Senior Project Controls Engineer

Overview

Role Overview

Cost Management & Budget Control

• Budget Maintenance: Monitor and maintain project budgets, ensuring that all financial activities align with project goals, constraints, and approved baselines.
• Monthly Cost Reporting: Prepare and analyze monthly cost reports, incorporating data from supervision consultants and contractors. Ensure reports are accurate, comprehensive, and submitted in a timely manner.
• Forecast Cashflows: Develop and prepare accurate forecast cashflows from construction programmes to support project financial planning and management.
• Cost Control: Implement cost control measures to ensure projects stay within budget. Identify and address variances between actual and budgeted costs and recommend corrective actions.
• Budget Overrun Management: Identify potential budget overruns early and liaise with clients to obtain budget uplift approvals when necessary.
• Data Collection and Analysis: Collect and analyze cost data from various sources, ensuring accuracy and reliability. Use this data to inform decision-making and project planning.
• Financial Reporting: Provide detailed financial reports to senior management and other stakeholders, highlighting key financial metrics and project performance.
• Compliance and Standards: Ensure all financial activities comply with company policies, industry standards, and regulatory requirements.

Planning, Scheduling & Project Controls

• Baseline Programme Development: Support the development, review, and integration of baseline schedules for design and construction using Primavera P6, ensuring alignment with project scope, budgets, and milestones.
• Schedule Monitoring: Track progress against the approved baseline schedule, identify variances, and prepare periodic schedule performance reports.
• Progress Measurement: Coordinate with project teams, supervision consultants, and contractors to collect progress data, validate reported progress, and update the project schedule accordingly.
• Delay & Impact Analysis: Assist in the identification and analysis of schedule delays, risks, and opportunities, and contribute to the preparation of time impact analyses and mitigation plans.
• Reporting & Dashboards: Develop and maintain project controls dashboards and reports for internal and external stakeholders, summarizing cost, schedule, risk, and forecast status.

What Required Skills You'Ll Bring

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in cost engineering and project controls, preferably within the engineering or infrastructure sector.
• Technical Skills:
• + Proficiency in cost management software and tools.
• + Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6 for planning and scheduling.
• + Advanced MS Excel skills (e.g., complex formulas, pivot tables, dashboards).
• + Familiarity with earned value management concepts and project controls methodologies is an advantage.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex financial and schedule data and translate it into actionable insights.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present cost and schedule information clearly to non-financial and non-technical stakeholders.
• Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy and attention to detail in all aspects of work.
• Team Player: Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and build strong working relationships with colleagues, clients, and contractors.
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