Job Duties/ Responsibilities/ Accountabilities:

• Develop project control policies, processes, procedures, and systems for the company and ensure compliance by all.
• Control projects in accordance with established policies, procedures, systems, and requirements approved by the company.
• Conduct cost estimating, cost control, project scheduling and project control activities for all projects carried out by the company.
• Collate price information from within the company, conduct market research externally and develop databases of cost norms required for producing Type 1/2/3 etc cost estimates for the company’s projects as required.
• Conduct cost estimate assurance by reviewing estimates developed by project engineers and benchmarking against databases of cost norms.
• Develop project budgets in coordination with project engineers, project accountant, Contracting and Procurement as well as Human Resources teams.
• Conduct cost risk analyses and reflect in project budgets.
• Provide input to development of project payment milestone schedules, to align with budgets.
• Monitor milestone certifications/payments and all other weekly and monthly project expenditure vs budget. Report performance including expenditure forecasting and variance reporting.
• Develop Level 1/2/3 etc project schedules as required for all projects conducted by the company, in coordination with project engineers, using suitable industry scheduling software.
• Develop schedule baselines. Conduct schedule risk analyses and include outcome in baseline schedules.
• Monitor project activities vs baseline schedules and report progress/performance including schedule forecasting and variance reporting.
• Participate in solving difficult technical issues requiring a broad knowledge related to technical/functional responsibilities.
• Provide value-added expertise in project controls.
• Set goals within broad outlines provided by top management.
• Present and explain proposals, reports, and findings to clients.
• Prepare budgets, support bids/contracts development, and participate in the negotiation of contracts.
• Represent engineering team in product development requirements and creation of schedules and budgets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in any engineering discipline or any other related field
• Membership of Project Management Institute or related professional affiliation would be an advantage
• Membership of an Engineering professional body.

Experience Required

• Minimum of 15 years of experience working in a project controls role conducting project cost estimates, scheduling/planning, and forecasting/reporting with knowledge of fabrication, operations & maintenance, and commissioning