Project Controls Lead Vacancy at Brunel Energy

Brunel Energy provides specialist personnel to the international oil & gas, petrochemical, power generation and construction industries. Our clients are predominantly major operating companies and international engineering or construction companies.

Location: Lagos

Job description

Reports To:
- Project Supervisor: Planning & Controls Manager
- EMDC Functional Supervisor: Cost & Schedule Engineering Manager

Positions Supervised:
- Directly on the Project: Home Office Cost Engineer and Home Office Planning Engineer
- Functional responsibility: All Cost and Planning Engineers on the project

Job function:
The Home Office Project Controls Lead (CL) provides overall project cost and schedule direction through application of systems and methods for project change management, estimate development, cost control, progress measurement, and schedule development and schedule control.

Responsibilities and duties:

1. Provide overall project cost and schedule, progress measurement, and change management leadership and expertise.
· Communicating priorities for new and ongoing estimating, planning and cost control activities
· Overview of overall cost/planning products and procedures
· Monthly Cost & Schedule Stewardship presentations
· Visits to Sub-project Controls teams to ensure consist application of tools, procedures, forecasts
· Consortium / Affiliate / Joint Venture presentations
· Development of Management of Change Plan
· Development of Project Controls Plan
· Consultant agency agreements
· Controls Personnel hiring/evaluations
· Interfaces with other Project Services related Functions such as Contract Management, Controllers and Document Control
· Mentor and coach all cost and planning engineers on the project


2. Supporting PMT and Cost Stewards with ongoing project cost and schedule analysis, reporting, forecasting, budgeting and Change Management.
· Develop and document Control Estimates, Schedules and Budgets (annual and multi-year), and ensuring that these products reflect the approved project design/execution scope

· Analyze cost and schedule trends, develop and review cost and schedule forecasts

· Prepare monthly cost reports (budgets, forecasts, expenditures, commitments)

· Maintain ongoing cost vulnerability/cost reduction opportunities database

· Review Controller's monthly Stewardship Report for actual invoice bookings

· Develop monthly estimates of Work-In-Place (WIP) for EM and 3rd-party costs

· Administers the project change control process for their Stewardship area

· Develop monthly expenditure and commitment forecasts

· Monitor and report on cost and schedule implications of changes

· Participate in contract commercial bid evaluations (as required)

· Participate in developing Contract Price Budgets and Contract Control Schedules and Milestones

· Support preparation of Advance Commitment or Full Funding estimates and budgets

· Interface with Controllers regarding AFEs/budgets and invoices

· Respond to ad hoc requests from PMT related to Controls/Reporting





3. Monitoring and appraising the performance of Contractors in the areas of cost control, progress measurement and schedule control.

· Examine and evaluate the Contractor’s cost and schedule control organization, plans, performance and procedures

· Review and, where appropriate, endorse schedule, progress and cost baselines and forecast prepared by contractors

· Analyze cost, schedule and progress trends developed by contractor

· Review and endorse progress measures reported by the contractor

· Review cost and schedule bases of contractor's Change Proposals - review and endorse Change Orders - monitor, analyze and report contractor invoices

· Assist site management in developing/reviewing cost and schedule corrective actions and recovery plans, and making sure needed actions/plans are implemented.


4. Manage the Cost and Schedule organization including the Contractor sites and serve as the central link from the Project to the EMDC Functional Organization.

· Maintain close liaison with other members of the Cost and Schedule organization on the Project and EMDC Function

· Provide feedback to Home Office and Sub-project controls, cost and planning engineers

· Ensure Function endorsement of Cost Estimates and Project Schedule

Job requirements

· Thorough and extensive knowledge of:
- Project controls principles, theories, and concepts
- ExxonMobil practices, processes, and expectations with respect to project controls
· Bachelors of Science Degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Business Administration with relevant experience.
· 10+ years of project controls experience with a relatively uniform mix of cost and schedule control achievements
· Upstream / Pipeline / Offshore Engineering, Procurement, and Construction experience
· willing to work overseas in a team environment
· Willing to relocate to required project site

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