Lead Project Management Specialist (Colombia / Venezuela)

Job Description SummaryWe are looking for Lead Project Control to join our team in Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico. Project Control function is supporting our operations to manage the project schedule & costs of our projects during tendering and project delivery phase to ensure we deliver on-time and within budget. Project Control will participate on project planning, schedule and cost analysis and will work closely with Project Manager and Project team. Project Control is responsible for the day-to-day monitoring of operational performance that is both historical and forward looking.Job DescriptionRoles and ResponsibilitiesDevelops and maintains the project schedule by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project.Provides contractually required customer reporting and can communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters.Provides look ahead, backlog reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities.Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunitiesDevelops cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where neededChecks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates.During the project delivery phase, you will identify, escalate, and support the project team to mitigate potential schedule and cost overrun risksDuring tendering, you support on building logical and feasible schedules that meets customer objectives by leveraging historical durations and lessons learnt there by forming the basis of an accurate cost estimate.Basic understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Good understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.May have some autonomy to make decisions within a d