Project Controls Engineer

• Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Overall

• Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimate
• Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools
• Ensures compliance to the Global Standard process for Project Controls
• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
• Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project
• Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team
• Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks
• Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
• Checks 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
• Communicates schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
• Provides internal and external project reporting of project status
• Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status
• Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate
• Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books
• Support project close out and claims
• Provide support to tenders
• Oversee the planning function on the project
• Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.
• Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
• Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost
• Ensure alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)
• Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.

Quality & Lean

• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function
• Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner
• Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvement

EHS

• Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions

• Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions

• Ensure safety work instructions are complied

• Participate in the resolution of safety issues.

• Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed

Performance Measurement

• Schedule quality
• Cost forecasting quality
• Schedule forecast quality
• Cost and schedule performance of project
• Timeliness of reporting

Qualifications & Experience

Educational Requirements

• Degree qualified either in finance or may have engineering degree (with financial training)

Desired Knowledge & Experience

• 4+ years planning large turnkey projects
• 2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects
• Deep domain knowledge of planning and use of Primavera
• Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey project
• Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects

Key Skills:

• Analytical skills to use data to forecast outcomes

• Clear communicator with strong communication and influencing skill

• Primavera skill

• Cost estimating and forecasting

• Scheduling