Planning Engineer

Job description / Role

- Reporting to the President Coordinator, the Senior Planning Engineer will be required to provide Asset cost evaluation of all aspects of KECs (assets / projects / initiatives.)
- Ensure consistency in approach, delivery and continual improvement of KECs Project Cost Management processes and procedures
- Provide leadership/guidance in the development of databases to support field development/prospect evaluation for the country offices.
- Provide analytical interpretation of cost information in relation to progress / earned value / change / risk.
- Provide input to economic evaluations
- Liaise with project teams to provide cost phasing information
- Establish the development of a cost database to reflect trends and budget / actual analysis
- Manage and maintain the cost control specific tools within the organization
- Oversee the application of information technology to project controls
- Prepare and manage budgets and forecasts in conjunction with budget holders.
- Identify and quantify emerging changes and report cost deviations
- Assist with the close out of all projects and prepare look back reports
- Analyze industry studies and assist with the preparation of recommendations on business opportunities.
- Some international travel will be required.

Requirements

- Tertiary qualifications in engineering.
- Significant relevant experiences should include upstream oil and gas industry including familiarity with all modern petroleum industry cost analysis packages.
- A working knowledge of cost probabilities and associated software
- A working knowledge of economic indicators eg. EP, NPV, DCF, EMV, etc.
- Knowledge of all phases associated with project execution (eg. Front end design, Fabrication)
- Knowledge of standard engineering documents (eg. FDP, equipment lists, weight reports, etc.)
- Analytical and Data Management Skills
- Communication
- Facilitating Change
- Planning & Organizing
- 10 years in energy, resource or Engineering sector
- Extensive experience in the resource or energy sector in an Engineering/field development planning/cost and project team/Business Planning team environment.
- Primary experience should be in construction and maintenance of complex Engineering models with a high level of modeling accuracy, and provision of cost and technical advice to asset managers and senior management.

The Senior Planning Engineer must be self-motivated, have effective intra-team communication skills. Working knowledge of Quester.

* Sense of humor.

About the Company

Established in Kuwait in August 2005, Kuwait Energy Company is an independent Oil & Gas Exploration and Production company. Kuwait Energy Company prides itself as an Oil & Gas company with extensive knowledge of the Middle East region with outstanding relations with host governments, national oil companies and international companies that operate in the Middle East.

Kuwait Energy has a high quality and diverse portfolio of oil and gas assets and is focused on exploration, production and development of oil and gas reserves in the MENA and Eurasia regions.

Headquartered in Kuwait, the Company’s regional offices include Cairo, Sana’a, Baghdad, Basra, Ukhta and Kiev, overseeing operations in eight countries namely Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, Oman, Ukraine, Latvia, Russia and Pakistan. Our participation interests range from 15% to 100% across our exploration and producing assets, providing a balance of risk diversification with significant upside exploration potential.