Project Controls Lead

Job description / Role

Job description

Wood is recruiting for a Project Controls Lead to join our team in Sharjah, UAE. This is a full-time office-based role with business trips.

Responsibilities

• Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.
• Wood is recruiting for a Project Controls Lead to join our team in Sharjah, UAE. This is a full-time office-based role with business trips.
• The role
• This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Controls Lead to join our Iraq Operations Business. This role is full time residential based in Sharjah, UAE.
• Our clients and projects
• Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonisation ambitions.

Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long-term growth of the region.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Medical insurance: ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment
• Group life and personal accident insurance: the company provides life assurance cover
• The employee share plan: gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long service award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating long service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years services of our employees at 5-year service milestones

Key accountabilities & responsibilities:

• Act as the focal point with the client and any contractor project controllers as appropriate to ensure costs and progress are reported accurately, ensure alignment with the project reporting requirements, and ensure timely and accurate cost and progress reporting
• Monitor overall project/assignment progress status, achievement and non-achievement of major milestones and analyse performance in relation to plan
• Responsible for identification, monitoring and reporting against the project critical path providing early warning to the project manager of any potential slippages
• Effectively manage the communications interfaces essential for the delivery of cost, planning, scheduling and risk deliverables and services
• Report project status and KPI to management
• Produce weekly and monthly project cost and planning status reports
• Implement the project work breakdown structure for specific scopes of work
• Implement the cost and planning control structures in alignment with the project work breakdown structure
• Lead the project work approval process in terms of accurate cost code allocation and initial budget set-up and approvals
• Timely control and forecasting of budgets and ensure that the impact of all change requests is properly assessed and included in the budget and schedules if applicable
• Ensure project accountants and billing specialists receive support required from the team
• Monitor, record and/or evaluate progress for subcontractors
• Support with quantifying subcontractor scopes of work for request for quotations
• Production and overall maintenance of project S-curves and histograms
• Creation of the projects fully resourced, logic linked Gantt charts within preferred planning software to the agreed project and programme requirements
• Monitor current and forecast future resource needs for the project and programme through analysis of workload at project level
• Identify slippages, significant float erosion and lead the recovery process
• Responsible for overall development and issuance of project change orders/variations in accordance with contract/assignment change notifications
• Advocate and promote the project change management system ensuring process is adhered to
• Attendance at client progress meetings when required
• Facilitate the preparation of proposal schedules and CTR packs
• Lead cost and schedule risk analysis workshops/sessions both internally and with clients
• Ensure risk is managed and monitored at project level in line with local standards and processes
• Ensure project controls processes and procedures are accurate, up to date and followed
• Liaise with clients and ensure that projects are managed effectively to ensure delivery in a manner which meets quality, time, and budget specifications
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of all cost, planning and risk deliverables prior to issue to internal or external customer
• Ensure all project specific tools and systems are set up and functioning adequately
• Delegate and manage the work of the subordinate project controls team as required
• Support staff performance and competency reviews

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you dont match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the worlds most critical challenges.

Expected:

• B.S. or equivalent degree
• Minimum of 15+ years relevant experience in major brownfield oil & gas projects, including at least five (5) years in similar position
• Pre-FEED, FEED experience

Knowledge, skills, and experience:

• Typically requires a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant industry experience, with at least six (6) years in project control positions
• Knowledge and appreciation of the core principles of contracts management, commercial management and project management
• Working knowledge and application of earned value and other monitoring techniques
• Excellent client service focus
• Exceptional organisational skills and able to multi-task
• Working knowledge of risk management processes and techniques and experience in facilitating risk workshops with project/assignment teams
• Advanced working knowledge of relevant software tools such as Microsoft Project and Primavera
• Pre-FEED, FEED experience

About us

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.

Diversity statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.