Projects Control Analyst- JOB ID-772

Status : OpenWestCorp Solutions is searching for an experienced Project Controls Analyst to support our Client in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

This position will be providing cost management, change management, progress and performance analysis, forecasting and reporting with focus on timeliness and accuracy.

The successful candidate will meet the below requirements :

• As a professional, you will be responsible to develop, maintain and continuously improve all aspects of Cost Control, forecasting, change management and reporting for the successful PC service on the project.
• Responsible to understand and follow the Standards, Procedures, Templates and Specifications.
• Managing commitments, actual costs, and allocations against budget and warded values.
• Calculating incurred costs and developing / maintaining the incurred cost forecast (ICF).
• Performing cost variance, trend analysis and root cause analysis.
• Developing and producing project cost reporting requirements.
• Completing progressive closeout of cost closeout and benchmarking deliverables.
• Maintaining the project change log, initiate coordinate, and manage Project Change Notices.
• Understanding the project baseline and control budget including scope definition, estimate costs workforce hours, schedule dates and durations and execution strategies to facilitate immediate decisions on project change.
• Alerting the Project Controls Manager of potential or real deviations from the control budget as early as possible to enable development and implementation of mitigation or recovery measures.
• Providing supporting backup and explanations for all identified changes.
• Working closely with all Integrated Team members, be proactive and resolve any identified concerns or issues.
• Progressive closeout as project milestones are completed, , POs and NWA. Set up metrics / KPIs and report in CT / MESR.
• Executing the PC Closeout plan, complete and obtain approval for the final Closeout report, provide benchmarking data as per plan.

Qualifications :

• A post-secondary graduation degree, and Cost skills certification is must.
• Excellent computer skills, MS Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook); Experience in Powe BI, analytical tool, and SAP S4 is added asset.
• Minimum 8-10 years of Project Controls experience in the oil and gas sector out of which 3-5 years at site working with Contractor.
• EPC and Owner experience a definite asset.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of fundamental Project Management and Project Controls principles and processes.
• Thorough understanding of the PC Standards & Procedures as they apply to managing and reporting project cost, schedule, and progress & performance.
• Basic understanding of project execution concepts, including scope of work and execution strategies.
• Basic understanding of the ADEM (Asset Development & Execution Model) processes and terminology.
• General knowledge of the Primavera P6 tool with the ability to transpose data in Excel for reporting purposes.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative self-starter with the ability to multi-task and analyze information to resolve issues with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively present information to diverse groups.
• Ability to innovate, challenge the status quo, and adapt to changing situations using data.
• Ability to identify and solve problems using a variety of standard methods; demonstrates sound judgement in selecting, classifying, and analyzing data from a variety of sources.
30+ days ago