Project Controls Engineer (PCE)

Airswift; Calgary; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Oil & Gas sector is seeking a Project Controls Engineer in Calgary, Alberta. This role involves comprehensive project control functions, including establishing control systems and ensuring compliance with reporting requirements. The position demands significant experience and expertise in cost management and scheduling, working closely with various teams to support project goals.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of project experience required.
• Strong technical mentoring skills needed.
• Prior upstream Oil & Gas experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish cost and schedule control bases.
• Provide project cost and schedule analysis.
• Maintain cost and schedule change control.

Skills

Analytical

Communication

Leadership

Problem Solving

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Primavera Project Planner (P6)

Job description

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

Airswift is seeking a Project Controls Engineer (PCE) to work with one of our O&G clients in Calgary, AB.

MAIN FUNCTIONS

The Cost & Schedule Controls Engineer (PCE) is a specialist in cost and schedule controls. The PCE is responsible for implementing project controls through application of systems and methods for cost control / forecasting, schedule control / forecasting, progress and productivity measurement, and management of change. This includes day-to-day activities for the maintaining, monitoring, controlling, and integrating of project cost and schedule, including establishing the cost and schedule progress and productivity measurement system, verification, and reporting. The PCE strives for timely detection of cost and schedule trends and deviations from the plan, as well as identifies and maintains cost and schedule opportunities and vulnerabilities. The PCE reviews Contractor cost/progress/productivity reports and schedule updates/forecasts for usefulness, logic, level of detail, input sources, timing, and interfaces with other project elements and consistency with the current Cost and Schedule Control Estimate, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and the Project Plan. The PCE also establishes the cost and schedule reporting requirements and frequencies of issue for all the Contractor cost and schedule deliverables. The PCE will also participate in assessment of cost and schedule estimates (verification of project cost & schedule bases), support Gate and Funding milestones, and provide timely and accurate actuals/data and deliverables in support of benchmarking and estimate tool building/maintenance.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Primary Responsibilities
• Lead Client project team and/or Contractor to establish cost and schedule control bases, progress and productivity measurement system(s), and project-specific reporting
• Provide project cost and schedule analysis, progress measurement, change management, reporting, forecasting and budgeting expertise to Project Team(s) and implement same on multiple projects
• Prepares cost and schedule forecasts, progress/status reports, and monthly/quarterly stewardship deliverables on multiple projects in line with Project Control Plans and Stewardship process(es)
• Responsible for maintaining cost and schedule change control
• Detects/identifies cost and schedule opportunities, vulnerabilities, trends, deviations, underruns and overruns, and can make recommendations for corrective actions and recovery plans
• Maintains close liaison with members of the project team(s), particularly Client’s project manager(s)
• Maintains regular contact with the Cost and Schedule Functional organization
• Work closely with cost estimators, planners and schedulers, and Client’s accounting staff
• Work closely with Client’s project manager and team leads for regulated and non-regulated accounting reporting requirements

Other Responsibilities

• Stewards the Contractor's project control organization with respect to cost and schedule control and progress measurement
• Advises the Contractor's organization with respect to adequacy of project control tools and reporting
• Assist Project Team in developing/reviewing cost and schedule corrective actions and recovery plans (including those of Contractors), and verifies needed actions/plans are implemented
• Reviews project changes to evaluate cost and schedule impact; responsible for quantifying and incorporating the effect and impact of approved changes in the cost and schedule stewardship and reporting
• Reviews cost and schedule bases of Contractor change proposals
• Reviews and endorses changes with regards to cost and schedule (and progress) impact
• Supports Project Team with ongoing project cost and schedule progress measurement and analysis, reporting, and forecasting activities
• Ensure that Contractor cost and schedule control practices and progress measurement systems comply with Project Coordination Procedures
• Responsible for ensuring that proper and effective project control measures are executed by Contractors; 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
• Ensure integration of subcontractors’ schedules and progress measurement system
• Monitor Contractor performance vs. approved cost budgets and schedule baselines to assist Project Team(s) in identification of issues and development / implementation of corrective actions or recovery plans
• Analyze cost and schedule progress, schedule trends, and develop forecasts to support management decision making
• Supports preparation for Gates Reviews, Advance Commitment, Full Funding or Supplement activities
• Participate in contract bid evaluations (as required for cost and schedule control system/tool evaluation)
• Ensure familiarity of Project Team with Contractor payment terms and contract coordination procedures applicable to their scope
• Interface with Controllers regarding AFEs/budgets and invoices and development of Work-In-Place
• Participate in developing Contract Price Budgets and Contract Control Schedules and Milestones
• Respond to ad hoc requests from Project Management Team (PMT) related to Controls/Reporting
• Drives and promotes capital efficiency on projects being stewarded by the department
• Provide timely and accurate data and deliverables in support of benchmarking and tool building
• Supports preparation of Project Close-outs
• Participates in gathering and recording of Lessons Learned for the Project that relate to cost and schedule control and progress areas

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering within discipline or equivalent professional experience
• 15+ years’ of experience working on projects
• Previous upstream (mining and in-situ) experience preferred
• Strong technical mentoring skills for other Project Controls Engineers
• Ability to work well with many team members distributed across different sites/time zones
• May assist with projects across Canada, potential for wide-variety of projects big and small, though focus would be on Upstream projects in Alberta
• Strong influencing, consulting, mentoring, analytical, and computing skills
• Advanced level proficiency in Project Controls, and ideally Cost Estimating and Project Planning as well
• Basic to strong competency in Primavera Project Planner (P6)
• Strong Influencing, consulting, mentoring, analytical, and computing skills
• Skills to negotiate and broker successful solutions between Internal Coordination parties above
• Adaptability to changing priorities
• Ability to multitask and respond quickly to urgent analysis requests
• Strong/excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to organize, plan, control, coordinate, and effectively manage cross-functional activities

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management

• Industries

  Oil and Gas

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Airswift by 2x

Get notified about new Project Control Engineer jobs in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Project Control Specialist- Relocate to Saudi Arabia

Transmission Planning and Interconnection Study Engineer

Calgary, Alberta, Canada $120,000.00-$120,000.00 5 days ago

Electrical Engineer - Kiewit Power Engineering

Transmission Planning and Interconnection Study Engineer

Junior Transmission Planning and Interconnection Study Engineer

Mid/ Sr. Transmission Planning and Studies Engineer

We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.