Associate, Project Controls

The posting, as Clearway Energy wrote it

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

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edge, experience & expertise. We intentionally foster a culture of inclusion that empowers our employees to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities & protected veterans to join the team. Clearway is a proud promoter of employment opportunities for our Military & Veterans.

What We Provide
Clearway offers all eligible employees working 20+ hours per week a comprehensive menu of benefits: generous PTO, medical, dental & vision care, HSAs with company contributions, health FSAs, dependent daycare FSAs, commuter benefits, relocation, & a 401(k) plan with employer match, a variety of life & accident insurances, fertility programs, adoption assistance, generous parental leave, tuition reimbursement, & benefits for employees in same-sex marriages, civil unions & domestic partnerships. For more on Clearway benefits, visit our Benefits Website .

Notice to Applicants
Clearway Energy is strongly committed to a philosophy of equal opportunity and fully complies with equal employment laws , ordinances, and regulations for all applicants and employees. We will make reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to apply and compete for employment opportunities for which they are qualified. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting@clearwayenergy.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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Notice to California Applicants
Clearway Energy is strongly committed to a philosophy of equal opportunity and fully complies with equal employment laws , ordinances and regulations for all applicants and employees.