Project Controls Specialist

Job Purpose

The Project Control Specialist assists the Project Manager (PM) in the project controls aspects of a project and is specifically in charge of managing from a project perspective:

▪ Cost control

▪ Planning and scheduling

▪ Progress monitoring and reporting

▪ Document control

▪ Project Management of Change

▪ Project Performance Measurement including Value Destruction

▪ Risk management

Job Description

• Ensures project activities execution within Project Services disciplines are in accordance with Global Business Management System (BMS) Standards and Project Services RACI
• Provide the Project Director / Manager, with comprehensive and reliable data and information about the Project Status (actual, forecast, trends) to drive decisions
• Assist pro-actively the Project Manager on the identification of preventative measures or corrective actions, as much as required to improve the project status and risk mitigation
• Lead cross functional collaboration in problem solving, lean SSI initiatives, Obeyas
• Develop and issue the Project Control Procedures
• Ensuring all reporting package teams have access to accurate information timely
• Reviewing and validating the below deliverables prepared by the team or others :
• Progress Monitoring Structure: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS), Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS); Risk Management Assessment (RMA); Cost Sensitivity Analysis (CSA);
• Master Schedules; Document Progress Status (MDR); Performance Status (KSFs and KPIs); Rome updates
• Work with Cost controllers to ensure Cashflow tracking and forecasting of payment milestones
• CCS Baseline and Re-baselines when required
• Analyzing the actual status and forecast for Cost, Progress and Schedule
• Co-ordinating the internal record of all project change and assisting in the preparation of change Orders and/or Claims in compliance with our standard Management of Change process
• Management of the Project Risk Register and follow up with help chain owners
• Issues progress reports internally and to Client / Partners
• At project close –out, responsible to issue feedback report and lessons learned, for Project feedback but also for discipline data-base
• Support internal and external audits
• Support tenders
• Ensure that project complies with Subsea gate compliances through the life cycle of the project

You are meant for this job if:

• Excellent numeracy & analytical skills
• Strong understanding of the principles of contracts management, cost control, planning and   scheduling and risk management and project management reporting
• Advanced MS Excel skills
• Working knowledge of Primavera and Microsoft Project Scheduling Software
• Experience in project services/project controls/ project management in the offshore/onshore oil & gas industry, or construction industry with exposure to large-scale EPC or EPCM projects
• Professional or degree level qualification or an extensive relevant experience of same in Engineering or Purchasing, Quantity Surveying, Business or Legal discipline, Project Management