Cost Control Lead

Overview

Cost Control Lead

Location: Doha, Qatar (Onshore)

Work Pattern: 10 hours per day, 6 days per week, 26 days per month

Contract Duration: 36 months (with potential extension)

Estimated

Start Date:

April 2026

Rotation / Residency

• Single status: 12 weeks on / 2 weeks off
• Married status:
  Residential

An experienced Cost Control Lead is required to support a major onshore energy development project. The role provides senior-level cost management expertise across estimating, forecasting, reporting, cost stewardship, and financial risk assessment. You will play a key role in shaping cost control processes, advising project teams, and ensuring cost governance throughout all project phases.

This position suits a cost management professional with strong oil and gas project experience and the ability to operate as a subject matter expert within large, integrated project organisations.

• Provide expert advice on cost estimating, forecasting, reporting, allocation, benchmarking, and cost control processes.
• Develop, maintain, and improve cost management procedures to meet project and business requirements.
• Review and assess cost estimates, assumptions, and cost data submitted by project teams to confirm accuracy and reasonableness.
• Identify opportunities to standardise cost and expenditure processes and recommend improvements across project teams.
• Review cost-related gate deliverables, including estimate basis and confidence documentation, ensuring alignment with required estimate classifications.
• Review contractor-produced cost estimates and cost conditioning in line with recognised industry practices.
• Prepare funding submissions such as advance commitments, full funding, and supplementary funding packages as required.
• Develop and maintain cost databases and benchmarking information to support estimating activities.
• Participate in project governance activities, including gate reviews, independent project reviews, constructability reviews, and internal audits as the cost subject matter expert.
• Provide ongoing functional support to project management teams, identifying emerging cost risks, gaps, or deviations and supporting timely mitigation actions.
• Support project management of change processes, including assessment of change orders, preparation of cost estimates for defined scope changes, and ad-hoc cost evaluations.
• Ensure all cost control activities comply with safety, quality, governance, and internal control requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Business, Accounting, Commercial, Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a business or project controls discipline.
• At least 4 years’ experience within the oil and gas or energy sector.
• Minimum of 1 year in a supervisory, acting, or oversight role involving contractors, vendors, or service providers.
• Experience supporting large-scale integrated operating and project delivery organisations.

• Strong knowledge of cost control, estimating, forecasting, reporting, change management, risk management, and project governance.
• Experience working with EPC contractors, vendors, and service companies.
• Familiarity with international standards, best practices, and methodologies related to project cost management.
• Subject matter expert-level competence in cost management or a related business discipline.
• Strong risk-based decision-making capability.
• Proficiency in relevant software tools such as enterprise systems, dashboards, data analytics platforms, and cost control systems.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.