Location: Dubai
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: 6,000 – 8,000
Job description
Job Purpose
- Provide strategic leadership for project controls across FEED and Detail Engineering projects in the Oil & Gas sector.
- Develop, implement, and maintain robust project controls processes and systems to ensure accurate planning, scheduling, cost control, and earned value management.
- Interface with multi-disciplinary teams and clients to establish baselines, monitor performance, and drive on-time, on-budget project delivery.
- Mentor project control professionals, improve forecasting accuracy, and ensure compliance with corporate standards and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the development of project schedules (critical path method, resource-loaded schedules) and cost forecasts; manage baseline establishment and change control.
- Implement and maintain cost accounting, budgeting, earned value management (EVM), trend analysis, and risk registers.
- Monitor and report on scope, schedule, cost, and risk performance; provide actionable insights to project leadership.
- Establish and maintain integrated master schedules (IMS) and work breakdown structures (WBS); coordinate with all EPC disciplines.
- Manage change control processes (ECP/MOC), interfaces, and documentation control for project controls deliverables.
- Prepare and review dashboards, progress reports, cost reports, and forecast-at-completion (FAC) analyses for stakeholders and clients.
- Conduct risk analyses (quantitative and qualitative), perform contingency planning, and escalate critical issues.
- Ensure compliance with company standards, codes, and safety requirements; support internal and external audits.
- Lead the development of procedures for cost estimation, procurement planning, and schedule risk analysis.
- Mentor and develop junior project controls engineers; support staffing, training, and performance evaluations.
- Support procurement, construction, and commissioning activities with timely data and analyses.
- Stay current with advances in project controls tools and methodologies; recommend value-added solutions.
Skills
Experience
- 15+ years of experience in FEED and Detail Engineering and EPCM experience in the Oil & Gas industry.
- Proven experience in oil & gas projects in the Middle East – mandatory
- Extensive experience in gas processing facilities projects – mandatory
- Experience with Tier-1 or Tier-2 Consultants (preferable, managing consultants from the client side)
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (mechanical, chemical, electrical, civil)
- Professional membership or relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, PMI-SP) are a plus.
- Certification in project controls or earned value management is advantageous.
Technical Skills:
- Strong background in project controls, scheduling, cost control, and earned value management.
- Proficiency with project management software (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project) and cost management tools.
- Experience with integrated cost and schedule reporting, change management, and document control.
- Knowledge of procurement planning, risk management, and interface management.
- Familiarity with FEED and detail engineering deliverables and workflows.
- Ability to develop and maintain IMS, WBS, and baselines; conduct performance analysis and forecasting.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.