Contract Advisor – Milan

Dovre Solutions; Lombardia; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Dovre Solutions is seeking an experienced planning-focused professional to support FEED, EPC, and Construction phases in the oil and gas sector. You will ensure project scope, cost, and schedule alignment while coordinating with multiple teams.

Responsibilities include evaluating opportunities, shaping economic inputs, and guiding decision-ready analyses to maximize value across the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering is required.
• 10–15 years of Oil & Gas experience with refinery/petrochemical projects preferred.
• Good command of English (written and spoken).
• Proficiency with Excel/Access for data management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Identify, screen, and prioritize strategic opportunities aligned with strategy and value maximization.
• Develop business cases with market outlook, economics, risks, and value drivers.
• Manage and QA economic models; coordinate with Execution, Commercial and GHG teams.
• Lead RFIs/RFPs/NDAs and third-party proposals to reflect commercial terms in models.
• Oversee feasibility studies and provide recommendations on feedstock and product optimization.

Skills

Project planning

Stakeholder coordination

English proficiency

Excel/Access

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Excel/Access

Job description

The role will help strengthen project value, support investment decisions, and progress business opportunities from early concept through evaluation, governance, and implementation readiness.

• Identify, screen, and prioritize strategic business opportunities aligned with corporate strategy, fuels and chemicals growth priorities, shareholder objectives, and project value maximization.
• Develop business cases aligned with the fuels and chemicals strategy, ensuring market outlook, strategic fit, commercial structure, economics, key assumptions, risks, sensitivities, and value drivers are clearly defined.
• Manage and provide quality assurance for the LP model and economic model, coordinating with Project Execution on facilities scope and capital costs, Commercial on feedstock and product pricing impacts, and GHG Abatement on GHG-related cost inputs.
• Lead the preparation, coordination, and evaluation of RFIs, RFPs, NDAs, and third-party commercial proposals, ensuring commercial terms, pricing mechanisms, volumes, obligations, risks, and assumptions are reflected in the economic model.
• Evaluate partnership models, feedstock options, product outlets, offtake structures, pricing mechanisms, incentives, commercial agreements, and third-party arrangements to support decision-ready recommendations.
• Oversee fuels and chemicals optimization studies for value-add and capital efficiency opportunities, providing results-based recommendations on feed type and volumes, product type and volumes, facilities scope, sizing, and implementation priorities.
• Develop and assess fuels and chemicals market scenarios market-information suppliers, and shareholder teams to test project resilience and enhance venture value.
• Define Heads of Agreement requirements at Gate 2 and Binding Agreement requirements at Gate 3, including quantities, pricing and discounts, durations, mechanisms, sustainability policy mechanisms, and other key commercial terms supporting the selected scope.
• Develop the operating cost and fixed cost basis for incorporation into the economic model, applying best practice and guidance from relevant shareholder finance teams.
• Determine feedstock availability, including MFSC feeds, product optimization opportunities, working capital requirements, and potential synergy opportunities within the Yanbu area.
• Assess fuels and chemicals competitiveness of proposed solutions using appropriate economic metrics, including IRR, NPV, feed cost per tonne, capital payback, break-even analysis, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis.
• Support the gating process by providing economic model inputs, commercial assumptions, sensitivities, risks, mitigation plans, documentation, and recommendations at the various gates required by shareholders.
• Coordinate with technical, commercial, finance, legal, planning, supply chain, operations, engineering, licensors, consultants, suppliers, offtakers, and partners to consolidate inputs, resolve key issues, and maintain alignment in the economic model.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure selected licensor technology, facilities scope, capital efficiency items, and project configuration align with business objectives, shareholder expectations, and value maximization requirements.
• Track actions, milestones, dependencies, risks, value delivery, and post-decision commitments to ensure timely progress of business development initiatives and implementation readiness.

Job Purpose
Responsible for executing planning activities throughout the assigned scope. Provide overall planning and organization of the project during FEED, EPC and Construction Phases. Responsible for the consistency, project scope, quality and compliance to requirements throughout the project life cycle.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Support the Project Manager/Senior Project Engineer to ensure that the objectives are met and Project Goals are set supporting those.
• Ensure project scope, schedule and cost are clearly defined, closely coordinated, consistently monitored and controlled throughout the project cycle. Report any deviation and propose corrective action, to ensure the project goals for safety, schedule, cost, and quality are met.
• Facilitate development of the Project Execution Plan ensuring high quality, all Project Phases up to and including Project Closure are considered and is aligned with the Program Execution Plan.
• Set priorities for work execution and handle them one at a time looking at the “big picture”.
• Implement project Standard and Procedures, ensuring Contractor and EPC compliance.
• Recommend improvements, ideas to improve work processes, policies, procedures, and design at every opportunity that will result in either program schedule improvement or cost saving.
• Support Project Manager in the coordination of Team Building and Team Integration related activities. Facilitate new team members integration process.
• Facilitate team meetings and interactions promoting excellent communication with all team members and FEED/EPC Contractor.
• Follow-up of technical queries, letters, change notices, transmittals.
• Ensure compliance of Design Review Meetings (30%,60%,90%) with Company Standards and closure of each item initiated by the different department of the Company.
• Facilitate Risk Management Identification Process and Support Project Manager to implement mitigation plans.
• As required by the Project Manager, act as a his/her representative as requested for specific activities as:
• Single focal point for all correspondence between Owner and Contractor.
• Manage the Scope Change Management Process internally and externally with involved contractors, administering and coordination resolutions.
• Interpret EPC Contractor work processes and ensure the owner teams understand where they fit in.
• During FEED up to Order Novation, coordinate Procurement activities related with Long Lead and/or Critical Equipment.
• Drive Interface Management Coordination Process and support resolution of critical conflicts.
• Support alignment with HSE and manufacturing strategy and deliverables.
• Support compliance with safety principles applicable to the project.
• Support implementation of constructability concepts.
• Drive Project Close out including transfer of project documentation into the operating asset and documenting key project learning experiences in the Project Closure Report.
  

Educational & Technical Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering discipline
• 10 – 15 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry, Refinery and petrochemical projects
• Good working knowledge of Aramco standards and procedures and International standards
• Good knowledge of English, both written and verbal
• Good knowledge of database management through Excel/Access