Senior Project Controls Engineer

Wood is recruiting for a senior project controls engineer to join its UAE business unit to support one of our client projects in Dubai, with occasional trips to Iraq.

This role is a full-time office-based role in Dubai, UAE with travel requirements.

Responsibilities

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is recruiting for a senior project controls engineer to join its UAE business unit to support one of our client projects in Dubai, with occasional trips to Iraq.

This role is a full-time office-based role in Dubai, UAE with travel requirements.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior project controls engineer to join our UAE business unit.

Our clients and projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

The EPC project involves the upgrade of produced water, wash water, and fire-fighting systems across all the Rumaila degassing stations. This project will deliver compliant, reliable systems through a combination of repair, upgrade, and replacement activities, aligned with the client's strategy.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to high-profile clients and complex projects in Iraq.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion: we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice.
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.
• Commitment to continued professional development: development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests.
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession.
• Medical insurance: ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
• Group life and personal accident insurance: the company provides life assurance cover.
• The employee share plan: gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company.
• Long service award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating long service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication, and many years' service of our employees at 5-year service milestones.

Key objectives

• Provide the project management with accurate monthly cost and progress reports incorporating early warning, forecast completions, together with the critical path and trend analyses.
• Accountable for managing the main contract commercial issues. To ensure that all work is performed without compromise to quality and in line with the company's procedures.
• Maintain high standards of safety at all times. Advise project team on cost control, planning and contract compliance. Track progress and report against actual cost. Prepare any special progress reports, cost reports, and forecasts for team activities.
• Assist in change management process with project leaders and contractors.
• Review project cost estimates and schedules. Coordinate routine progress reporting.
• Review project cost estimates and project budget tracking for compliance.
• Assist cost engineers to prepare and update weekly and monthly project cost reports.
• Track and evaluate purchase order and subcontract cost reporting and invoicing. Participate in reporting on process and cost.
• Develop a suitable work breakdown structure covering the project requirements and scope of works.
• Develop, baseline, update, and maintain detailed project schedules for various phases of project execution including but not limited to design development, construction, pre-commissioning, and startup.
• Coordinate with client representatives, team members, contractors, and subcontractors to consider all project requirements.
• Provide training, mentoring, and ongoing project controls guidance to project team members.
• Establish and manage the invoicing procedure and supervise its proper implementation.
• Support the development of the project controls team members. Identify and share lessons learned to support continuous improvement of project performance and company operations.

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge, or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

Expected:

• Minimum of 10 years experience in the oil and gas industry.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical or business discipline (or equivalent gained through relevant vocational training and/or industry experience).
• Working with multi-national and multi-cultural project teams is strongly preferred.
• Previous experience of working in the Middle East preferred.
• Experience of a lead role in project controls with the ability to manage a team.
• Expert in writing reports. Commercially and contractually aware and able to manage budgets.
• Familiar with project controls systems. Good oral and communication skills. Must be able to supervise and delegate.
• Strong understanding of cost management, change control, planning, risk analysis and management.
• Excellent understanding of earned value application, cost and schedule variance analyses, trending, and what-if scenarios.
• Advanced knowledge of Primavera and other scheduling software and related tools and techniques including logic and CPM analysis, resource loading, and levelling.