Lead Cost Control Engineer
Worley
- Cairo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensuring HSSEQ goals, objectives and targets are met through personal leadership and involvement.
- Safe delivery and handover of the Project to the Owner, sustainably, safely, on time, within budget, ensuring that a quality product is produced that represents ‘best value’ for the Owner and their Stakeholders.
- To provide Cost and Estimating management, leadership and support for all Project activities.
- Oversee Budget, Cost, Estimating, Progress Measurement and Forecasting activities of the EPC Contractor and ensure these are aligned to the overall Project objectives.
- Support the Project Controls Manager and provide functional support to the Project PMC and Owner’s teams.
- Champion the Project Safety culture, behaviors and engagement activities.
- Reports to PMC Project Controls Manager and works under his direction.
- Reviews, monitors and controls Project costs. Verify EPC Contractor requests for payments, including the required supporting documents and achievement of milestone events and certifying their entitlements for payments accordingly.
- Ensure that adequate information is supplied to verify progress claims against milestones and invoices submitted including calling for further information to substantiate progress claims where necessary, prior to payment by the Owner.
- Review EPC Contractor’s Invoices, Progress Measurement and Forecasts and provide assessments to Project senior management.
- Review Project Business Plans and Execution strategies to provide input to strategic priorities, Operating Budgets and cost forecasts.
- Review EPC Contractor’s nominated Subcontractor’s un-priced bid submissions for Progress Measurement and Reporting requirements.
- Ensure that PMC procedures for Estimating, Progress Measurement and Forecasting are approved and implemented.
- Provide functional input to the review and approval of EPC Contractor’s invoices and Change Order proposals.
- Participate in Project risk reviews, constructability reviews and value engineering workshops.
- Provide functional input to PMC weekly/monthly progress reports and presentations to the Owner and provide exception reports related to the overall Project Cost.
- Review EPC Contract close-out reports and performance evaluation reports and provide functional input to Project senior management.
- Review PMC systems and procedures to provide functional input and support continuous improvement.
- Establish and implement Project statistical database for benchmarking purposes.
- Review Project short term and medium-term constraints and concerns to provide mitigation plans and corrective actions.
- Avoid or minimize the variations from EPC Contractor by taking proactive and preventive actions.
- Perform trend analysis on both schedule and cost for early identification of potential deviations and advise Owner of their implications.
- Evaluate, EPC Contractor change orders/claims request for any Engineering, equipment or materials and
- Construction extras as well as schedule extensions, with recommendation to approve, modify or reject.
- Prepare Project cost reports to Owner highlighting current expenditure, commitments and forecast payments to the EPC Contractor.
- Participate in the preparation of Project progress reports addressing cost and schedule trends, productivity and actions taken.
- Participate in the close-out of the early work phase and the EPC Contract.
- Assist in the administration of financial agreements, drawdown forecasts of loan funds, cash flow of all funds and other financial aspects.
- Monitor cash flow in multi-currencies.
- Supervise internal and external audits.
- Monitor budgets.
- Experienced in Oil & Gas / Petrochemical industry.
- Must have relevant years’ experience in Cost Control
- Engineering qualification(s) or equivalent experience in engineering / construction preferable.
- Proven computer literacy skills with experience in cost and project control computer applications
- Proven ability to communicate effectively with others; (verbally, in written communications and in presentations / meetings).
- Ability to effectively and efficiently plan / prioritize all areas of responsibility such as: Budgets; Time management; Resources – training and succession planning.
- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of industry standard practices in cost control activities.
- Experience in audit activities