About the job
AECOM is excited to announce an immediate opening for a Senior Project Schedule and Controls Specialist based in Panama City, Panama.
The role involves a variety of significant responsibilities, including but not limited to:
- Creating and implementing comprehensive cost administration and reporting systems, which encompass estimates, budgets, schedules, manhour tracking, cost progression, and earned value analysis.
- Evaluating project cost performance through analysis of expenditures, commitments, earned value, and forecasts.
- Maintaining current trend and change logs while ensuring adherence to change management protocols.
- Generating cost reports and delivering regular updates on project cost and schedule tracking to relevant teams.
- Collaborating closely with engineering teams on matters of scope, changes, trends, forecasts, and progress.
- Working with accounting teams to reconcile actual costs with accrual values, ensuring effective coordination between project cost systems and accounting frameworks.
- Engaging with subcontractors to discuss their progress, schedules, and contract administration.
- Coordinating with project personnel to develop efficient Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
- Preparing and maintaining engineering earned value reports.
- Providing cost and schedule contributions to monthly or bi-weekly reports, including assessments and presentations of current project status, and comparing forecasts against approved budgets while explaining any discrepancies.
- Ensuring all project control protocols are established and adhered to.
- Collecting, analyzing, and reducing cost data into statistics and metrics for benchmarking, scoping studies, execution planning, and estimating purposes.
This position aims to enhance our talent pool for upcoming opportunities.

