Job Title: Project Controls Division Manager
Department: Onshore Department, Major Projects
Working Location: Doha, Qatar
Contract Type: Contract
Part A: Job Specification
Job Purpose
- Lead and govern the Project Controls function, ensuring accurate and timely control of cost, schedule, progress, and risk in alignment with approved baselines and compliance with standardised processes.
- Provide oversight of EPC performance, safeguard budget and milestone commitments, and deliver reliable reporting and insights to support informed decision making and successful project delivery.
Reporting and Relationships
- Reports to Business Manager (Onshore).
- Direct reports: 4
Internal
- Frequent contact with Onshore Project PMT.
- Periodic contact with Major Projects Group and other internal stakeholders (Execution Planning and Services, Performance and Delivery, Legal, Supply, Operations, Finance, other Major Projects PMTs and Shared Services departments).
External
- Frequent contact with EPC contractor, their sub-contractors, vendors and other third parties during project execution.
- Periodic contact with onshore project shareholders.
Job Context and Major Challenges
- Role is located within the Business team that provides business and commercial management support for project implementation.
- Requires understanding of key project drivers, defining roles and responsibilities, developing communication protocols, identifying, developing and implementing project procedures for reporting, cost control and planning/scheduling.
- Identify elements of project design and construction likely to give rise to disputes and claims, communicate and influence across the organisation to ensure delivery of project within the agreed timeframe.
- Major challenges include:
1) Completing detailed assessments of project controls, cost, schedule and recovery/rectification plans within short deadlines and in a high-pressure environment.
2) Developing and sustaining relationships with EPC contractor project controls personnel throughout project execution to ensure the company is provided with timely and best available information to aid decision making.
Financial Dimension
- As defined for this job level in the Delegation of Authority and/or approved budget.
Generic Accountabilities - All Employees
Safety Health and Environment
- Ensure all activities are undertaken in compliance with company Safety, Health and Environment and Quality policies, regulations and standards.
Qatarization Program
- Contribute to the development of Qatari employees. This accountability is a condition of employment for expatriate employees.
Firewall Compliance
- Ensure all activities undertaken comply with anti-trust and competition laws and company firewall policies and procedures.
Key Job Accountabilities
1. Provide management and technical direction for all facets of the division (scheduling, planning, reporting, change order cost estimating and cost engineering) by establishing a set of project control procedures, guidelines and flow charts to suit project requirements and support management decision making.
2. Lead project control activities and coordinate input from PMT functions such as engineering and construction.
3. Ensure effective project control measures are executed by the contractor and sub-contractor organisations, with particular emphasis on schedule management, planning and progress monitoring. Recommend modifications to management to ensure standards and requirements are met.
4. Provide an interface between Senior Project Manager, Project Manager, Business Manager, PMT members and EPC contractor with respect to cost and schedule performance, reporting and approvals. Implement and update the Project Control Plan and Project Management of Change as required.
5. Coordinate the collecting, consolidating, analysing and reporting of project cost and schedule, control, trend and progress measurement information to ensure overall project status is assessed and potential problem areas identified. Produce cost estimates on the project as requested by project leadership.
6. Review project changes, evaluating any schedule and/or cost impact; incorporate the effect and impact of approved changes into overall cost and schedule stewardship and reporting.
7. Manage project workforce planning and resourcing, and ensure changes are managed fairly using consistent decision-making criteria across the project.
8. Monitor contractor performance and progress in areas of project controls, scheduling, reporting, progress monitoring and cost estimating, assessing discrepancies and reverting to the contractor for clarifications/corrections. Establish and maintain appropriate, fully integrated planning systems suitable for the project.
9. Review invoices for compliance and completeness, liaise with contractors and/or suppliers and the Accounts Payable department in the resolution of queries and disputes. Provide data for accounting and auditing functions and ensure EPC contractor accounting systems meet audit requirements.
Part B: Person Specification - Minimum Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Sciences or Engineering.
Knowledge and/or Experience
- 12 years experience in multiple project functions and assignments, e.g., project management, engineering, construction, procurement, etc. in the Oil and Gas Industry, including 3 years of Project Management leadership in a major Oil and Gas project.
Technical and Business Skills
- Extensive experience with Oil and Gas companies, EPC contractors, sub-contractors, vendors, or service companies involved in the oil and gas industry.
- Broad experience and demonstrated competence in managing across all phases of project execution including start up and handover, and managing technical issues.
- Broad knowledge in project planning, scheduling, cost control, project gating systems, project execution plans, risk management, change management, interface management, commissioning, and handover processes/procedures.
- Extensive knowledge across engineering disciplines, international engineering standards, specifications, design and execution methodologies.
- Strong experience with risk assessment approaches in decision making.
