Project Controls Lead

Overview:

Project Controls Lead (PCL) implements overall project controls direction through application of systems and methods for estimate development, cost control, progress measurement, schedule development / control and management of change.

Responsibilities:

- Provide timely and accurate data and deliverables in support of benchmarking and tool building.

- Provide overall project cost, schedule, progress measurement, and change management leadership and expertise.

- Provide support to Project Team and Stewards with cost and schedule analysis, reporting, forecasting and budgeting.

- Development of Project Controls Plan and Management of Change (MOC) Plan

- Ensure that the Stewardship process is established and implemented, leading to monthly cost and schedule stewardship reviews.

- Coordinates and communicates priorities for new and ongoing estimating, planning and cost control activities.

- Leads preparation and maintenance of the Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), the Original Control Budget (OCB), Current Control Budget (CCB) and Project Master Schedule, and Budget (Planning & Budgeting (P&B) ), and the overall cost and progress control system.

- Coordinate the collecting, analyzing, and reporting of project cost and schedule control information, to ensure overall project status is assessed and potential problem areas identified; prepares overall cost and schedule forecasts.

- Administer and facilitates the Management of Change process.

- Facilitate Capital Efficiency / Opportunities and Vulnerabilities process.

- Interface with Controllers regarding AFEs/budgets and invoices and development of Work-In-Place.

- Participate in bid evaluation process (as required).

- Participate in developing Contract Price Budgets and Contract Control Schedules and Milestones.

- Ensure familiarity of Project Controls team with Contractor payment terms and contract coordination procedures applicable to their scope.

- Leads preparation for Gates Reviews, Advance Commitment, Full Funding or Supplement activities.

- Coordinates development of cost and schedule estimates in preparation of Gate and Check Point/Advance Commitment reviews.

- Coordinate development of Estimate Confidence Packages and Estimate Development Plans.

- Respond to ad hoc requests from Project Management Team (PMT) related to Controls/Reporting.

- Consortium / Affiliate / Joint Venture presentations

- Supports preparation of Close-out Reporting / CA$HD Input

- Perform quality assurance at the project level by monitoring and appraising the performance of Contractors in the areas of cost control, progress measurement and schedule control.

- Responsible for ensuring that proper and effective project control measures are executed by the Contractor; including the Contractor’s cost and schedule control organization, plans and procedures.

- Review and, where appropriate, endorse schedule, progress and cost baselines and forecast prepared by contractors.

- Review progress measures reported by the Contractor.

- Review cost and schedule bases of Contractor's Change Proposals / Orders; including progress trends developed by Contractor.

- Assist site management in developing/reviewing cost and schedule corrective actions and recovery plans, and making sure needed actions/plans are implemented.

- Manage the Cost and Schedule organization including the Contractor sites and serve as the central link from the Project to the organization.

- Maintain close liaison with other members of the organization on the Project and the function.

- Coordinates development of Project Controls Implementation Plan tailored to the specific project.

- Provide feedback and mentor to project controls engineers and planners in the project.

- Ensure Functional alignment for support and approval of key deliverables (i.e. Estimate Confidence Package, Estimate Development Plan, etc.).

- Drives and promotes capital efficiency on projects being stewarded by the department.

Qualifications:

- A bachelor’s degree (or higher) in engineering is required.

- 5 to 15 years of relevant professional experience is required. Candidates with less than 5 or more than 15 years of experience will not be considered.

- Prior experience working specifically as an Oil and Gas Project Controls Engineer is required.

- Must have managed multiple concurrent projects rather than a single large-scale project. Demonstrated ability to handle diverse project portfolios is preferred.

- Willing to work overseas in a team environment.

- Willing to relocate to required project site

- Strong Influencing, Consulting, Mentoring, Analytical, and Computing skills.

- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

- Ability to multitask and respond quickly to urgent analysis requests.

- Must be able to meet all conditional job offer requirements including background, drug test, MVR, agility and fit for duty.

- Understanding of environmental and safe work practices.