Project Controls Manager
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About This Role
Overview
- **Requisition ID:** **294006**
- **Relocation Authorized:** **International - Single**
- **Telework Type:** **Full-Time Office/Project**
- **Work Location: Riyadh**
- Extraordinary teams building inspiring projects:
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Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact.
We serve the Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals, and the Manufacturing and Technology markets.
Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations.
Core to Bechtel is our Vision, Values and Commitments.
They are what we believe, what customers can expect, and how we deliver.
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The Ar Rjum Project comprises a green field gold project with three open pit mining operations with associated waste dumps and ore stockpile, a processing plant, tailings management facilities, and supporting infrastructure including water supply, power supply, maintenance facilities, offices, temporary and permanent accommodation village.
The Project is situated within the Central Arabian Gold Region, approximately 200 km north-east of Taif towards Riyadh and about 26 km South of Al Mouwayh, which is a small town situated on the Jeddah - Riyadh highway.**Job Summary:**
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The project controls manager oversees cost estimating, analysis, and control activities for one or more delivery teams.
Supervises schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, impact identification, and recovery plan development activities.
Supervises the preparation and presentation of estimates.
Supports project organizational and administrative activities.
Identifies, examines, and provides innovative solutions to cost engineering and planning/scheduling problems.
Provides generally non-routine cost engineering/planning and scheduling guidance to projects.
Reports to and receives technical guidance and operational supervision from designated supervisory personnel.
Provides technical and operational direction to assigned personnel.
Ensures work is completed as scheduled.
Maintains relationships with the Project Manager and project personnel, particularly individual discipline group leaders and engineers.
Continuing contacts with Project Manager, project team members, and working and supervisory level personnel of other departments.
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- Provides comments and recommendations for planning and scheduling/cost engineering requirements relative to staffing and project control. Prepares detailed staffing plans for planning and scheduling/cost engineering activities
- Reviews or assists in reviewing proposal provisions related to schedule/cost engineering and material control, and develops supporting data for contract negotiations.
- Identifies cost trends and schedule impacts for management attention.
- Interfaces with designated Bechtel management and client counterparts for specific planning and schedule tasks/cost presentations.
- Prepares and presents cost engineering/estimating/planning and scheduling information to management/client.
- Coordinates information input into specific studies. Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification. Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion.
- Coordinates and establishes scoping requirements for the overall cost estimate by discipline or other specialty, and coordinates the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data. Reviews design scope criteria and quantities for completeness and reasonableness, and coordinates with the project to develop additional estimating bases when information is incomplete. Establishes the conceptual scope of estimates and studies when definition is not available.
- Plans, coordinates, and establishes level of quantification appropriate to the objectives of the effort and to the level of scope definition for each discipline or specialty, and designates reference job(s) for source data and/or reconciliations of quantities. Reviews quantities and their completeness and reasonableness.
- Supervises the timely and competent preparation of cost estimates. Establishes format and content of summaries and reconciliations, including segregation of cost according to level of confidence and identification of areas of risk.
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- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
- 25 years of total experience, Minimum 20 years professional experience in project controls with emphasis on cost and project estimating.
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- Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, including schedule development, control, and analysis, and cost engineering functions, including cost estimating, cost control, financial reporting systems, and cost analysis, in the field and the home office.
- Knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and nontechnical personnel.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present cost engineering and cost estimating products. This includes planning and scheduling products independently with minimal supervision using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical planning and scheduling skills and engineering design and construction practices.
- Skilled in oral and written communication.
- Demonstrates an advanced level of understanding of general Project Controls technical skills.
- Advanced level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes, as performed by Bechtel.
- Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
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For decades, Bechtel has worked to inspire the next generation of employees and beyond!
Because our teams face some of the world's toughest challenges, we offer robust benefits to ensure our people thrive.
Whether it is advancing careers, delivering programs to enhance our culture, or providing time to recharge, Bechtel has the benefits to build a legacy of sustainable growth.
Diverse teams build the extraordinary:
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As a global company, Bechtel has long been home to a vibrant multitude of nationalities, cultures, ethnicities, and life experiences.
This diversity has made us a more trusted partner, more effective problem solvers and innovators, and a more attractive destination for leading talent.
We are committed to being a company where every colleague feels that they belong-where colleagues feel part of "One Team," respected and rewarded for what they bring, supported in pursuing their goals, invested in our values and purpose, and treated equitably.
***Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Applicants with a disability, who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, may e-mail their request to*** **acesstmt@bechtel.com**
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