Project Controls Analyst I

At DT Midstream, we've got the energy to achieve great things! DT Midstream owns and operates a diverse, integrated portfolio of midstream pipeline, storage and gathering assets, allowing us to provide a comprehensive set of midstream services to our customers across the Southern, Northeastern and Midwestern United States and into Canada. Our newly independent public company is an energy industry leader with more than 20 years of proven success as part of DTE Energy and our focus is to be safe, caring, dependable and efficient in all we do.    

Job Summary

Assist project management teams by developing, monitoring and updating estimates and/or an integrated project plan and schedule and support project managers via file organization and note taking. Apply methods and techniques, standards, processes, procedures, guidelines and templates, to efficiently manage documents and develop and support the project managers to ensure efficient project execution.

Key Accountabilities

• Support project team and estimating/scheduling personnel efforts toward the development of the project plan and translating the project plan into the project estimate/schedule with management guidance.
• Assist with the preparation of project time and/or cost claims and ensure credibility of the information contained in the estimate/schedule. 
• Support project managers with document control for each assigned project.
• Ensure that required project estimating and/or planning/scheduling controls are appropriately implemented and maintained. 
• Analyze the effects to the critical path activities; identify changes to the project that affect the schedule and develop the recovery schedules and alternate courses of action. 
• Prepare and provide progress reports, trending charts, and project analysis. 
• Develop and record project historical estimate/schedule information and lessons learned.
• Participate in continuous improvement of the estimating/scheduling organization through benchmarking and maintaining affiliations with industry estimating/scheduling organizations and local/national chapters.

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• Associate’s degree (Bachelor's degree preferred) in technical or business discipline.

Other Qualifications

• Possess & maintain a valid driver’s license.
• Familiarity with the natural gas industry.
• Understanding of critical path method (CPM) scheduling with the ability to develop task logic into project schedules. 
• Exposure to CPM scheduling software, preferrable Microsoft Project.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable and effective in using Microsoft Office software.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills with the ability to identify key issues from a broad range of alternatives and recommend optimal solutions for various situations.
• Ability to apply project planning & implementation and/or continuous improvement principles to affect tangible, positive outcomes.
• Ability to apply methods and techniques, standards, processes, procedures, guidelines and templates, to efficiently manage, develop, and control project estimates/schedules. 
• Ability to develop/coordinate cross-functional work groups and projects, yielding optimal outcomes.
• Promotes an atmosphere conducive to the open exchange of new ideas, and alternatives to orthodox approaches.
• Ability to work in a ‘team’ and/or ‘matrixed’ structure with shifting priorities, supporting multiple clients and ability to embrace new/evolving responsibilities.
• Assignments are received in the form of results expected, within operating policies and procedures. Incumbent has the discretion to select from alternative approaches; decisions may involve changes to ‘normal’ work processes.

Physical Demands

The physical demands must be met to properly perform the functions of the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. To properly perform the integral functions of this job, the employee is required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, reach, talk, hear, grasp and carry objects. 

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee usually works in a business office or other appropriate location during hybrid days, with a moderate noise level.