Posting Title

Marine Energy Project Controller

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Location

CO - Boulder

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Position Type

Regular

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Hours Per Week

40

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Working at NREL

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Job Description

Job Summary

NREL's Marine Energy Research and Development group at the Flatirons Campus has an opening for a full-time Project Controller. The primary responsibility of this role is to provide project management and controls support to research staff. The emphasis of this role is on project administration including planning, coordination, tracking, and reporting. The project controller will work under the supervision and guidance of the Lab Program Manager, Program Integrator, and Marine Energy Research and Development Group Manager, as well as project leaders and senior staff to support execution of project objectives and deadlines, while assisting to keep project deliverables on time and within budget. The team will rely on the successful candidate to provide detailed analysis and periodic reports on project status. The successful candidate will also work with the group manager and program leadership to balance staff and technical resources across projects.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Project planning, scheduling, tracking, budgeting, document control, change control, and regular reporting and analysis.

• Subcontracts administration including accruals, approving invoices, and tracking deliverables.

• Scheduling of project meetings and task coordination to keep milestones and deliverables on track.

• Reporting to Water Power leadership regarding staff and technical resource availability and utilization.

Expected Job Duties

• Supporting (multiple) project teams with project management activities: creating schedules, inputting planning data into relevant NREL planning and financial tools, extracting data from relevant financial tools, monitoring progress against deliverables, tracking costs against plans

• Completing regular assessments of project progress and finances and updating of plans when indicated with leadership and management input

• Contributing to and preparing reports, presentations, and group communications to internal stakeholders and leadership

• Supporting communications to and tracking engagements with existing and potential partners and applicants.

• Supporting the development and submittal of proposals and work plans by coordinating with PIs, developing templates and draft materials, compiling required documentation, uploading and submitting into designated systems.

• Managing and coordinating subcontracting and procurement procedures

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Basic Qualifications

Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 2 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree or equivalent relevant education/experience.

* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.

Additional Required Qualifications

• Basic understanding and ability to apply project management principles, concepts, practices and standards.

• Proficiency and experience using Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) as well as other computer software programs needed to effectively track and manage a project

• Ability to understand and navigate financial planning and tracking systems including NREL specific applications (e.g., EPM, NQuIRE, ASIQ) in order to gather and interpret project controls relevant data

• Ability to prepare professional communications that are appropriate for internal stakeholders and leadership

• Excellent interpersonal, conflict resolution, teaming, and collaboration skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent prioritization and ability to manage multiple assignments

• Strong problem-solving, time management, and self-organization skills

• Demonstrated attention to detail, especially as it applies to project performance, tracking and reporting

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain trusting relationships with team members and project leaders

• Desire to continually develop project management skills, including learning how to use and apply new project management tools or using existing tools to meet project management needs

• Strong interest in learning about technical and institutional aspects of projects

• Proficiency and experience administering project sites, on platforms such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.

• Thrives in a fast paced, innovative environment

• Initiates projects, works unsupervised, completes tasks independently, solves roadblocks, and does whatever it takes to drive results

• Experience with national laboratory or governmental structures and processes

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Job Application Submission Window

The anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.

Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)

Job Profile: Professional II / Annual Salary Range: $63,600 - $104,900

NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.

Benefits Summary

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.

* Based on eligibility rules

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