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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!\nWe 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.\nEssential Duties & Responsibilities:\nAssist in monitoring the project budget and forecast in accordance with approved standard operating procedures.\n\nParticipate in monthly EAC meetings to validate and review current EAC’s, including providing justification of variances.\n\nAssist Bond Program Controls Manager in conducting cost variance analysis of reported data to identify trends and mitigate potential budget impacts.\n\nMonitor identified trends and mitigation plans over time against actual performance.\n\nReview and analyze budget and expenditures against projects based upon various funding sources.\n\nCollaborate 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.\n\nReview and analyze monthly cost reports and monthly progress reports.\n\nReview staffing plans, identify any excessive peaks or potential cost impacts and make recommendations for peak leveling.\n\nProvide cost coding and budget verification for contract change orders and amendments for impact on budget/timetable.\n\nReview task order requests, change orders and amendments to ensure budget availability, accurate cost coding and reporting.\n\nEnsure implementation of client policies, procedures and plans regarding cost management of capital projects with multiple funding sources.\n\nAllocate the ETCs when required (PBA, Change Orders, etc.).\n\nMonitor and manage the ETCs for each project.\n\nDevelop standard and ad hoc reports for internal and external stakeholders.\n\nDevelop 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\n\nCreate budget transfers, produces financial closeouts.\n\nWork with the Project Managers on project budget issues (verifying budgets for additional Task Orders needed for IOR, LOR, additional services, etc.).\n\nAssist the Project Managers with amendment exhibits to contracts.\n\nCoordinate 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.\n\nVerification of charge codes for purchase requisitions and change orders to ensure proper cost accounting.\n\nAssist with preparation of reporting on budget and cost as directed by management.\n\nCollect/review draft PBA’s w/ PM’s for monthly submission including cost verification of previous amendments.\n\nSupport development of weekly/monthly cost and status reports for project team.\n\nPerform necessary data entry for budget and forecast impacts.\n\nDevelop and maintain change management logs per standardized processes and procedures.\n\nTravel to offsite project locations as required.\n\nOther job-related duties or projects as assigned.\n\nRequired Education and Experience:\nBachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field.\n\n3-5 years professional experience in program and/or project controls on a construction program.\n\nExperience 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.\n\nCumming 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. 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