Specialist Project Control📣 Job Ad

About S-Chem and the Role

S-Chem is seeking a Specialist Project Control to join its team in Al Jubail, Eastern region. This full-time position is central to managing project costs and schedules, ensuring efficient project execution and robust financial oversight.

Role Purpose

The primary purpose of this role is to provide accurate Total Installed Cost (TIC) estimates for projects and to diligently monitor expenditures against approved budgets. The Specialist Project Control is also responsible for effectively organizing and prioritizing multiple projects and tasks to ensure timely completion and adherence to project objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Compile estimates and associated pricing impacting the Total Installed Cost (TIC), calculating appropriate contingency levels.
• Structure estimates to accurately reflect the cost coding work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Develop the basis of estimates, including the scope of work, basis of equipment pricing, and basis of Material Take-Offs (MTOs).
• Facilitate estimate review meetings to ensure the completeness of project scope within the estimate.
• Maintain and control approved estimates along with all supporting documents for project records.
• Provide guidance to project teams on minimum requirements and format of supporting documents per phase gate.
• Analyze variances in cost and schedule performance against the plan, communicate the reasons for variance issuance, and propose mitigation plans to management.
• Implement work breakdown and project coding structures for the control and integrity of work to be performed as defined by the contract.
• Coordinate with project teams to develop rules of credit and report accurate progress measurement of engineering and construction activities.
• Compare estimates with actuals and appropriately adjust rates for future estimates.
• Provide meaningful, accurate historical data and maintain a database of program cost experiences.
• Assist project engineers with estimating scope changes for funded projects and ensure change management protocols are followed.
• Attend weekly project meetings and contribute to discussions on cost and schedule.
• Communicate budgeted costs, forecasts, overruns, contingency drawdown, and concerns to the project team and management.
• Assist project engineers with the financial closeout of projects.
• Input lessons learned into the program database.
• Perform any other relevant task as directed by the Superintendent Project Engineering.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates for this role should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in project control, cost estimation, and schedule management, preferably within an industrial or large-scale project environment.

Operational Compliance and Improvement

• Strictly follow established environmental, health, safety, and quality policies and procedures to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high-quality products/services, and a responsible environmental attitude.
• Undertake accountabilities in the operational excellence process as set out in the schedule of responsibilities.
• Contribute to the processes of continuous improvement for the assigned area.

Application Process

We invite qualified candidates to apply for this opportunity to contribute to S-Chem's project success and operational efficiency.