Senior Project Controls Specialist

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ABOUT HERMOSA

Hermosa, located approximately 75 miles south-east of Tucson, Arizona, is the only advanced mining project in the United States as of 2023 that could produce two federally designated critical minerals—manganese and zinc—as well as silver and lead. The project has the potential to help power the nation’s clean energy future, strengthen the domestic supply chain of critical minerals, grow the local economy, and improve lives in Santa Cruz County and the surrounding community for generations to come.

WHAT SOUTH32 OFFERS
•    Annual short-term incentive bonus that recognizes both your individual performance and the overall success of the business.
•    When you choose to contribute more into your retirement savings, South32 will match it up to a certain percentage.
•    South32 provides you with 4 weeks paid time off.
•    12 weeks full-paid parental leave for primary careers and 2 weeks full-paid parental leave for secondary careers

ABOUT THE ROLE 

The Senior Project Controls Specialist will be responsible for tasks related to the managements of budgets, cost variance analysis, support in the estimation of accruals, monitoring of contractors performance including cost, engineering/construction progress, change management, reporting and adherence to South32, standard, monitoring the impact of changes and identification of trends, management of changes for assigned scopes advisement of corrective/preventative actions to influence on-budget delivery of the construction scopes. This role will report to the Project Controls Manager and support the project execution team in achieving project objectives as they relate to project controls.

This role is a Permanent position based at the Hermosa Project site, near Patagonia, Arizona, with the opportunity to work hybrid schedule from the Tucson, Arizona office.

Other key responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to: 

•    Tracks and analyzes the project costs including budgets, commitments, actuals, accruals and forecasts.
•    Predicts and mitigates potential cost impacts to the project by managing, monitoring, trending and reporting changes in accordance with the project change management process.
•    Maintains a current overall project forecast to completion, including owner’s costs and contractor’s costs in the cost management application/system, applicable to assigned scopes.
•    Monitors and reports the actual costs compared to budget, including detailed variance analysis.
•    Receives commitment and spend information from SAP, contractors, and finance and collates data into cost the management system.
•    Generates monthly reports, inputs, including engineering and/or construction dashboards, applicable to assigned scopes.

•    Maintains adherence to the project cost coding structure and Project Contracts & Procurement in coding of commitments in SAP.
•    Identifies and implements improvement initiatives, including opportunities for increased capital efficiency and productivity.
•    Collects cost data in support of performance measurements and project benchmarking.
•    Provides budget and estimate cost input for packages of work to Project Contracts & Procurement.

ABOUT YOU 

You will have experience and demonstrate capability in the following: 

•    Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Finance, Construction, Technology, Engineering or related field
•    Minimum of five (5) years of construction or mining industry experience

•    Certification from AACE or PMI or another relevant professional body considered an asset

•    Experience in developing project control, cost, planning, document control, and change management processes for execution of major capital projects.
•    Previous cost engineering applications experience such as Prism, Ecosys and SAP (preferred)
•    Capital project experience at Owner/EPCM organizations (preferred) 
•    Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, SharePoint, Aconex, Cost Management systems
•    Maintain high standards of professional and ethical conduct
•    Strong English language written and oral communication skills
•    Effective communication with other departments and leadership
•    Proven track record of developing and maintaining a safe work culture
•    Ability to work under pressure, maintain composure, set priorities, and work with a project team

South32 is committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the communities in which we operate.  We provide a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.