Associate, Project Controls

What The Role Is

The Planning Analyst is responsible for development, maintenance, and reporting of the project scheduling, the end-to-end project spend curve and liquidity forecasting process, and coordination of SAP budget uploads and Ad hoc procurement project reporting across Clearway's development portfolio. This position is responsible for automating and optimizing the scheduling process and communication. Reporting to the Director of Procurement Operations, this role serves as the primary point of coordination between Development, Procurement, Estimating, Engineering, Pre-Construction, and external vendors.

This position can be based in our San Francisco, CA, San Diego, CA, Denver, CO, or Scottsdale, AZ offices.

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications but see yourself contributing, please submit your resume

What You'll Be Doing

Project Schedule Management

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules in the scheduling software for development projects.
• Facilitate schedule review meetings and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, document schedule changes, decisions and impacts to validate schedule accuracy
• Monitor project progress, flag potential delays, and lead the development of recovery plans to keep projects on track.
• Prepare schedule status reports, look ahead schedules and variance analyses and communicate results to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Perform schedule risks analysis and support recovery planning and coordination.
• Maintain schedule templates, standardization and lesson-learned collaboration to improve scheduling practices across the project portfolio.
• Implement a streamlined scheduling update process, communication and reporting using AI enabled tools.
• Ad hoc procurement project reporting.

Project Spend Curve Management & Liquidity Reporting

• Responsible for coordinating the consolidated spend curve commitments aligned to the project schedule with input from internal and external stakeholders.
• Perform variance analysis, document and communicate key changs to the project team highlighting changes to the spend exposure pre-FNTP as it compares to the approved spend.
• Periodically create comprehensive spend forecasts reporting with variance analysis, identified risks and potential impact.
• Utilize AI enabled tools to automate reporting and variance reporting.

WBS Budget Data Management

• Monitor and track approved spend commitments and upload the approved budget value into SAP system.
• Communicate posted budget information to the project team for purchasing.
• Utilize AI-assisted status check to approved-but-not-yet-uploaded SAP budgets, and auto-draft the completed-budget communication to the project team for analyst review before sending.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of progressive project scheduling experience, including scheduling large-scale capital construction; renewable energy (solar, wind, or battery storage) experience strongly preferred, along with experience applying project management best practices and spend forecasting.
• Strong working knowledge of critical path method (CPM) scheduling principles, schedule risk analysis, and earned value management (EVM).
• Demonstrated ability to build, analyze, and maintain complex schedules with projects activities across multiple work streams.
• Familiarity with supply chain finance / reimbursement structures and contract payment milestone structures.
• Working knowledge of the SAP budget module for Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) creation, budget upload, and project coding workflows.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to independently manage a recurring, deadline-driven reporting cycle across multiple projects at once.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present schedule status and risk clearly to the project team and leadership.
• A team player, willing to collaborate with other functional groups.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Project, including resource loading, baselining, multi-project consolidation, and custom reporting, along with strong general Microsoft Office skills.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining accountability in prioritizing competing deadlines and proactively escalating risks or delays to management.
• Ability to travel up to 10%

No visa sponsorship or any kind of sponsorship for employment authorization is available for this role, now or in the future.

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