Department: Onshore Department, Major Projects
Working Location: Doha, Qatar
Contract Type: Contract
Part A: Job Specification
Job Purpose
- Lead and govern the Project Controls function, ensuring accurate and timely control of cost, schedule, progress, and risk in alignment with approved baselines and compliance with standardised processes.
- Provide oversight of EPC performance, safeguard budget and milestone commitments, and deliver reliable reporting and insights to support informed decision making and successful project delivery.
Reporting and Relationships
- Reports to Business Manager (Onshore).
- Direct reports: 4
Internal
- Frequent contact with Onshore Project PMT.
- Periodic contact with Major Projects Group and other internal stakeholders (Execution Planning and Services, Performance and Delivery, Legal, Supply, Operations, Finance, other Major Projects PMTs and Shared Services departments).
External
- Frequent contact with EPC contractor, their sub-contractors, vendors and other third parties during project execution.
- Periodic contact with onshore project shareholders.
Job Context and Major Challenges
- Role is located within the Business team that provides business and commercial management support for project implementation.
- Requires understanding of key project drivers, defining roles and responsibilities, developing communication protocols, identifying, developing and implementing project procedures for reporting, cost control and planning/scheduling.
- Identify elements of project design and construction likely to give rise to disputes and claims, communicate and influence across the organisation to ensure delivery of project within the agreed timeframe.
- Major challenges include:
1) Completing detailed assessments of project controls, cost, schedule and recovery/rectification plans within short deadlines and in a high-pressure environment.
2) Developing and sustaining relationships with EPC contractor project controls personnel throughout project execution to ensure the company is provided with timely and best available information to aid decision making.
Financial Dimension
- As defined for this job level in the Delegation of Authority and/or approved budget.
Generic Accountabilities - All Employees
Safety Health and Environment
- Ensure all activities are undertaken in compliance with company Safety, Health and Environment and Quality policies, regulations and standards.
Qatarization Program
- Contribute to the development of Qatari employees. This accountability is a condition of employment for expatriate employees.
Firewall Compliance
- Ensure all activities undertaken comply with anti-trust and competition laws and company firewall policies and procedures.
Key Job Accountabilities
1. Provide management and technical direction for all facets of the division (scheduling, planning, reporting, change order cost estimating and cost engineering) by establishing a set of project control procedures, guidelines and flow charts to suit project requirements and support management decision making.
2. Lead project control activities and coordinate input from PMT functions such as engineering and construction.
3. Ensure effective project control measures are executed by the contractor and sub-contractor organisations, with particular emphasis on schedule management, planning and progress monitoring. Recommend modifications to management to ensure standards and requirements are met.
4. Provide an interface between Senior Project Manager, Project Manager, Business Manager, PMT members and EPC contractor with respect to cost and schedule performance, reporting and approvals. Implement and update the Project Control Plan and Project Management of Change as required.
5. Coordinate the collecting, consolidating, analysing and reporting of project cost and schedule, control, trend and progress measurement information to ensure overall project status is assessed and potential problem areas identified. Produce cost estimates on the project as requested by project leadership.
6. Review project changes, evaluating any schedule and/or cost impact; incorporate the effect and impact of approved changes into overall cost and schedule stewardship and reporting.
7. Manage project workforce planning and resourcing, and ensure changes are managed fairly using consistent decision-making criteria across the project.
8. Monitor contractor performance and progress in areas of project controls, scheduling, reporting, progress monitoring and cost estimating, assessing discrepancies and reverting to the contractor for clarifications/corrections. Establish and maintain appropriate, fully integrated planning systems suitable for the project.
9. Review invoices for compliance and completeness, liaise with contractors and/or suppliers and the Accounts Payable department in the resolution of queries and disputes. Provide data for accounting and auditing functions and ensure EPC contractor accounting systems meet audit requirements.
Part B: Person Specification - Minimum Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Sciences or Engineering.
Knowledge and/or Experience
- 12 years experience in multiple project functions and assignments, e.g., project management, engineering, construction, procurement, etc. in the Oil and Gas Industry, including 3 years of Project Management leadership in a major Oil and Gas project.
Technical and Business Skills
- Extensive experience with Oil and Gas companies, EPC contractors, sub-contractors, vendors, or service companies involved in the oil and gas industry.
- Broad experience and demonstrated competence in managing across all phases of project execution including start up and handover, and managing technical issues.
- Broad knowledge in project planning, scheduling, cost control, project gating systems, project execution plans, risk management, change management, interface management, commissioning, and handover processes/procedures.
- Extensive knowledge across engineering disciplines, international engineering standards, specifications, design and execution methodologies.
- Strong experience with risk assessment approaches in decision making.