Technical Specialist

Location: Fresno CA

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid 24 days per month on-site (office work team meetings and possible project walkdowns)

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Pay Rate: $46.00$50.00 / Hour (USD)
• Travel Requirements: Once or twice per engagement period for team meetings and possible project walkdowns. Approved work-related travel and training expenses may be reimbursed with prior manager approval.
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

This position will function as a Real Estate Technical Specialist (RETS) supporting project financial controls governance and reporting within a large California-based energy utility organization.

Financial and Project Controls

• Provide budget and forecast oversight to support alignment between approved funding current forecasts commitments and actual costs.
• Create maintain and update project records in FRISBE.
• Manage SAP Planning Orders and Specific Orders including applicable order attributes and settlement rules.
• Support the Project Stage Gate Authorization and Project Financial Authorization processes.
• Perform QA/QC reviews of job estimates authorization packages financial records and supporting documentation.
• Populate and reconcile actual cost data within applicable forecasting and reporting tools.
• Identify budget forecast commitment and actual-cost variances and coordinate follow-up with the appropriate project stakeholders.

Governance and Compliance

• Support compliance with established Project Management procedures and financial governance requirements.
• Assist with Project and Program Authorization Cost Management Schedule Management Actual and Payment Application and Integrated Change Control processes.
• Maintain accurate project documentation records approvals and change-control logs.
• Monitor assigned projects for data quality process compliance and completion of required monthly activities.

Reporting

• Monitor track analyze and report project budget forecast commitment accrual and actual-cost information.
• Administer the monthly project accrual process through Smartsheet and support the posting of Goods Receipt in Progress entries.
• Prepare Portfolio Executive Reports spend reports purchase-order commitment reports and other recurring project-control reports.
• Perform QA/QC reviews of CapEx report updates.
• Complete monthly Data Quality Assurance activities to help ensure project reporting is accurate complete and submitted on time.
• Coordinate with Project Managers Planners Project Controls Finance and other stakeholders to resolve reporting or data discrepancies.

• Project controls experience
• Financial reporting and forecasting
• Cost management
• SAP
• FRISBE
• Smartsheet
• Microsoft Excel
• Experience working within established project-governance processes

• Local candidates only must be within the service territory.
• Role is hybrid with 24 on-site days per month encompassing office work team meetings and possible project walkdowns.
• PPE (clothing and shoes) must be provided by the vendor/supplier. Suppliers must be prepared to provide hard hat vest and goggles if needed.
• Equipment: Personal or vendor-provided cell phone required. Client will provide a laptop; in the event of major laptop delays the vendor must provide a device until the client laptop is ready. External monitors must be provided by the vendor. Any other home office tools must be provided by the vendor.

• Medical Vision and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

This client is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric energy utilities in the United States serving approximately 16 million people across a 70000-square-mile service area spanning northern and central California. With roughly 25000 employees the organization operates some of the most complex energy infrastructure in the country transmission lines pipelines substations and generation facilities. As the energy sector undergoes rapid transformation this organization manages the intersection of traditional infrastructure and emerging clean energy solutions creating meaningful opportunities for engineers technologists tradespeople and business professionals including project controls specialists financial analysts systems analysts and data governance professionals.

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking financial services technology life sciences biotech utilities and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-12748

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