Project Controls

• Planning and Scheduling: enable Project Controls to create a realistic and efficient project schedule while maintaining flexibility to adapt to changes during project execution.

• Cost Management: ensures the project stays within budget while optimizing resource usage.

• Project Estimating: develop accurate and reliable cost and resource estimates for the project's lifecycle scope.

• Change Management: ensures any changes to the project’s scope, schedule, or budget are accurately assessed, approved, and managed.

• Earned Value Management (EVM): monitors project performance by integrating scope, schedule, and cost data. EVM provides a clear picture of how well the project is performing in relation to its budget and timeline.

• Risk Management: identifies, analyzes, and mitigates risks that could impact a project’s cost, schedule, scope, or quality. Effective risk management ensures that potential issues are proactively addressed, reducing the likelihood of project delays or cost overruns.

• Resource Planning and Utilization Analysis: ensures that the right resources (people, equipment, materials) are available and effectively utilized throughout the project lifecycle.

• Performance Monitoring and Reporting: is the crucial role in tracking project progress, measuring performance against key metrics, and providing stakeholders with accurate, timely information to support key decision-making. This helps ensure the project stays on track, any deviations are promptly addressed, and there is transparency to the Client, Stakeholders, and Project Team.

KMEA Project Controls:

KMEA’s Project Controls Department is led by Vice President, Ms. Jennifer Salinas, PSP, STS-C. Jennifer has 26 years of experience focused on program and project management, project controls, accounting, business development, technical writing, and software system integrations. She has managed large, multidisciplinary teams both in person and remotely across multiple locations, including the contiguous US, international project sites, and Alaska, including the North Slope. Her project experience ranges from small projects under $50,000 to the largest educational program in the country, Los Angeles Unified School District managing and tracking over $20 Billion in bonds, across every phase of the project lifecycle. Since 2009, she has held a Planning and Scheduling Professional certification from the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEi); and in 2012 she obtained a Safety Trained Supervisor for Construction certification from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP).

The KMEA Project Controls team is responsible for all day-to-day project controls tasks providing clients with:

• In-depth senior level reviews and root cause analyses,
• Effective communication to internal and external stakeholders,
• Collaboration and cohesive teamwork across various departments and multi-disciplinary teams, and
• Consistency in meeting client deliverables ensuring they have timely and accurate information to assist them in making informed, comprehensive decisions.