Project Controls Advisor - Cost

The Company:
Our Client is an International Oil and Gas Operator involved in 2 of Australia's largest LNG Projects based in Western Australia. Spending more than 20 years building a culture of safety and environmental stewardship that strives to achieve world-class performance, our client places the highest of priority on developing a strong safety focused culture.

The Role:
A new opportunity has arisen on a 12 month contract basis within the Project Services team focused within operations and maintenance.

The role will be responsible for he following:
• Responsible for the coordination of the project cost control activities, including compliance with company policies and procedures, development and maintenance of controls systems to support contracting strategies, and contract administration.
• Possesses the capability and experience to develop Project Controls Plans.
• Evaluates and recommends appropriate Project Controls systems and coordinates resources to set up these systems.
• Establishes and maintains interfaces with key stakeholders of the projects, and provides accurate and timely Project Controls reports.
• May provide supervision of less experienced Project Controls staff.
• Produces or oversees production of cost reports detailing budgets, approved changes, commitments, and forecasts from available information and historical trend analysis.
• Coordinate the development of the 5 year Operations and Maintenance with the contractors and provide input to a 3 year forecast to the Business Plan
• Facilitate the Operations and Maintenance engagement sessions with JV Partners for the respective Operating Asset
• Responsible for the QA and integrity of the data submitted
• Provide a proactive cost management service to stakeholders
• Support any risk analysis of the Budget data if needed
• Provide Operations forecasting of approved funds
• Support the development and consolidation of the internal and external Operations Performance Reporting
• Assist with ad hoc requests from LNG Operations Support Department and Operations Leadership Operations

Essential Skills / Qualifications:
• Strong track record within a cost function where you have been working within the Operations and Maintenance space
• Experienced in working on major capital projects in the LNG sector