Project Controls Div Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and govern the Project Controls function, ensuring accurate and timely control of cost, schedule, progress, and risk in alignment with approved baselines and compliance with standardized processes.
• Provide oversight of performance, safeguard budget and milestone commitments, and deliver reliable reporting and insights to support informed decision‑making and successful project delivery.
• Provide management and technical direction for all facets of the division (scheduling, planning, reporting, change‑order cost estimating, and cost engineering) by establishing a set of project control procedures, guidelines, and flowcharts to suit project requirements and support management decision‑making.
• Lead project control activities and coordinate input from PMT functions such as engineering, construction, and others.
• Ensure effective project control measures are executed by contractor and sub‑contractor organizations, with particular emphasis on schedule management, planning, progress monitoring, and recommend modifications to management to meet company and PMT standards and requirements.
• Act as an interface between Senior Project Manager, Project Manager, Business Manager, PMT members, and contractors with respect to cost and schedule performance, reporting, and approvals.
• Implement and update the Project Control Plan and Project Management of Change as required.
• Coordinate the collecting, consolidating, analyzing, and reporting of project cost and schedule control, trend, and progress measurement information to assess overall project status and identify potential problem areas. Produce cost estimates on the project as requested by project leadership.
• Review project changes, evaluating any schedule and/or cost impact; incorporate the effect of approved changes into overall cost and schedule stewardship and reporting.
• Manage project workforce planning and resourcing and ensure changes are managed fairly using consistent decision‑making criteria across the project.
• Monitor contractor performance and progress in areas of project controls, scheduling, reporting, progress monitoring, and cost estimating, assessing discrepancies and revising to contractors for clarification or corrections.
• Establish and maintain appropriate planning systems that are fully integrated and suitable for the project.
• Review invoices for compliance and completeness, liaise with contractors and/or suppliers, and with the Accounts Payable department to resolve queries and disputes.
• Provide data for accounting and auditing functions and ensure contractor accounting systems meet company audit requirements.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sciences or Engineering.
• 12 years of experience in multiple project functions and assignments, e.g., project management, engineering, construction, procurement, etc. in the Oil & Gas Industry, including 3 years of Project Management leadership in a major oil & gas project.
• Extensive experience with Oil & Gas companies, EPC contractors, subcontractors, vendors, or service companies involved in the industry.
• Broad experience and demonstrated competence in managing across all phases of project execution, including startup and handover, and managing technical issues.
• Broad knowledge in project planning, scheduling, cost control, project gating systems, project execution plans, risk management, change management, interface management, commissioning, and handover processes/procedures.
• Extensive knowledge across engineering disciplines, international engineering standards, specifications, design, and execution methodologies.
• Strong experience with risk assessment approaches in decision making.

• Day Rate in USD plus allowance.

• 10 hours per day, 6 days per week.

• 36 months, with possible extension.

• Qatar.