control tools, and quality data for budgets, contracts, change orders, trends and actual costs.
  • Verification of charge codes for purchase requisitions and change orders to ensure proper cost accounting.
  • Assist with preparation of reporting on budget and cost as directed by management.
  • Collect/review draft PBA’s w/ PM’s for monthly submission including cost verification of previous amendments.
  • Support development of weekly/monthly cost and status reports for project team.
  • Perform necessary data entry for budget and forecast impacts.
  • Develop and maintain change management logs per standardized processes and procedures.
  • Travel to offsite project locations as required.
  • Other job-related duties or projects as assigned.

Required Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field.
  • 3-5 years professional experience in program and/or project controls on a construction program.
  • Experience working through the entire project life cycle. Knowledge of theories, principles and practices of cost/schedule management, earned value management, change management, forecasting, and risk assessment.

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Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Group’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, marital status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender (including gender expression and gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions, including breastfeeding), military service, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, veteran status or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. All such decisions are based on (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.

All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described above. To this end, Cumming Group complies with all provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, all of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor, and all similar state and local laws.

The salary range for this full-time role is $80,900.00-$107,900.01 per year. Ranges are determined based on the position, geography, client and industry experience and level, and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range reflects base salary only, and not the total compensation package. Cumming Group reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on a candidate’s experience, skills, and qualifications, including client requirements.

In addition to base salary, Cumming Group offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

  • Medical
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) Matching
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Holidays
  • Short and long-term disability
  • Employee Assistance Program

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