EOI Principal Project Control Engineer

Role overview

Cost, schedule and reporting

• Act as focal point for clients and contractor Project Controllers to align accurate cost and progress reporting with project requirements.
• Prepare planning support packages, project controls procedures, proposal schedules and CTR packs.
• Manage project CTR budgets, costs, payment plans, milestone payments and invoices.
• Prepare weekly and monthly schedule and cost reports using earned value management, including forecasts.
• Monitor milestone impacts, critical paths, slippages and float erosion; provide early warning and recommend recovery actions.

Planning, budget and change controls

• Develop and maintain project Work Breakdown Structures and aligned cost and planning control structures.
• Manage work approvals, cost-code allocation, initial budget setup and approvals.
• Forecast budgets and schedules and assess the impacts of change requests.
• Support accountants and billing specialists; assist with installation rates, norms and quantity-change impacts.
• Support earned-value progress measurement and report quantity changes and variances against baseline.
• Maintain project S-curves and histograms; create and update resource-loaded, logic-linked Gantt charts.

Coordination and risk

• Assess current and future project and programme resource needs through workload analysis.
• Coordinate project change orders and variations, follow local change processes and track changes.
• Attend client progress meetings and support cost and schedule risk analysis sessions.
• Monitor project risks and ensure controls processes and procedures are current and followed.
• Liaise with clients to support delivery to quality, time and budget requirements.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• At least 15 years of oil and gas industry experience, mainly offshore downstream.
• Proven capability in a similar position at an engineering design company.
• Previous Middle East experience is advantageous.
• Onshore or offshore oil and gas experience is sought for the office's market focus.

Benefits described

• The posting lists life insurance, end-of-service gratuity, medical insurance, an employee assistance programme and reimbursement for one relevant professional membership, registration, subscription, certification or licence.
• Wood describes meaningful industry projects, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and global professional connections.