Project Control & Cost Engineer
Rio Tinto
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :15 years, 1 أشهر
Provide proactive cost and change management support to the delivery teams within Sustaining Capital group. Currently responsible for portfolio reporting of 3 Rio Tinto’s Smelting sites (Gladstone, Tasmania, New Zealand). Direct reporting to Project Services Manager and provide proactive cost and change management support to the delivery teams across multiple projects for Pacific Operations (Aluminium) projects - OPEX & CAPEX. Daily interaction and forming relationships with internal and external stakeholders at a project level. Role and responsibilities • Functional duties for the daily implementation of project cost and change management across regional programs of projects. This will include: establishing budget, change management, contingency management, cost risk management, cash flow forecast schedule estimates, costs analysis to provide guidance on the final forecast cost, review and valuation of progress payments and reporting. • Assist Project Leads/Managers in managing the Owners cost, provide feedback on projects costs deviation from forecast/plan and alignment to the cost management processes. • Proactively raise areas of concern to the Project Controls Lead and Project Leaders/Managers for potential cost overrun
• Report and provide cost analysis support on assigned Delivery portfolio and on individual projects. • Ensure compliance to the project controls guidelines and procedures • Manage cost assessments and carry out valuations on larger projects, and ensure timely and accurate cost validation, and valuation process. • Project Capitalisation exercise for completed and commissioned project • Facilitate project review meetings and update cost management tools and systems (SAP & BUCS). • Assists in maintaining the integrity of integrated project cost reports • Supports development of regular cost and change management reports, including professional analysis and commentaries. • Assist in the development and update of project cash flow forecasting and estimates at completion. • Maintains the relationship with contracting and project planning stakeholders to provide an informed forecast of the project. • Work with the planners/schedulers, contracts and estimating groups to ensure that implications of changes are well articulated and understood. • Assists with analysing and reporting implications of changes to the Annual Plan and forecast. • Provides technical support to project stakeholders • Providing an independent assessment of the projects progress and estimate at completion.
• Coach and develop Cost Control Admins & new starters to optimise performance and. • Manage team resourcing and utilisation to ensure key functional responsibilities and project goals are met. • Assist Cost Controllers with their day to day roles, in particular assisting with the more complex and critical works. • Provide assistance to the Project and Development Teams in other ad-hoc areas outside of the Cost Controllers normal responsibilities. • Maintain processes and procedures for the Cost Control Team and ensure all quality documentation is fit for purpose in a lean and low cost environment. • Responsible for continual development of system and tools to increase productivity and drive down cost. • Review all project documentation prior to submission, including monthly report deliverables, quarterly report deliverables and other reporting requirements. • Responsible for operation and maintenance of the PRISM G2 Software within the Development Group. • Work with Estimators in compiling project estimates, including attending and providing input into Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis reviews. • Responsible for maintaining a quality system for record keeping, electronic filing, archiving for the relevant scopes of work, etc. • Keep the Development Leadership Team fully informed on cost control related matters so timely decisions can be made based on the best available information. • Proactively contribute to Santos’ continuous improvement and innovative project management processes through participation and implementation of formal lessons learned. Senior Cost Controls Responsibilities • Convert sanctioned estimate into a control budget, including system setup in SAP and PRISM G2 to comply with the standard WBS / CBS and project reporting requirements. • Monitoring and control of costs associated with the Project Indirects and Owner’s Team, including manpower, accommodation, vehicle usage, air travel, security, etc. • Monitoring and control of major supplier / vendor costs including CTR management, cost validation and invoice processing/payment. • Support the Contracts and Procurement Team during tender and contract setup to ensure alignment with Santos and contract requirements, including progress measurement, payment claim analysis and invoice processing. • Monitoring and control of costs associated with the Construction Contractor and provide assistance to the Project Team to ensure work and payment complies with the contract. • Setup and maintain the project’s trend program to provide an accurate cost forecast. This includes timely and accurate trending to enable an early warning system for cost increases and minimise the risk of cost overruns. Includes working with the team to estimate impacts of trends and variations. • Monitor and manage the project’s cost and reporting in SAP and Prism. • Month end cost and reporting, including accruals, cost and system reconciliation. • Responsible for managing the project MOC process and the management of outcomes, for example schedule requirements, cost impacts, scope, etc. • Work closely with project functions/disciplines (Approvals, Engineering, Contract & Procurement, Construction, Commissioning and Operations) to ensure alignment with project controls. Reporting • Compile periodic reporting on project work scopes including monthly project reporting, quarterly project reviews and additional ad-hoc reporting requirements. • Ensure reports contain accurate progress updates in relation to the project’s status, including EHS, Approvals, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Start-Up of Field Delivery scope in accordance with agreed formats and timeframes. • Liaising with project team representatives, off-project disciplines/functions and contractors to ensure accuracy of reporting.
