Project Controls Specialist

Supports PMs and OEA teams with project control activities encompassing the elements of schedule, risk, budget, and resource management to improve project delivery and to  standardize OEA ways of working.

Collaboration:-

• Collaborate across OEA lanes in maintaining an effective Project Controls Framework, including cost, schedule, and risk monitoring.
• Work collaboratively with PMs (including cross-functional PMs where necessary) to support and challenge project control activities.
• Engage with vendors in managing procure-to-pay (P2P) activities.
• Work closely with Finance and GSSC on OEA budget, cost, and reporting.

Project Controls activities:-

• Supports ensuring project control activities are in place and operating across OEA projects which includes scheduling, resourcing, and risk management activities.
• Helps in monitoring project progress to increase predictability on OEA activities, pro-active project risk management, and improve cost efficiency.
• Monitors costs with the end goal of keeping projects within agreed budgets.
• Engages with PMs in keeping project documentations and processes are standardized across lanes. These include, amongst others, setting up and maintaining project folders, Smartsheet schedules, reports, and dashboards.
• Supports in ensuring P2P in OEA aligns with agreed processes including contracting, PR/PO, invoicing, and payments.
• Role models an organized way of working within OEA.

Project Oversight, Management & Controls:-

• Initiate and participate in calls/discussions with PMs and other stakeholders and ensure project controls are at the top of their agenda.
• Challenge the current ways of working suggesting a clear path to improvement.
• Implement Smartsheet as the leading tooling for project control activities.
• Guide PMs in applying OEA project methodology and project controls within their project management activities
• Initiate improvements/efficiencies in the project control domain.

Key Shared accountabilities:-

• Partnership with PMs, lanes, and cross-functional teams to achieve OEA budget tracking, reporting, and management.
• Project planning and delivery with PMs.
• Co-create Project Controls Framework, internal processes, and SOPs within OEA with O&Q Director.
• Standardize OEA ways of working with Orchestration team

Qualifications & Experience:-

• ​Minimum of 3 years experience project controls activities on (multidisciplinary) project teams, preferably within a global tech environment.
• ​Has the ability to collaborate (and influence) with different stakeholders, develop and manage processes, mitigate risks, and control quality to achieve positive outcomes.
• Has the ability to effectively manage (indirectly) resources across teams.

Location:-

• India.

Company Overview:-

Arcadis is the leading global Design & Consultancy for natural and built assets. Applying our deep market sector insights and collective design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services we work in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of their natural and built assets. We are 28,000 people, active in over 70 countries that generate €3.5 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world.