Job Title:
Project Management Analyst
Duration:
6 months (possibility of long term)
Schedule:
5/40
Location:
Houston, Texas
This opportunity is focused on providing analytical, coordination, and administrative support within a capital projects environment across planning and execution activities. The role offers broad exposure to project management, project controls, cost and schedule tracking, governance, and stakeholder coordination within a regulated industrial setting. This position is based primarily in an office environment with periodic travel to operational facilities and related project locations.
Responsibilities:
- Provide direct project management and business support to the Vice President of Capital Projects and LNG Technology and to the Projects Group.
- Prepare concise, accurate executive reports, dashboards, presentations, briefing materials, meeting packages, and decision-support analyses.
- Collect, validate, analyze, and consolidate project data related to scope, cost, schedule, progress, risk, change, procurement, staffing, and key performance indicators.
- Maintain project trackers, action-item logs, decision logs, risk and opportunity registers, change logs, governance calendars, and other project controls records.
- Support development and maintenance of project schedules, cost forecasts, cash-flow profiles, estimates, staffing plans, and resource forecasts in coordination with project managers and project controls personnel.
- Monitor project performance against approved baselines, identify variances and emerging trends, and escalate potential issues with fact-based analysis and recommended follow-up actions.
- Coordinate recurring project reviews, stage-gate activities, risk reviews, contractor performance reviews, and leadership meetings, including agendas, materials, minutes, actions, and closure tracking.
- Assist with development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Capital Project Execution work processes, procedures, templates, governance requirements, and quality systems.
- Support project document control and information management, including organization, version control, completeness checks, and timely distribution of project records and deliverables.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external contractors to obtain required information, resolve data gaps, and support timely completion of project deliverables.
- Assist with contract, purchase order, invoice, commitment, and change-order tracking in coordination with Procurement, Finance, project controls, and project leadership.
- Perform research, benchmarking, data gathering, and preliminary analyses to support capital planning, business development screening, feasibility evaluations, and special assignments.
- Support Management of Change and applicable project governance and regulatory compliance activities by tracking required documentation, reviews, approvals, and closeout actions.
- Participate in site visits, field walkdowns, and data collection activities as needed while complying with all site safety requirements.
- Handle confidential and commercially sensitive information with appropriate discretion.
- Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.
Requirements:
Five years of relevant experience in project management, project controls, engineering, construction, operations support, or business analysis.
Experience supporting capital projects and working with project data related to scope, cost, schedule, progress, risk, change, procurement, staffing, and performance indicators.
Experience preparing reports, dashboards, presentations, meeting materials, and decision-support analysis for leadership and project teams.
Experience maintaining project records such as action logs, decision logs, risk and opportunity registers, change logs, governance calendars, and document control systems.
Experience coordinating with internal stakeholders and external contractors to obtain information, resolve data gaps, and support timely project deliverables.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, validate, analyse, and consolidate project information accurately.
Ability to monitor project performance against approved baselines, identify variances and trends, and communicate findings clearly.
Strong reporting and presentation skills for executive summaries, dashboards, briefing materials, and meeting packages.
Project coordination capability across schedules, cost forecasts, cash-flow profiles, staffing plans, resource forecasts, and governance activities.
Document control and information management skills, including organisation, version control, completeness checks, and timely distribution of records.
Ability to support contract, purchase order, invoice, commitment, and change-order tracking in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
Ability to handle confidential and commercially sensitive information with appropriate discretion.
Ability to work across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, Finance, HSE, contractors, and other stakeholders.
Required Certifications:
Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) (Required), or the ability to qualify for one.
Valid driver licence (Required).
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience supporting executive management during brownfield and/or greenfield projects across front-end planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up, and closeout.
Experience supporting capital projects in LNG, oil and gas, petrochemical, refining, energy, industrial, or similarly regulated facilities.
Familiarity with operating-facility interfaces, Management of Change, stage-gate governance, FERC and PHMSA requirements, or LNG facilities.
Candidates with up to ten years of relevant experience are encouraged to apply.
About Airswift:
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.