Company: Shell
Skills: Project Controls
Education: High School/Secondary
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Skills: Project Controls
Education: High School/Secondary
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Title
Project Cost Engineer
Job Purpose
The Project Cost Engineer scope involves supporting the delivery of consistent and appropriate cost management structures / tools / processes for Portfolio of projects throughout all the phases. The Project Cost Engineer shall work closely with project teams, Engineering Partner and Vendors/Contractors to deliver the following:
Accountabilities
Skills & Requirements
Project Cost Engineer
Job Purpose
The Project Cost Engineer scope involves supporting the delivery of consistent and appropriate cost management structures / tools / processes for Portfolio of projects throughout all the phases. The Project Cost Engineer shall work closely with project teams, Engineering Partner and Vendors/Contractors to deliver the following:
Accountabilities
- Support Project Leads in controlling the program / portfolio and/ or specific projects within the program
- Support Lead Cost Engineer in establishing and maintaining the project baseline cost.
- Update and maintain Project/Portfolio dashboards including automation of reports and integrating with existing tools
- Support the project team in making timely decisions and improve predictability by providing data analysis, highlight early warnings and key opportunities
- Implement project cost breakdown structures (CBS) and their population from the estimate.
- Prepare Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and documented Cost Time and Resource (CTR) sheets for phased cost estimates
- Generate accurate monthly cost reports (OC-1), highlighting variances from the plan on commitment, value of work done, EAC and providing commentary on reasons for deviation
- Support Budget allocation, Monthly and Quarterly LE process
- Contribute to the change management process, analyze trends and highlight potential impacts of changes on cost.
- Update Contingency release / drawdown based on key risks & opportunities, project changes and trends
- Update and maintain Manpower Resource Plan for the Transformation program
- Contractor Invoice verification / Vendor engagement / RtP Support-Cost aspects (WBS Creation / Network Creation)
- Project Creation / Closeout deliverables (PO / network closeout including GSAP & Vendor follow up)
- Time writing (GSAP & SERP) / Manhour monitoring / Cost recoveries
- Work in close alignment with the relevant Project Leads, Finance and C&P to clarify any inconsistencies
- Support project teams with presentations, dashboards
Skills & Requirements
- Engineering Degree and/or Certification as a Cost Engineer or equivalent experience.
- 2-8 years of refinery or petrochemical industry experience in cost engineering / cost controls preferably on capital projects
- Practical understanding of all phases of the project delivery process.
- Working knowledge of a broad range of Project Controls systems, tools, and practices specifically in Oil & Gas industry.
- Team player with good interpersonal skills and proven track record of being self-motivated.
- Able to work across multiple projects largely unsupervised and deliver results within challenging deadlines and under pressure.
- Experience in working in multi-discipline and multi-national teams, with well proven interpersonal & communication skills.
- Strong leadership, communication, report-writing, and presentation skills.
- Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills
- Customer focus and ability to work in a virtual environment/remote support to customers
- Skill in SAP/ GSAP, Excel, Access
- Preferred experience in following tools: Ecosys, PowerBI, @Risk