Manager, Projects Planning & Cost

Job Purpose

Lead and manage the project planning, scheduling, cost estimating & budgeting, and provide input for developing execution strategies & plans to support the project teams in the project management for timely completion within approved budgets and in line with project objectives.

• Manage the planning, scheduling, cost control, value assurance and scope management activities of projects to maintain projects excellence.
• Ensure the provision of inputs for the development of execution strategies for projects to support in effective project management.
• Review / challenge schedule and cost details submitted by Contractors & Consultants with regard to project changes to ensure minimum impact to the Company.
• Ensure desired accuracy levels of project cost estimates and schedules and develop budgets reflecting project execution strategies set by the project team to verify their full viability, identify/predict any criticalities potentially impacting the achievement of project objectives and prepare early plans for possible solutions.
• Review and advise on projects planning, monitoring and controls provisions of contractual documents prior to their finalization to ensure appropriate systems are in place for monitoring of PMC's and Contractors' activities during projects execution.
• Review progress information from the project team, map actual vs. planned progress, identify variances and suggest appropriate corrective actions to ensure projects are executed within budget and schedule deadlines.
• Ensure the provision of all necessary project execution/ planning details to the Project Accounting in order to allow accurate project cash planning and management and to establish a procedure for validation of progress certificates to ensure payments are properly managed.
• Manage the maintenance of project planning and cost data for to ensure availability of relevant data.
• Manage Projects reporting, including performance versus KPI's, to ensure constant update of top management as of progress versus projects objectives.

Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Professional certificate like PMP, PMI-SP is preferred.

12 years of experience in the Planning & Cost Control function of a large industrial organization, preferably in the Oil and Gas sector. 5-6 years in managerial capacity with hands on experience in project planning, scheduling, monitoring, budgeting and cost control functions