Engineer, OpEx Project Control & Reporting

Role Summary

Roles and Responsibilities

• Act as lead architect for OEx Control Towers, designing and maintaining real-time digital dashboards that monitor portfolio health across all OEx departments.
• Consolidate complex datasets to produce weekly and monthly Industrial Performance Governance reports for the COEO and executive leadership.
• Collaborate with project managers on pre-gate cost-benefit analyses and ROI simulations to ensure only financially viable, strategically aligned projects reach Gate Approval.
• Track project progress, scope compliance, and actual CAPEX/OPEX spending against baselines, identifying fiscal variances before they become critical failures.
• Engineer data-driven mitigation plans for cost overruns and schedule slippages with SPI/CPI intervention.
• Enforce best-in-class project accounting protocols so all project managers use unified financial templates and standardized KPIs.
• Serve as internal auditor for the continuous improvement pipeline, ensuring projects are properly triggered, prioritized, and executed within the OEx framework.
• Provide data-driven insights into project risks, translating technical bottlenecks and schedule delays into financial impact projections.
• Execute post-implementation audits to verify completed projects delivered promised industrial performance and technical ROI.
• Support research and deployment of advanced project management tools such as AI analytics and automated forecasting.
• Feed the Lessons Learned repository so technical insights are structured and accessible for future industrialization cycles.

Qualification and Education

• Bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering, mechanical engineering, production engineering, or electrical engineering.
• MBA or master's degree in project management is preferred.

Experience

• Minimum of 3+ years in industrial project control, industrial engineering, or financial planning and analysis (FP&A) within a manufacturing environment in the steel industry (steel, oil and gas).

Skills

• Good technical knowledge.
• Data analytics.
• Basics of project management.
• Risk management.
• Excellent communication.
• Conceptual Lean methodology, continuous improvement, and root cause analysis.
• MS Office and ERP.