Project Control Specialist

1 month ago


Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Wood PLC Full time

We are seeking a highly skilled Project Control Specialist to join our team at Wood PLC. The successful candidate will provide cost, planning, scheduling, and risk assessment support to project teams and clients on smaller projects.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide project cost, planning, scheduling, and risk assessment support to project teams and clients.
  • Run project controls systems and tools for project cost, schedule, and risk management and reporting.
  • Liaise with client and contractor project controllers to ensure alignment with project reporting requirements and timely cost and progress reporting.
  • Report on planned and actual progress figures, cost and schedule data, and provide early warning of potential slippages.
  • Facilitate collection of weekly progress figures from project teams and contractors.
  • Monitor and report against project critical path and provide recommendations for improvement.
  • Develop and maintain project work breakdown structures and schedules.
  • Study and understand relevant documents pertaining to plans and schedules.
  • Monitor project work approval process in terms of accurate cost code allocation and initial budget set-up and approvals.
  • Monitor and control cost commitments and expenditures throughout project phases.
  • Liaise with project accounting and time-capture functions for accurate and timely capture of costs.
  • Work closely with project accountants and billing specialists in billing processes and cost-related queries.
  • Apply baseline and forecast installation unit rates and norms for estimating quantity change impacts.
  • Support earned value progress measurement and assist with updates and changes to project quantities and reports on variances to baseline.
  • Maintain project S-curves and histograms and perform progress updates of project Gantt charts.
  • Monitor current resource needs for the project and programme.
  • Identify slippages, significant float erosion, and raise to senior team members with suggestions for recovery actions.
  • Track and input into the change management system and follow change management process.
  • Attend client progress meetings and assist with proposal schedules and CTR packs.
  • Participate in cost and schedule risk analysis workshops and be familiar with project controls processes and procedures.

Requirements:

  • Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of progressive industry experience, with at least 5 years in project control positions.
  • Experience of project planning software (MS Project / Primavera).
  • Excellent Excel skills.
  • Knowledge and application of earned value and other progress monitoring techniques.
  • Knowledge of risk management processes and techniques.
  • Typically requires ISCED level 6 (Bachelors) Degree in a relevant technical or business discipline.


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