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    Project Controls Advisor - Alberta, Canada - NES Fircroft

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    Job Title:
    Project Controls Advisor


    Location:
    Calgary, AB


    Schedule:
    Mon-Fri, 40 hour/week


    Start Date:
    Mid-May

    Contract Length: 1 year


    Description:

    Job Description Summary:

    The Project Controls Advisor for the Project plays a pivotal role in managing and forecasting costs, as well as meticulously detailing Primavera schedule activities for the Wells, Subsurface, and Water teams.

    Collaborating closely with contractors and the project team, this role generates and analyzes integrated project costs, forecasts, and reports.

    Utilizing adept change management strategies, including managing change, budget transfers, contingency drawdown, and trend logs, ensures the team remains informed of expected estimates at completion.

    Job

    Description:

    • Develop and maintain detailed schedule baseline packages for various Well Pads development phases in collaboration with the Subsurface, Drilling and Completion, and Water teams.
    • Implement project control procedures and continually monitor project progress, ensuring live schedules are accurately updated.
    • Prepare regular reports to monitor project key milestones, baseline dates, trends, and current targets.
    • Implement change management processes, keeping the project team informed of any deviations.
    • Identify and develop scheduling and planning requirements for pads in the Drill ready program.
    • Support benchmarking activities using Power BI, develop, review, and validate integrated detail schedules.
    • Review, validate, and challenge contractors' detailed schedules, integrating them into the master schedule.
    • Produce required accounting and project cost reports, highlighting deviations, under-runs, and over-runs.
    • Monitor project costs and commitments to budget and forecast, maintaining change control and the change order register.
    • Maintain good working relationships and facilitate communication with internal groups.
    • Administer project cost management systems and procedures, communicating plans, and initiating Project Controls systems and applications implementation
    • Establish cost codes according to the project WBS and coding philosophy, setting up original budgets in cost management applications.
    • Maintain, update, and validate information within the cost management application.
    • Monitor, review, and analyze cost reports and statuses of contractors' work throughout all project phases, devising corrective plans for any deviations.
    • Generate external and internal cost reports and time phasing of cost and cash flow table related to incurred costs and outlook forecast (EAC).
    • Collaborate with the Project team to develop the Project CAPEX appropriate for the development phase, maintaining consistency in cost bases through rigorous adherence to control processes.
    • Work with Procurement, Project Management, Scheduling, and Contractors to understand VOWD, accruals, outstanding invoices, and help resolve claims if necessary.
    • Liaise with Finance to communicate accrued costs and obtain actual costs regularly for input into the cost management application.
    • Demonstrate hands-on experience with Primavera P6 and MS Office, along with proficiency in project control principles.
    • Comfortably analyze data using Power BI and Excel tool.
    • Hold a degree in Engineering or possess equivalent cost or schedule-related experience with over 8+ years' relevant experience in Project controls in Major Capital Projects in the Oil and Gas industry, including proficiency in Scheduling, Cost Management and Procurement Tools (e.g. Primavera, Kildrummy Cost Manager (KCM), SAP S4N Hana, SMART GEP). Preference for related Project controls experience in an upstream Unconventional Oil and Gas environment.

    Selection Criteria 1:

    Functional knowledge and experience:
    Demonstrated experience in planning and scheduling oil and gas upstream projects. Actively led planning & scheduling development on a multi-functional project team. Demonstrated ability to develop and/or implement digital innovations and solutions related to Planning & Scheduling. Must be proficient in Primavera, Excel, and Power Point presentation. Demonstrated track record of delivering results on capital projects. Ability to analyze and critique project plans and schedules effectively.


    Selection Criteria 2:

    Build Relationships:

    Demonstrated ability to work as part of a multi-functional team and collaborate with multiple stakeholders in a complex project set-up and foster positive relationships.

    Strong influencing and communication skills required to be able to engage others in problem resolution and to consider problems, solutions, and changes within a multi-stakeholder environment.

    Consistently demonstrates strong communication skills to keep multiple stakeholders engaged and informed. Able to interface/work in a multi-functional project team.


    Selection Criteria 3:
    Problem Solving and

    Delivering Results:
    Demonstrated ability to proactively identify and react to needs, problems and deliver process improvement opportunities. Ability to analyze data and summarize information for ease of understanding at multiple levels. Demonstrated history of persevering through barriers and motivating others to act.


    Selection Criteria 4:

    Grow Capabilities:

    Demonstrated ability to adapt and proactively learn within a dynamic project environment in addition to being a positive influence on developing other skillsets.

    Ability to adjust behaviors based on feedback and willingness to provide feedback to others. Encourage new ideas and open to adapt to change.
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    With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide.

    With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed.

    We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.



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