Senior Cost Control Engineer (Oil & Gas Pipeline EPC)

Role summary

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or equivalent.
• Minimum 10–12 years of total EPC project cost-control experience and at least 5 years on oil and gas pipeline projects.
• Previous experience as a Cost Control Manager or Lead Cost Engineer on major EPC projects.
• Contractor-side EPC experience is mandatory; strong Excel capability is mandatory.
• Middle East experience is preferred; ERP, SAP, or Oracle cost-system experience is preferred.

Cost systems, budgets, and reporting

• Establish and maintain project cost control from approved contract value through final account.
• Develop a cost breakdown structure aligned with the work breakdown structure and execution schedule.
• Establish budgets for engineering, procurement, construction, subcontractors, temporary facilities, and indirect costs.
• Maintain commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, and Estimate at Completion across cost codes.
• Prepare monthly reports covering budgets, commitments, actuals, accruals, forecasts, Estimate at Completion, variances, and cash flow.
• Identify overruns and negative trends early and recommend corrective action.

Procurement, subcontractors, and pipeline costs

• Monitor commitments against approved budgets before purchase orders or subcontract awards; ensure purchase orders are allocated to correct cost codes.
• Track subcontractor commitments, variations, progress payments, and final accounts.
• Maintain detailed pipeline construction cost control for right-of-way works, stringing, welding, NDT, coating, trenching, lowering-in, backfilling, crossings, tie-ins, hydrotesting, and reinstatement.
• Maintain separate cost visibility for GCS/FMS, pigging facilities, valve stations, and other station works.
• Track labor, equipment, and material costs against construction productivity; compare actual unit rates with tender and budget rates.
• Monitor manpower and equipment utilization and identify idle or inefficient resources.

Forecasting, change, and commercial controls

• Align forecasts with Planning's latest schedule and remaining durations, and support Earned Value Management.
• Prepare and update monthly cash-flow forecasts using progress, procurement commitments, and schedule changes.
• Monitor indirect costs and site overheads against budget and maintain contingency and management reserve records where applicable.
• Evaluate cost impacts of changes, variations, additional work, and client instructions; support Contracts and Commercial with variation orders and claims.
• Maintain a change register of approved, pending, and potential cost exposure.

Revenue, payments, and close-out

• Track client certification, invoicing, and collection against contract milestones and progress; reconcile revenue, cost, and forecast margin monthly.
• Identify potential margin erosion, report causes to project management, and provide cost input for recovery plans and alternative execution scenarios.
• Prepare cost forecasts for management decisions before major procurement or construction commitments.
• Validate subcontractor and supplier payment applications against progress and contractual entitlement, and maintain accruals for work performed but not invoiced.
• Support project close-out, final cost reconciliation, and final account preparation; maintain records for audits, claims, and contractual substantiation.

Critical selection criteria

• Mandatory: oil and gas EPC, cross-country pipeline, and contractor-side cost-control experience.
• Mandatory: strong forecasting and Estimate at Completion capability, subcontract and procurement commitment control, and change or variation cost assessment.
• Mandatory: construction productivity and unit-rate analysis, and control of direct and indirect project costs.
• Must be able to work from site and challenge actual quantities, manpower, and equipment consumption rather than only prepare monthly spreadsheets.

Pay

• Pay range is QAR 10,000–25,000 per month.

Work location

• Work is in person.