Principal Project Control Specialist

Job description / Role

About us

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals, and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement, and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet todays needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

Major accountabilities of position

Project execution

• Provide specialist project control services to support the Worley project control system.
• Assist the Business Systems Group in rolling out the project control system, including initial configuration and contributing to training activities.
• Liaise with project teams to ensure the correct use of the project control system, based on project-specific requirements and corporate guidelines.
• Set up projects in collaboration with project management, system administration, and document control teams to meet internal and external Project Services requirements.
• Provide project planning and scheduling services to ensure project completion dates are met.
• Provide cost control services to support effective project cost management and profitability monitoring.
• Analyze costs and schedules, and report anomalies, fluctuations, unusual occurrences, or other spending concerns that could affect the final cost forecast or expected completion date.
• Provide planning, scheduling, cost estimation, and commercial support for proposals.
• Facilitate communication among project managers, discipline leads, system administrators, and document controllers.
• Take ownership of cost control and ensure the integrity of processed data. Coordinate with Finance as required before submitting reports to management or for Project Controls System (PCS) or Worley Project Review (WPR) meetings.
• Liaise with clients to clarify cost-related issues and develop timely, meaningful monthly invoices. Ensure invoices are paid according to contract terms.

Project deliverables

• Review and develop data interfaces for third-party project systems, as required.
• Prepare and control work orders (WOs).
• Implement financial controls, including expenditure authorizations and cash flow projections.
• Provide weekly progress collection and updates, schedule updates, cost control and management, change order and variation management, cash flow status, subcontractor progress management, and weekly project data uploads to the Project Controls Database.
• Issue internal weekly project status and productivity reports, as well as external client progress reports. Prepare monthly project financial reports and other financial analyses as required.
• Ensure projects are controlled, monitored, and documented according to Project Services standards and specifications. Conduct timely project-level Project Controls audits.

Worley vision, purpose, and values

• Understand and communicate Worleys vision, purpose, and values, and translate the strategy into practical goals and objectives for yourself and team members.

Quality assurance

• Ensure reporting is error-free and work within the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance systems.

Safety

• Take responsibility for personal safety and work in accordance with Occupational Health and Safety procedures.
• Be competent in implementing HSE in the design process, focus on process safety, and strive to use best practices.

General accountabilities

• Comply with and stay up to date on the behaviors and business practices outlined in Worley processes, as well as all applicable laws, regulations, and standards.
• Deliver quality services and demonstrate a commitment to understanding and meeting customer needs.
• Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to achieving the Worley vision and its associated requirements.
• Arrive punctually for work and meetings.
• Demonstrate commitment to the organization.
• Comply with the legal obligations and safety requirements of the role.
• Work to tight deadlines and prioritize tasks to meet them.

Knowledge, experience, and competencies required

Job-specific knowledge

• Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to HSE management and its associated requirements in a project environment.
• Demonstrate knowledge of engineering design, construction, and project delivery.
• Understand the application of the Worley Project Review (WPR) and Enterprise Management System (EMS).
• Understand the application of Worleys core systems, such as Oracle for finance and timesheets, and EcoSys for project control.
• Understand the commercial aspects of project contracts and procedures and their application to cost management.
• Have experience handling large engineering projects on a reimbursable basis.

Essential competencies

Relating and networking

• Relate well to people at all levels.
• Establish good relationships within and outside the team.
• Use a range of interpersonal skills to engage effectively with people across the organization.
• Build appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization.

Applying expertise and technology

• Use technology to achieve work objectives.
• Develop job knowledge and expertise through continual professional development.
• Demonstrate an understanding of different organizational departments and functions.
• Implement innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively manage out-of-sequence work.

Planning and organizing

• Set clearly defined objectives.
• Plan activities and projects well in advance, taking possible changing circumstances into account.
• Manage time effectively.
• Prioritize tasks and maintain a sense of urgency in achieving outcomes.
• Work with minimal supervision.
• Monitor performance against deadlines and milestones.
• Organize information from multiple sources and retain it in accordance with prescribed formats and policies.

