Project Controls Engineer (Specialist)

Nsbomega; Calgary; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Oil & Gas sector is seeking a Controls Engineer in Calgary, AB. The successful candidate will implement project controls strategies, manage cost and schedule forecasting, and support various project deliverables. Expected involvement includes extensive project oversight with a focus on upstream activities across Alberta.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience with specific project controls expertise.
• Strong influencing and consulting capabilities.
• Experience with upstream projects preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead project team in cost and schedule management for multiple projects.
• Prepare cost and schedule forecasts, and analyze impacts of changes.
• Ensure compliance with project control measures and reporting.

Skills

Technical mentoring skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Primavera Project Planner (P6)

Job description

NSB Omega is searching for a Controls Engineer for our MAJOR Oil & Gas Client in Calgary, AB.

Assignment Description

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.

Duration
1 Year (With Possibility of Extension)