Lead Project Controller

SummaryIn 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

Roles and Responsibilities:

Overview

Ensure compliance to Global Standards for planning and cost control

Lead Project Controls team in large projects including both Schedule and Cost Control functions

Manage project portfolio and identify and mitigate transactional and systemic risks to cost and schedule

Manage workload of team to ensure there is requisite resources and skills available to meet project needs

Collaborate and align with other local function leaders

Overall supervision of team

Scheduling

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

Lead the team of Project Cost Control analysts on larger projects

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.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in engineering (with financial training preferably)

Proficiency in English is mandatory and French speaking skill will be a plus

Strong working experience for High Voltage Substation Projects and/or EPC Projects environment, as Lead Project Planner and/or Lead Cost Controller

Proficiency in using Primavera P6

Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects

Experience in team management responsibility

Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.

Strong cost management, forecasting and scheduling

Desired Characteristics

Able to drive project teams to control the project.

Analytical skills to use data to forecast outcomes.

Clear communicator with strong communication and influencing skills.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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