Lead Project Controls Engineer

GE Vernova; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Project Controls Specialist to join their dynamic team in Jeddah. This role offers the chance to work on large-scale turnkey projects, ensuring compliance with global standards in scheduling and cost management. You will collaborate with diverse teams, driving project success through rigorous planning and risk management. If you are passionate about making a significant impact in the energy sector and possess the expertise in project controls, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and teamwork.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of planning large turnkey projects.
• Experience in cost controlling on complex projects.
• Lead planner on multiple turnkey projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with global standards for project planning.
• Build and maintain integrated project schedules.
• Provide cost analytics and manage project budgets.

Skills

Project Scheduling

Cost Control

Risk Management

Budgeting

Forensic Analysis

Education

Engineering Degree

Financial Training

Tools

Project Management Software

Cost Management Tools

Job description

Job Description Summary

In Project Controls, our goal is to ensure the right rigor around schedule and cost management processes to deliver projects on-time and within budget. With focus and rigor around tools, processes, operating rhythm, and people, here you shall have the opportunity to learn, contribute and excel in one of the best Project controls functions in the industry. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.

Job Description

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Ensure compliance to Global Standards for planning
• Builds tender integrated schedules using the established tools and processes and challenges the team to ensure schedule risk is managed with a balance of competitive offering aligned to historical performance
• Builds and maintain the single project schedule representing the entire project by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project
• Ensure proper linkages in schedule to show all interdependencies between contributing parties
• Ensure functional owners sign off on commitments and are made accountable for their date
• Works collaboratively with other overall project planning team to ensure optimal alignment of schedule with overall schedule
• Delivers a high-quality schedule aligned with global standards to ensure project is accurately represented
• Maintains schedule thru the entire project obtaining inputs from all project contributors
• Drives regular operating rhythm with project team to review schedule status and operating rhythm
• Challenges functional owners on forecast completion dates to ensure dates are realistic
• Provides schedule analysis to forecast schedule risk and opportunities using available tools and experience
• Provides look ahead, backlog and future late reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities
• Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility
• Provides strategies to mitigate risks
• Drives functional owners to mitigate risks and follows up with functional owners on risk mitigation actions
• Collaborate with 3rd parties on project schedules and cost
• Provides and communicate regular status reporting
  
  

Cost Controlling

• Ensure the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
• Reviews project schedule and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Reviews project scope evolution to identify cost risk and opportunities
• Reviews functional execution and events to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Provides cost analytics using project information and analysing cost and productivity trends
• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
• Own and drive the Budget Deviation Process with tools
• Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities
• Develops cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where needed
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
• Communicates cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status and actions
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Provide time based cost forecasts to support revenue recognition
• Analyze all the risks and opportunities communicate clearly priorities and potential impacts
• Support change order analysis
• Support claim preparations
• Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting
• Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
• Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost
• Ensure Alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)
  
  

Quality & Lean

• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function
• Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner
• Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements
  
  

EHS

• Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions
• Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions
• Ensure safety work instructions are complied
• Participate in the resolution of safety issues.
• Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed
  
  

Performance Measurement

• Schedule quality
• Cost forecasting quality
• Schedule forecast quality
• Cost and schedule performance of project
• Timeliness of reporting
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

Educational Requirements

Degree qualified in engineering (with financial training)

Desired Knowledge & Experience

5+ years planning large turnkey projects

2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects

Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects

Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects

Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects

KSA National preferred

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No