Delivering results and meeting customer expectations

• Take responsibility for customer satisfaction and resolving customer problems or issues.
• Understand the types and nature of work across projects and the capabilities required for different project types.
• Maintain excellent customer focus and consistently meet the needs of Worley and its clients.
• Identify issues, problems, and opportunities; make timely decisions; develop appropriate and innovative solutions; and ask for assistance when required.
• Achieve results set by yourself and others, meet timelines, and strive to achieve challenging goals.

Following instructions and procedures

• Follow instructions from supervisors appropriately and without unnecessarily challenging authority.
• Follow procedures and policies.
• Keep to schedules.
• Use workflow procedures competently to deliver design-specific deliverables.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the definition and application of engineering codes and standard practices.

Coping with pressures and setbacks

• Maintain a positive outlook at work.
• Work productively in a pressurized environment.
• Keep emotions under control during difficult situations.
• Handle criticism well and learn from it.

Desirable competencies

Deciding and initiating action

• Take responsibility for actions.
• Take initiative and work independently.

Working with people

• Communicate effectively with the discipline team and project stakeholders.
• Recognize the value of cultural diversity and apply appropriate workplace practices.
• Demonstrate awareness of and willingness to work as a team member.
• Establish good working relationships with team members, peers, and senior managers.

Adhering to principles and values

• Demonstrate integrity and earn others trust by consistently honoring commitments.
• Uphold ethics and values.

Analyzing

• Analyze engineering and design problems methodically and arrive at satisfactory solutions.
• Analyze numerical data and other sources of information.
• Understand how an individual issue may be part of a larger system.

Learning and researching

• Learn new tasks quickly and commit information to memory.
• Demonstrate an immediate understanding of newly presented information.
• Gather comprehensive information to support decision-making.

Achieving personal work goals and objectives

• Be proactive and goal-oriented, with excellent attention to detail.
• Manage changes to work tasks and the work environment effectively.

Industry-specific experience

• Have a minimum of 15 years of planning and cost control experience in the oil and gas industry, including at least 10 years as a Project Controls Engineer on an offshore or onshore project.
• Have experience in planning and scheduling, cost control, cost estimating, and risk management, with alignment across these disciplines.
• Have a proven track record of handling engineering projects in different phases, such as Pre-FEED, FEED, and detailed engineering.
• Hands-on experience managing brownfield engineering projects is preferred.

Education, qualifications, accreditation, and training

• Full-time bachelors degree in engineering from an accredited university.
• Project Controls certification from PMI or AACE is preferred.

HSE capability

• Maintain an HSE focus within the team to ensure OHSE requirements are met.
• Demonstrate behaviors and business practices that support a culture of world-class health, safety, and environmental performance.
• Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to personal well-being, healthy and safe workplaces and activities, and continuous improvement in Worleys health, safety, and environmental performance.
• Identify and report work hazards and incidents.

IT skills

• Proficiency in Primavera, Primavera Risk Analysis or Acumen Fuse, and advanced Excel skills; working knowledge of EcoSys.

People skills

• Work effectively in diverse teams.
• Build appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization.
• Communicate clearly, accurately, and consistently in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Use active listening and encourage feedback from others.

Other

• Have good spoken and written English communication skills.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to convey information and ideas to individuals and groups and make presentations when required.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm, persistence, and tenacity.
• Demonstrate initiative and a willingness to learn and continuously improve performance.
• Work on multiple projects of varying sizes and complexity.
• Work effectively in small to large multidisciplinary teams and share and transfer knowledge within teams.

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. Our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection, and innovation. Were building a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and is heard.

And were not just talking about it; were doing it. Were reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in todays low-carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, theres a path for you here.

Theres no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.

About the Company

Worley is a leading global provider of professional services in the energy, chemicals and resources sectors. We partner with our customers to address their most critical challenges at every stage of their projects: from initial concepts to sustaining and enhancing their assets. And we provide smarter, bolder solutions while delivering on our own sustainability commitments.

We are 51,000 bright minds across 46 countries all driven by a common purpose – delivering a more sustainable world. While working to fulfill our ambition to be recognized globally as the leader in sustainability solutions.