Lead Cost Control Engineer

Job description / Role

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia.

Right now, we're bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.

We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.

Job Purpose & Scope:
- Ensuring HSSEQ goals, objectives and targets are met through personal leadership and involvement.
- Safe delivery and handover of the Project to the Owner, sustainably, safely, on time, within budget, ensuring that a quality product is produced that represents 'best value' for the Owner and their Stakeholders.
- To provide Cost and Estimating management, leadership and support for all Project activities.
- Oversee Budget, Cost, Estimating, Progress Measurement and Forecasting activities of the EPC Contractor and ensure these are aligned to the overall Project objectives.
- Support the Project Controls Manager and provide functional support to the Project PMC and Owner's teams.

Principal Accountabilities:
- Champion the Project Safety culture, behaviors and engagement activities.
- Reports to PMC Project Controls Manager and works under his direction.
- Reviews, monitors and controls Project costs. Verify EPC Contractor requests for payments, including the required supporting documents and achievement of milestone events and certifying their entitlements for payments accordingly.
- Ensure that adequate information is supplied to verify progress claims against milestones and invoices submitted including calling for further information to substantiate progress claims where necessary, prior to payment by the Owner.
- Review EPC Contractor's Invoices, Progress Measurement and Forecasts and provide assessments to Project senior management.
- Review Project Business Plans and Execution strategies to provide input to strategic priorities, Operating Budgets and cost forecasts.
- Review EPC Contractor's nominated Subcontractor's un-priced bid submissions for Progress Measurement and Reporting requirements.
- Ensure that PMC procedures for Estimating, Progress Measurement and Forecasting are approved and implemented.
- Provide functional input to the review and approval of EPC Contractor's invoices and Change Order proposals.
- Participate in Project risk reviews, constructability reviews and value engineering workshops.
- Provide functional input to PMC weekly/monthly progress reports and presentations to the Owner and provide exception reports related to the overall Project Cost.
- Review EPC Contract close-out reports and performance evaluation reports and provide functional input to Project senior management.
- Review PMC systems and procedures to provide functional input and support continuous improvement.
- Establish and implement Project statistical database for benchmarking purposes.
- Review Project short term and medium-term constraints and concerns to provide mitigation plans and corrective actions.
- Avoid or minimize the variations from EPC Contractor by taking proactive and preventive actions.
- Perform trend analysis on both schedule and cost for early identification of potential deviations and advise Owner of their implications.
- Evaluate, EPC Contractor change orders/claims request for any Engineering, equipment or materials and
- Construction extras as well as schedule extensions, with recommendation to approve, modify or reject.
- Prepare Project cost reports to Owner highlighting current expenditure, commitments and forecast payments to the EPC Contractor.
- Participate in the preparation of Project progress reports addressing cost and schedule trends, productivity and actions taken.
- Participate in the close-out of the early work phase and the EPC Contract.
- Assist in the administration of financial agreements, drawdown forecasts of loan funds, cash flow of all funds and other financial aspects.
- Monitor cash flow in multi-currencies.
- Supervise internal and external audits.
- Monitor budgets

Requirements

Qualification.
- Experienced in Oil & Gas / Petrochemical industry.
- Must have relevant years' experience in Cost Control
- Engineering qualification(s) or equivalent experience in engineering / construction preferable.
- Proven computer literacy skills with experience in cost and project control computer applications
- Proven ability to communicate effectively with others; (verbally, in written communications and in presentations / meetings).
- Ability to effectively and efficiently plan / prioritize all areas of responsibility such as: Budgets; Time management; Resources - training and succession planning.
- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of industry standard practices in cost control activities.
- Experience in audit activities

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here. And there's no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.

About the Company

Worley is a leading global provider of professional services in the energy, chemicals and resources sectors. We partner with our customers to address their most critical challenges at every stage of their projects: from initial concepts to sustaining and enhancing their assets. And we provide smarter, bolder solutions while delivering on our own sustainability commitments.

We are 51,000 bright minds across 46 countries all driven by a common purpose – delivering a more sustainable world. While working to fulfill our ambition to be recognized globally as the leader in sustainability solutions.