Responsible for managing and controlling costs & commitments on iPipe Services projects under MSA with Arrow Energy. Day to day responsibilities & accountabilities include but not limited to: • Co-ordinate and development of monthly claims based on monthly progress claim measure up Development and issue of Client Invoices on receipt of Payment Certificate via Procon (Check claim vs PC) • Maintain original and current contract value, approve / raise variations(PCN’S) in Cost System (Workbench) • Maintain claim / invoice status (submitted, invoiced, paid) in the Cost System • Participate in accrual and forecasting process monthly • Forecast Cost and Revenue in line with schedule data and % complete • Interface with iPipe Services finance on cashflow and forecast variances • Run monthly cost report & Labour Curves to PCM and PM monthly • Review cost code and budget prior to Budget Owner and or DOA approval, identify variances to budget in preparation for monthly forecast • Communicate the required supporting documentation required for PCN / Variation submission and validation checks on key documents ensure accuracy • Develop Submit PCN/Variation in consultation with the site team • Communicate approved PCN’s / Variation Orders from the Client • Establish and Manage Trend Register for forecast input • Review committed costs against cost budget, highlighting potential over-runs/underruns, close out of unnecessary PO’s • Run fortnightly labour, material, equipment, and subcontract reports • Run Level 3 Cost Reports to Construction Manager and Superintendent • Cost Analysis of Data monthly • Red flag and alerts on potential issues
Responsible for the full range of cost control and cost reporting requirement for Solar farm Projects delivery in QLD under EPC and O&M contract. Management, forecasting and reporting of CAPEX costs of project sites. Commercial support for the Head contract and claims assessment / reconciliation of payment milestones. Day to day responsibilities & accountabilities include but not limited to: • Preparation of monthly cost forecast and variance reports for the project infrastructure / construction • Contact Administration on major vendor payment claims • Allocation of contractor costs to relevant assets or work packages • Close co-operation with the business analysts for financial reporting • Review and develop estimates for scope and trend changes; promote value and importance of trending / project change management and timeliness in raising and dealing with trends • Liaise with senior management, procurement & engineering discipline leads to prepare work package estimates and perform cost control on the approved works • Progress measurement based on engineering and construction deliverables (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and remediation works)
Responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining project cost control procedures in line with Australia Pacific LNG policies and procedures ensuring that all required cost reporting, cost-planning integration, contractors cost reporting and change management requirements occur; act as the interface with other assets and project areas in relation to budget, reporting and forecasting. In charge for the coordination of cost reporting and cost control planning and team meetings. Principal accountabilities for Asset Services & Operations: • Implementation, supervision and approval of project cost control processes. • Liaise with Project Managers, clients and subcontractors to achieve project budgets. • Responsible for all interfacing requirements within other project areas for budget reporting and forecasting. • Manage contractors cost control systems, methods and procedures for monitoring, analysing, forecasting and controlling contractor and company capital and expense costs; ensure contractors issue regular cost reports. • Ensure the tracking of the progress of cost against budget and schedules and Project Managers are made aware of any potential project cost changes and deviations from budget. • Interpret cost and schedule data for forecasting purposes; provide cost variance analysis; and create and issue regular cost project reports and ensure updates and amendments are made as required. • Work with the cost control team to implement cost control and invoice process systems. Develop and implement improved cost control techniques and methods. • Ensure the effective implementation and use of PRISM G2 with P6 Integration and Oracle programs. • Exposure to manage projects lifecycle using CA Clarity - a Project Portfolio Management • Ensure data collection by the cost control team and scheduler is precise and inputted into Primavera P6 systems regularly. • Work with the Lead Planner to ensure best application of integrated project control
Primary responsibility is working with project controls team supporting Rio Tinto on the EPCM for Oyu Tolgoi Underground Mining project in Mongolia. Monitor, forecast, control and manage changes to project CAPEX budget, actual and forecast costs through the implementation of agreed project cost management procedures that align/reflect the Client’s processes Heavily involved in the Engineering & Procurement activities while supporting the Project Services functions in cost management, change management and reporting needs as required. Operational accountabilities include but not limited to: • Respond to Client requests for information subject to Project protocols • Develop, coordinate, make presentations to project and/or Client personnel • Maintain/update the Project Cost database (PRISM) for all project costs • Allocate budget to Contracts and Purchase Orders through the use of Capital Appropriation Requests (CAR’s) • Allocate budget to Contracts and Purchase Order Variation through the use of Contract Variation Requests (CVAR’s) and CAR revisions as necessary. • Maintain the integrity of the CAR register • Manage, track, forecast, report CAR status to meet project milestones. Convene expediting meetings as required. • Actively support the Project Change Management process to identify, develop supporting cost data for Project Change Notifications related to Budget Changes.
