Cost Control Lead

Cost Control Lead (Qatar)

• Due to the urgency of this role, we are only looking for someone who is already in Qatar with a valid and transferrable QID.
• Provide executive-level professional advice and guidance in the strategic allocation, planning, funding governance, and macro-level stewardship of costs and expenditures across all project phases.
• Develop, endorse, and maintain high-level Project Controls governance frameworks, funding approval guidelines, and standard reporting procedures to ensure full visibility of project cost efficiency and protection of approved cost baselines.

• Due to the urgency of this role, we are only looking for someone who is already in Qatar with a valid and transferrable QID.
• Provide executive-level professional advice and guidance in the strategic allocation, planning, funding governance, and macro-level stewardship of costs and expenditures across all project phases.
• Develop, endorse, and maintain high-level Project Controls governance frameworks, funding approval guidelines, and standard reporting procedures to ensure full visibility of project cost efficiency and protection of approved cost baselines.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Commercial , Marketing, Sciences, Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Law, Communication, Technologies , Mathematics, and Statistics only.

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in a business-related discipline, including at least four (4) years within the Oil & Gas, Energy, Industrial, Infrastructure, or Major Projects sector.
• Minimum one (1) year of supervisory, acting leadership, or contractor oversight experience.
• Experience working with operators, EPC contractors, subcontractors, vendors, or service providers involved in major capital projects.
• Knowledge of project functions including planning, scheduling, cost control, estimating, claims management, risk management, change management, procurement, contract management, reporting, support services, and lessons learned processes.
• Previous experience on major projects from an Owner's perspective, including management of EPC lump-sum contracts, collaboration with multicultural contract teams, working with large subcontractors, and mentoring junior personnel.
• Experience using ERP and Project Management systems (such as SAP or equivalent enterprise systems).
• Knowledge of industry best practices related to project cost control and project controls governance is desirable.

• Ensure cost data integrity, labor verification, and financial status reporting across all assigned reimbursable and lump-sum contract packages, providing project management with clear visibility of cost efficiency and performance.
• Provide expert guidance to Project Cost Engineers, ensuring standardized project control practices for labor monitoring, actual man-hours reporting, Value of Work Done (VOWD), trend management, contingency monitoring, and expenditure allocation.
• Support project leadership by leading financial, resource, and budget inputs into funding packages and recommending strategic budget reallocations to maintain alignment between forecast cost at completion and approved funding limits.
• Develop forecast cost estimates and prepare annual Work Program and Budget (WP&B), considering project scope, progress achieved, and remaining work.
• Develop and maintain the project's Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), ensuring effective segregation, tracking, and control of reimbursable and fixed-price contract expenditures.
• Monitor, verify, and audit contractor deliverables, timesheets, progress claims, and VOWD submissions. Track cost performance and labor productivity through earned value analysis and progress measurement techniques.
• Advise Project Controls and Project Leadership of adverse cost trends, resource utilization concerns, operational inefficiencies, or budget overruns, and support implementation of corrective and recovery actions.
• Steward project commitments, trends, and budget allocations; assess the financial impact of variations, labor rate adjustments, and overtime requirements to ensure changes are commercially justified and appropriately approved.
• Implement and manage cost and resource tracking solutions to validate contractor-reported information against independent site metrics, ensuring accuracy and consistency in project cost reporting.
• Provide financial and cost-estimating support during pre-award activities; evaluate commercial rate structures, benchmark labor cost models against market data, and conduct financial sensitivity analyses to support procurement and bid evaluation processes.