FES Contract Controls Consultant

Job Summary

This role is responsible for supporting the Federal Energy Solutions group's contractor oversight and contract controls program. This role is critical in ensuring that all contracted work is executed in alignment with project goals, federal compliance standards, and performance expectations. This role supports managing cross-functional initiatives to improve contractor performance, streamline contract administration, and implement best practices in project controls, reporting, and analytics. This position plays a key leadership role in driving operational excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement across federally funded energy projects.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Support the development and execution of contract controls and contractor management strategies to ensure compliance, performance, and alignment with federal and corporate standards.
• Help manage multiple concurrent initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness within the Federal Energy Solutions Group without compromising safety, reliability, or regulatory compliance.
• Help direct matrixed teams across engineering, construction, procurement, legal, and finance to implement process improvements and ensure seamless contractor integration.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of standardized methodologies, templates, and tools for contract administration, data reporting, document collaboration, and regulatory support.
• Oversee contractor-provided schedules, and proffers alternatives to prevent or regain schedule slippage.
• Manages and tracks schedules, provides impact analysis of new or delayed project activities, and advises leadership of options to ensure project is completed on time and on budget.
• Collaborates with project management, site staff, and contractors, compiling and analyzing data to mitigate current or future project delays that could impact the critical path of the project.
• Provides scheduling expertise and analysis to support change order negotiations, contract development, and bid evaluation process.
• Develops and maintains scheduling practices and procedures and instruction and training of Primavera Project Planner (P6) and MS Project.
• Serves as lead for P6 system architecture and database administration.
• Builds, maintains, and enforces global structures and procedures.
• Verifies and documents contractor’s progress.
• Present recommendations to senior management and coordinate implementation as required.
• Consults with Design, Engineering, PMO, and Contractors, developing and maintaining performance metrics such as progress curves, and project milestones.
• Develop automated methods and systems to track workflow and performance for business processes.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experience required for entry into this job include the following:

7-8+ years of experience in construction scheduling. Experience in resource loading schedules, contractor-generated baseline schedules, time impact analyses, earned value management reporting, and monthly actual to plan variance analysis. Proficiency with (P6), MS Project, Excel, and Word. Ability to read engineering and construction drawings a plus. General construction contract knowledge. Understanding of work-scopes, sequencing, and construction. Experience managing P6 global and project-level user access, and permissions for dash-boarding. Ability to convert MS Project to Primavera P6. Strong interpersonal skills. Ability to work with multiple project teams in a matrixed organization.

Education Requirements

Education Level: Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education: 

Bachelor preferred in Business Administration

Contact your HR Business Partner for other discipline(s) that may be substituted, if substitution permissible.

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Working Conditions

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Test Description

No testing required.