Project Controls Manager

TechnipFMC; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Scotland seeks a Project Control Manager to assist in overall project control and management. Key responsibilities include cost control, planning, progress monitoring, and risk management. The successful candidate will possess a professional or degree-level qualification in Engineering or a related field, with strong numerical skills and familiarity with contract management and project scheduling software. Exposure to large-scale projects in the offshore/onshore oil and gas industry is essential. This role is based in Aberdeen City.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification or extensive relevant experience required.
• Experience in offshore/onshore oil & gas or construction industry.
• Exposure to large-scale EPC or EPCM projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Project Manager in overall project control.
• Deliver comprehensive project status data.
• Manage project change and risks.

Skills

Numeracy and analytical skills

Understanding of contracts management

Cost control

Planning and scheduling

Risk management

MS Excel

Education

Professional or degree in Engineering, Purchasing, Quantity Surveying, Business or Legal discipline

Tools

Primavera

Microsoft Project

Job description

Job Purpose

The Project Control Manager (PCM) assists the Project Manager (PM) in the overall control of the project and is specifically in charge of managing from a project perspective:

▪ Cost control

▪ Planning and scheduling

▪ Progress monitoring and reporting

▪ Document control

▪ Coordinating and Monitoring all Project Change

▪ Project Performance Measurement including Value Destruction

▪ Risk management

Job Description

• Highest delivery possible of responsibilities / accountabilities, both internal and external, within a pressurised environment and stringent deadlines
• Ensures project activities execution within Project Control disciplines, in accordance with Business Management System (BMS)
• Provide the Project Director / Manager, with comprehensive and reliable data and information about the Project Status (actual, forecast, trends)
• 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 mitigate the risks
• Ensure continuously that the relevant motivation is effective among the Project Management Team (PMT) and cascaded down through the whole team
• Develop and issue the Project Control Procedures
• Ensuring all reporting disciplines are in receipt of accurate / timely data
• Tracking all project change
• Reviewing and validating the below documents prepared by the team or others :

Progress Monitoring Structure: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS), Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS)

Master Schedules; Document Progress Status (MDR); Performance Status (KPI’s)

• 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
• Management of the Project Risk Register
• Issues 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

You are meant for this job if:

Professional or degree level qualification or an extensive relevant experience of same in Engineering or Purchasing, Quantity Surveying, Business or Legal discipline

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 in the offshore/onshore oil & gas industry, or construction industry with exposure to large-scale EPC or EPCM projects

Skills