Senior Planning Engineer
Role Overview
Provide cost and estimating management, leadership, and support for project activities.
Oversee EPC contractor budget, cost, estimating, progress measurement, and forecasting in alignment with project objectives.
Support the Project Controls Manager and provide functional support to PMC and Owner teams.
Support safe, sustainable, on-time, within-budget project delivery and handover.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Worley
Worley is a global energy, chemicals, and resources company headquartered in Australia.
The company delivers consulting, engineering, procurement, and construction services across the asset lifecycle, including operations and decommissioning.
Job purpose and scope
Provide cost and estimating management, leadership, and support for project activities.
Oversee EPC contractor budget, cost, estimating, progress measurement, and forecasting in alignment with project objectives.
Support the Project Controls Manager and provide functional support to PMC and Owner teams.
Support safe, sustainable, on-time, within-budget project delivery and handover.
Project controls and delivery
- Review contractor work breakdown structure, measurement factors, project schedules, and phase sequencing.
- Monitor and control project costs, schedules, deliverables, programs, progress, and productivity.
- Verify payment requests, milestone achievements, invoices, and supporting progress evidence.
- Review project business plans, execution strategies, operating budgets, and cost forecasts.
- Assess contractor invoices, progress measurements, forecasts, and subcontractor reporting submissions.
- Evaluate change orders and claims for scope, cost, and schedule impacts; recommend approval, modification, or rejection.
Reporting, finance, and close-out
- Prepare project cost reports showing expenditure, commitments, and forecast contractor payments.
- Review cost reports and cash flow, monitor budgets and exchange rates, and monitor cash flow in multiple currencies.
- Support funding drawdown forecasts, financial agreements, audits, payment administration, and financial close-out.
- Maintain change order registers and associated cost records; review updated budget estimates and prepare cost control reports.
- Participate in progress reporting, trend analysis, risk reviews, constructability reviews, and value engineering.
- Support contract close-out, performance evaluation, and continuous improvement of PMC procedures.
Qualifications and experience
- Relevant engineering bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification from an accredited university.
- At least 15 years of relevant oil and gas or petrochemical industry experience.
- At least 3 years in a similar position on major international oil and gas or petrochemical projects.
- FEED, EPC, and offshore project experience are required.
- At least 5 years of GCC experience, PMC role experience, and ADNOC project experience are preferred.
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