About The Position
The incumbent is responsible for the management and execution of projects related to customer equipment, facilities, or infrastructure. As such, they are responsible for project delivery, profit and loss accountability, and customer satisfaction by coordinating the activities and resources necessary for their completion. They participate in the planning and execution of departmental operations or focus on the execution of professional activities within a technical discipline. They work with some autonomy, guided by established policies or review of end results. The job allows for modification of procedures and practices covering work as long as the end results meet established quality, volume, and timeline standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 5 years of experience in Job Family Group(s)/Function(s)).
- Deep domain knowledge of planning and use of Primavera.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- 5+ years planning large turnkey projects.
- 2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects.
- Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects.
- Knowledge of cost control function on large complex turnkey projects.
- Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Established project management skills.
- Bilingual French/English.
- Identifying the key stakeholders from who to get inputs. Explain/exemplify how some would start the planning process; (proactivity).
- Clearly identify/understand the scope of work by reading the contract and also pushing the PM/CM to help and prepare contract summary. Push on every function leader to decompose the scope and agree on the schedule; (proactivity/leadership).
- Able to translate the project scope of work, restrictions, constraints, assumptions into a schedule. Needs to know how to operate schedule tools, how to create schedule links, task types, WBS; (technical skills).
- Able to clearly identify critical paths 1,2,3. Able to leverage the tool to report all variances in the project tasks, how to utilize different baselines and explain the purposes for using it - compare contractual baseline, target baseline, last month plan, forecast dates; (technical skills/autonomy to define own rhythm).
- Able to set/explain a project planning rhythm - what kind of tasks would perform? frequency? who is involved? (proactivity/leadership).
- Able to explain impacts of schedule management on contractual discussions - capture customer delays, internal delays, forensic analysis... (technical/proactivity/leadership).
- Knowledge & Experience on Planning Tools - MS Project, P6.
- Familiar with project costs management.
- Able to explain how costs are structured (type of costs, how they are grouped/categorized/reported).
- Able to explain how costs are tracked (how as sold is identified, which tools are used (SAP), how costs are reported, how variances are tracked and reported, any customized template).
- How invoices are tracked (what's the involvement in the process).
Responsibilities
- Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates.
- Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools.
- Ensures compliance to the Global Standard process for Project Controls.
- Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems.
- Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project.
- Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team.
- Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks.
- Maintain a register of actual and committed costs.
- Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates.
- Communicates schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation.
- Provides internal and external project reporting of project status.
- Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules.
- Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status.
- Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate.
- Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation.
- Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
- Support project close out and claims.
- Provide support to tenders.
- Oversee the planning function on the project.
- Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.
- Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting.
- Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost.
- Ensure alignment to established standards (WBS, process, procedures, tools usage).
- Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.
- Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function.
- Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner.
- Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements.
- Demonstrate commitment to safety through participation in formal and informal discussions.
- Adhere to all safe working procedures in accordance with instructions.
- Ensure safety work instructions are complied.
- Participate in the resolution of safety issues.
- Initiate actions to improve health and safety where needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
