The Role
The Project Control Team's primary objective is to support the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) group in the design, planning, and execution of company infrastructure by providing management with critical decision-making information that ensures projects deliver on time and on budget. The Team does this by closely collaborating with other functional teams throughout the project lifecycle to ensure adequate definition of scope, cost, and schedule; establish reasonable baselines; identify and manage risk; and track, monitor, and report project performance. The Team can then make valuable recommendations that improve and drive project performance.
Tesla is seeking a Project Controls Analyst with relevant construction experience to support the buildout of Tesla's global facilities and infrastructure. This position will be directly responsible to the project controls lead working on cost management, cost analysis, cost reporting and benchmarking throughout the various design stages, as well as during project execution. In addition, this role will support the change management and risk management process for design and construction.

Responsibilities

• Cost Management: Support the development and implementation of cost management program for construction projects, including approved budget, total commitments, cost incurred and invoiced costs. Work closely with project team to forecast project costs during project execution.


• Change Management/Cost Forecasting: Support the Change Management process to ensure accurate cost projection for each project.


• Cost Communication: Produce reports/dashboards to communicate cost performance to various teams.


• Cost Analysis & tracking: Perform trend analysis and actively evaluate project cost performance to identify potential risk areas and validate forecast.


• Reporting: Maintain cost tools and reports to communicate project cost metrics and performance with the project team and senior managers so they can make data based decisions.


• Risk Assessment: Work with key stakeholders to identify project risks and track them.


• Benchmarking: Track historical cost to help develop up to date benchmarking data for estimating.


• Other work as needed in support of successful project delivery.

• 2 years of experience in Project Controls: preferably in industrial, manufacturing, and/or high-tech industries


• Have an innovative approach to the work for better efficiency.


• Open-minded, collaborative, and team oriented attitude.


• Ability to work with a lot of data and present it in a meaningful way.


• Capacity to work within a high-performance, cross-functional and fast changing organization with extremely tight timelines and aggressive goals


• Understanding of construction means and methods in the civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing disciplines


• Knowledge of construction estimating and scheduling.


• Advanced MS Excel skills


• Ability to work SQL is preferred.


• Software systems and packages including Aconex, Oracle Unifier, P6, Bluebeam, CAD, and other construction packages


• Detail oriented with exceptional organizational skills


• Demonstrated problem solving ability in cross-functional environment.


• Strong work ethic

• As a full time Tesla employee, you will receive full benefits from day 1 for you and your dependents.


• Kaiser and UnitedHealthcare PPO and HSA plans (including infertility coverage)


• 3 medical plan choices with $0 paycheck contribution


• Vision & dental plans (including orthodontic coverage)


• Company paid Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability


• 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits


• Employee Assistance Program, Paid Time Off, and Paid Holidays


• Back-up childcare and employee discounts