Senior Cost Engineer at NigerDock

Job Description
The prime function of this role will be to support the development of a structured, consistent and accurate cost control, reporting and estimation for a surface facilities project.

Other key Responsibilities will be to:

• Provide support to individual Project team members in establishing and maintaining up to date project cost engineering deliverables and related supporting documents including variance analysis of cost over/under runs
• Monitor expenditure monthly on a Value of Work Done (VOWD) basis for the project to produce cost forecasts (latest estimates), to provide timely notification of potential over/under-runs against approved budgets
• Produce monthly/quarterly/annual variance and trend analysis expenditure reports and explain key cost movements with respect to commitments, actuals (VOWD basis), latest estimates against plan as agreed with the Project Manager
• Produce deliverables to support PE's/PM's by establishment and maintenance of cost progress S-curves (inclusive of actuals, forecasts, and commitments) for the on-going project - prepare overall project summary reports on the same basis
• Produce cost reports and presentations suitable for management (monthly, quarterly and annually) as required, giving planned, actual and forecast costs, for on-going project.
• Ensure compliance with corporate cost engineering procedures as applied to the project.
• Capture and highlight costs resulting from the change control procedure

Desired Skills and Experience

• Minimum of eight years' experience within an oil and gas industry facilities engineering project controls environment
• Tertiary technical qualification is essential.
• Strong communication skills in English
• PC Literate in MS Windows, Excel, MS Office
• Technical professional with in depth project fabrication engineering, ideally in jackets and topsides/construction experience and knowledge of project controls requirements.
• Good team player with a pro-active and flexible attitude, and able to work in a challenging environment, with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to communicate at professional engineer level and thus draw together the best information into a multi discipline package for the project.
• Mature person with cultural sensitivity