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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

Overview

• Ensure compliance to Global Standards for planning and cost control
• Lead Project Controls team in large projects including both Schedule and Cost Control functions
• Manage project portfolio and identify and mitigate transactional and systemic risks to cost and schedule
• Manage workload of team to ensure there is requisite resources and skills available to meet project needs
• Collaborate and align with other local function leaders
• Overall supervision of team

Scheduling

• Builds tender integrated schedules using the established tools and processes and challenges the team to ensure schedule risk is managed with a balance of competitive offering aligned to historical performance
• Builds and maintain the single project schedule representing the entire project by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project
• Ensure proper linkages in schedule to show all interdependencies between contributing parties
• Ensure functional owners sign off on commitments and are made accountable for their date
• Works collaboratively with other overall project planning team to ensure optimal alignment of schedule with overall schedule
• Delivers a high quality schedule aligned with global standards to ensure project is accurately represented
• Maintains schedule thru the entire project obtaining inputs from all project contributors
• Drives regular operating rhythm with project team to review schedule status and operating rhythm
• Challenges functional owners on forecast completion dates to ensure dates are realistic
• Provides schedule analysis to forecast schedule risk and opportunities using available tools and experience
• Provides look ahead, backlog and future late reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities
• Generates “what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility
• Provides strategies to mitigate risks
• Drives functional owners to mitigate risks and follows up with functional owners on risk mitigation actions
• Collaborate with 3rd parties on project schedules and cost
• Provides and communicate regular status reporting

Cost Controlling

• Ensure the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
• Reviews project schedule and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Reviews project scope evolution to identify cost risk and opportunities
• Reviews functional execution and events to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Provides cost analytics using project information and analysing cost and productivity trends
• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
• Own and drive the Budget Deviation Process with tools
• Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities
• Develops cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where needed
• 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 cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status and actions
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Provide time based cost forecasts to support revenue recognition
• Analyze all the risks and opportunities communicate clearly priorities and potential impacts
• Support change order analysis
• Support claim preparations
• Lead the team of Project Cost Control analysts on larger projects
• 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)

Quality & Lean

• 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

EHS

• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (with financial training preferably)
• Proficiency in English is mandatory and French speaking skill will be a plus
• Strong working experience for High Voltage Substation Projects and/or EPC Projects environment, as Lead Project Planner and/or Lead Cost Controller
• Proficiency in using Primavera P6
• Knowledge of forensic analysis on large complex turnkey projects
• Experience in team management responsibility
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Strong cost management, forecasting and scheduling

Desired Characteristics

• Able to drive project teams to control the project.
• Analytical skills to use data to forecast outcomes.
• Clear communicator with strong communication and influencing skills.

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