About the Role
As a Specialist Project Control/Planning & Cost Engineer, you will play a critical role in the project control function, focusing on project planning and cost control, in alignment with the Project Execution Plan. You will work closely with the Project Control Manager to analyze, schedule, and monitor project execution, ensuring that project completion adheres to the required safety, quality, schedule, and cost parameters.
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Key Accountabilities
Job Specific Accountabilities
Project Control
- Ensure baseline schedule follow-up and monitoring, performance reporting, baseline change control assessment, risk management, and earned value management guidance and tools.
- Advise on the application of effective planning techniques and controls, including earned value, cost and schedule variance, estimates at completion, and critical path analysis.
- Support program integration, governance, formats, plan optimization, and project controls best practices.
- Define Project Controls and Earned Value Management policies, procedures, and standards to ensure successful project delivery.
- Actively develop integrated project schedules that reflect all interface milestones, feedstock availability, and activity durations from multiple contractor schedules, while assessing changes to the integrated schedule.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with program requirements in respect of contractual obligations.
- Oversee contract, procurement, planning, and scheduling activities, ensuring adherence to company requirements.
- Assist the Project Control Manager with contractual and commercial matters to protect company interests.
- Coordinate and attend internal and external project reviews and relevant meetings.
- Adhere to and keep updated with company and project procedures.
- Ensure timely delivery of project deliverables and report progress, actuals, forecasts, and variances through weekly/monthly reporting.
- Ensure consistent application of project controls processes across the project to manage cost and schedule performance effectively.
- Collaborate closely with the Senior Project Manager and other discipline managers to enhance project potential.
- Review Project Baseline Schedule compliance with Contract Schedule requirements and overall Project schedule.
- Instruct reviews and analyses of the Project Schedule, generating reports that highlight slippage, concerns, and forecasts.
- Manage the process of Progress Certification and Invoice Payment under the Contract, ensuring appropriate certification for milestones and completion activities.
Internal Control
- Develop and enhance project control procedures, systems, and tools.
- Work continuously with Project Management Teams to integrate improvement opportunities into standard project control methods.
- Advocate for project control principles to enhance project operations management.
Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Skills
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent from an accredited university, or a minimum of fifteen (15) years of relevant experience in the Oil & Gas or Petrochemical industry.
- At least five (5) years of experience in a similar role on mega Oil & Gas or Petrochemical projects.
- Experience in ADNOC and offshore projects is required.
- Previous PMC experience is necessary.
- Experience in FEED and EPC phases is required.
- Professional certifications such as PMP and CCP are preferred but not mandatory.
Technical Competencies
- Strong skills in project control including planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control.
- Comprehensive understanding of schedule, cost, and risk analysis tools and techniques.
- In-depth technical knowledge of Oil & Gas business operations.
- Proficiency in planning and implementation skills.
- Thorough knowledge of principles, policies, procedures, and internal processes related to project control transactions.
Moving Forward Together
We aim to empower our people to drive sustainable impact through a values-inspired culture that encourages belonging, connection, and innovation. Our focus is on creating a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
We are committed to re-skilling our workforce, leveraging transferable skills to transition into experts in today’s low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.
Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.
