Lead Planning & Cost Control Engineer - Offshore

Worley; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 450,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Worley in Abu Dhabi seeks a Lead Planning & Cost Control Engineer to drive project controls across schedules, cost, and earned value for major Oil & Gas projects. You will lead a team and work closely with the Project Control Manager to ensure optimization of plans and governance across multiple interfaces.

The role requires 15+ years in oil & gas, with 5+ years in GCC, ADNOC experience preferred. Strong understanding of PV, EVM, and risk analysis is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline from an accredited university.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in Oil & Gas or Petrochemical industries.
• Minimum 5 years in GCC region preferred.
• 5+ years in a similar role on major Oil & Gas or Petrochemical projects with team leadership.
• ADNOC & Offshore project experience preferred.
• 15+ years of project experience in oil & gas with knowledge of project plans, schedules and cost control.
• Project control requires planning, scheduling, monitoring and cost control.
• Proficiency with schedule, cost and risk analysis tools.
• Technical understanding of Oil & Gas business.
• Planning and implementation skills with internal process knowledge for project control.

Responsibilities

• Lead baseline schedule follow-up, monitoring, and performance reporting.
• Provide guidance on earned value, cost and schedule variance, and estimations at completion.
• Support program integration, governance, formats, plan optimization, and project controls best practices.
• Define Project Controls policies, procedures and standards.
• Develop integrated project schedules with interface milestones and activity durations.
• Monitor compliance with contractual obligations and company requirements.
• Coordinate and attend internal/external project reviews and meetings.
• Generate weekly/monthly reports on progress, actuals, forecast, and variances.
• Control progress certification and invoice payment under contract.

Skills

Planning

Scheduling

Cost control

Earned value management

Risk management

Project governance

Reporting

Contract management

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor degree in engineering

Job description

Job Purpose

Lead Planning & Cost Control Engineer. Perform the project control function including project planning, cost control for the Project as per Project Execution Plan, working closely with the Project Control Manager.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure baseline schedule follow-up and monitoring, performance reporting, baseline change control assessment, risk management, earned value management guidance and tools.
• Advice and consult on application of effective planning techniques and controls (earned value, cost and schedule variance, estimates at completion, critical path analysis).
• Support program integration, governance, formats, plan optimization, and project controls best practices.
• Support and advise on definition of Project Controls and Earned Value Management policies, procedures and standards required to deliver projects.
• Involve actively in development of integrated project schedule reflecting all interface milestones, availability and need dates of feedstock, offsite and utilities, and activity durations from multiple contractors’ schedules, assessing changes.
• Monitor and control program compliance regarding contractual obligations.
• Ensure contract, procurement, planning and scheduling activities within the project are performed as per company requirements.
• Support PCM on all contractual and commercial issues to maintain company interests.
• Coordinate and attend internal/external project reviews and other meetings as necessary.
• Keep up to date with and adhere to company and project-related procedures.
• Ensure deliverables are delivered and flagged to the PCM.
• Generate weekly/monthly reports aligned with project and company reporting calendar, providing details on progress, actuals, forecast, and explanations of variances.
• Ensure project controls processes are consistently applied across the project.
• Manage governance to ensure robust cost and schedule performance for agreed Scope of Work across integrated programs managed across multiple parties.
• Work closely with Senior Project Manager and other discipline managers to maximize project potential.
• Manage and guide review of Project Baseline Schedule for compliance with Contract Schedule requirements and overall Project schedule.
• Instruct reviews/analyses of Project Schedule and generate special reports highlighting slippage, concerns, and forecasts.
• Manage and guide Progress Certification and Invoice Payment under the contract.
• Ensure appropriate certificates are generated and maintained for the Project denoting approval of milestones and completion activities.
• Develop and improve project control procedures, systems, and tools; continuously work with Project Management Teams to seek improvement opportunities and incorporate them into standard project controls.
• Be an active advocate of project controls principles for better management of project operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent from an accredited university, with a minimum of fifteen (15+) years of relevant experience in the Oil & Gas or Petrochemical industry, including a minimum of five (5) years (preferred) in the GCC region.
• At least five (5) years of experience in similar position on major Oil & Gas or Petrochemical projects, managing a team of Specialists, Senior Engineers, and Engineers.
• ADNOC & Offshore project experience is preferred.
• 15+ years of project experience, working in the oil & gas industry with previous knowledge of preparing and implementing project plans, schedules and cost control.
• Project control skills in planning, scheduling, monitoring and cost control.
• Full understanding of schedule, cost and risk analysis tools and techniques.
• Technical understanding and proficient knowledge related to Oil & Gas business.
• Planning and implementation skills; detailed knowledge of principles, policies, procedures, and internal processes pertaining to project control.