NSB Omega is searching for a Controls Engineer for our MAJOR Oil & Gas Client in Calgary, AB.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering within discipline or equivalent professional experience
• 15+ years’ of experience working on projects
• Previous upstream (mining and in-situ) experience preferred
• Strong technical mentoring skills for other Project Controls Engineers
• Ability to work well with many team members distributed across different sites/time zones
• May assist with projects across Canada, potential for wide-variety of projects big and small, though focus would be on Upstream projects in Alberta
• Strong influencing, consulting, mentoring, analytical, and computing skills
• Advanced level proficiency in Project Controls, and ideally Cost Estimating and Project Planning as well
• Basic to strong competency in Primavera Project Planner (P6)
• Strong Influencing, consulting, mentoring, analytical, and computing skills
• Skills to negotiate and broker successful solutions between Internal Coordination parties above
• Adaptability to changing priorities
• Ability to multitask and respond quickly to urgent analysis requests
• Strong/excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to organize, plan, control, coordinate, and effectively manage cross-functional activities.

• Primary Responsibilities

• Lead Client project team and/or Contractor to establish cost and schedule control bases, progress and productivity measurement system(s), and project-specific reporting

• Provide project cost and schedule analysis, progress measurement, change management, reporting, forecasting and budgeting expertise to Project Team(s) and implement same on multiple projects
• Prepares cost and schedule forecasts, progress/status reports, and monthly/quarterly stewardship deliverables on multiple projects in line with Project Control Plans and Stewardship process(es)
• Responsible for maintaining cost and schedule change control
• Detects/identifies cost and schedule opportunities, vulnerabilities, trends, deviations, underruns and overruns, and can make recommendations for corrective actions and recovery plans
• Maintains close liaison with members of the project team(s), particularly Client’s project manager(s)
• Maintains regular contact with the Cost and Schedule Functional organization
• Work closely with cost estimators, planners and schedulers, and Client’s accounting staff

• Work closely with Client’s project manager and team leads for regulated and non-regulated accounting reporting requirements

Other Responsibilities

• Stewards the Contractor’s project control organization with respect to cost and schedule control and progress measurement
• Advises the Contractor’s organization with respect to adequacy of project control tools and reporting
• Assist Project Team in developing/reviewing cost and schedule corrective actions and recovery plans (including those of Contractors), and verifies needed actions/plans are implemented
• Reviews project changes to evaluate cost and schedule impact; responsible for quantifying and incorporating the effect and impact of approved changes in the cost and schedule stewardship and reporting
• Reviews cost and schedule bases of Contractor change proposals
• Reviews and endorses changes with regards to cost and schedule (and progress) impact
• Supports Project Team with ongoing project cost and schedule progress measurement and analysis, reporting, and forecasting activities
• Ensure that Contractor cost and schedule control practices and progress measurement systems comply with Project Coordination Procedures
• Responsible for ensuring that proper and effective project control measures are executed by Contractors; including the Contractor’s cost and schedule control organization, plans and procedures
• Review and, where appropriate, endorse schedule, progress and cost baselines and forecast prepared by Contractors
• Ensure integration of subcontractors’ schedules and progress measurement system
• Monitor Contractor performance vs. approved cost budgets and schedule baselines to assist Project Team(s) in identification of issues and development / implementation of corrective actions or recovery plans
• Analyze cost and schedule progress, schedule trends, and develop forecasts to support management decision making
• Supports preparation for Gates Reviews, Advance Commitment, Full Funding or Supplement activities
• Participate in contract bid evaluations (as required for cost and schedule control system/tool evaluation)
• Ensure familiarity of Project Team with Contractor payment terms and contract coordination procedures applicable to their scope
• Interface with Controllers regarding AFEs/budgets and invoices and development of Work-In-Place
• Participate in developing Contract Price Budgets and Contract Control Schedules and Milestones
• Respond to ad hoc requests from Project Management Team (PMT) related to Controls/Reporting
• Drives and promotes capital efficiency on projects being stewarded by the department
• Provide timely and accurate data and deliverables in support of benchmarking and tool building
• Supports preparation of Project Close-outs
• Participates in gathering and recording of Lessons Learned for the Project that relate to cost and schedule control and progress areas