Project based assignments on various multi- phase construction projects within DECMIL’s portfolio focusing on administrative, Major Works Subcontract (Design & Construct), and financial closeout and finalizing all project activities. • Assist and contributes to monthly Project Cost Report in the area of contract valuation summary, risk & opportunity, forecast and actual costs • Perform contract closure activities to the agreements established for the project - dispute resolutions and remediation, release of deeds for final payment & collateral warranties • Establish and publish the deadline date for the completion of all financial transactions and closing of financial accounts • Income statement reports for DECMIL projects in Australia & PNG - Revenues, Expenses, Assets & Income Net / Loss • Assist with gaps and risks analysis to enable management to prioritize future investment. • Verify that all acceptance criteria in the Statement of Work have been met prior to payments to vendors and consultants • Verify that there are any outstanding invoices or unresolved financial obligations • Comply with funding source requirements for retention records and financial reporting
Responsible for the full range of cost control and cost reporting requirements for projects within Pipeline Compression & Interconnect Facilitie
- Lead the development of standards processes and procedures in relation to cost control, develop and implement improved cost control techniques and methods
- Develop budgets to support portfolio management using common structures
- Compile, coordinate and generate PCIF budgets for the project, including total/annual/phase budgets and spend profiles; develop budget views and scenarios for partners and Joint Ventures as required
- Preparation of monthly Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP) and cost forecast to meet project management needs
- Develop monthly project cost reports and ad hoc reporting request for management review, highlighting approved and potential trends and progress this into PCN within the Change Management System
- Assist with budgeting processes including defining cost metrics, recasting estimates into control budgets; develop the project budget code of accounts consistent with the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Liaise with Project Controls Leads, clients and subcontractors to achieve project budgets, reporting, forecasting and analysis requirements.
- Develop, plan and conduct audits and reviews of contractor cost systems and develop forecasts
- Define progress measurement auditing programs and in turn lead audits on contractors’ progress measurement systems
- Prepare contingency drawdown profiles under guidance and identify risks leading to cost
- Develop and implement capture of cost data to support claim negotiations; implement and maintain historical cost databases and establish cost metrics
- Provide support on contracting issues related to cost forecast, invoicing and payment and understand contract terms and conditions. Coordinate with the contracts team to ensure that Approved Contract Value (ACV), Commitment Authorisation Forms (CAF) and Purchase Orders (PO) are completed in a timely manner to ensure that contract payment terms can be met
- Responsible for the implementation and management of the Project Change Management Process for the Pipeline Compression Interconnect Facilities (PCIF) sub-project in relation to cost and schedule issues. This included reviewing, registering, processing, tracking, development of registers and communicating the changes within the PCIF sub-projects and wider APLNG project
- Updating budget allocations on Origin’s Oracle Cost Data System, Project Change Notification (PCN) and PRISM Cost Control Systems
- Understand WBS requirements throughout the project life cycle, including historical database coding/structure, benchmarking and financial structures
- Trend preparation, change order processes, review and analysis of cost estimates, review trend packages and communicate these back to Project Management
- Review and develop estimates for scope and trend changes; promote value and importance of trending/project change management and timeliness in raising and dealing with trends
- Review contracts and assist in formulating cost control requirements; analyse contractor claims and assess cost entitlements; Provide guidelines and checks drawdown profiles and risk exposure
- Validate engineering, procurement and construction progress, analyse progress, quantity and resource tracking curves and in turn identify issues
- Correlate decisions and actions to project cost outcomes in QRA
- Interpret cost and schedule data for forecasting purposes; provide cost variance analysis; and create and issue regular cost project reports and ensure updates and amendments are made as required
- Ensure effective communication that promotes understanding and support at all levels, present information and ideas in a manner appropriate to the audience
- Attend Project Controls meetings and Cost Control team meetings as required
- Provide input into Quality Assurance processes and ensure requirements are met
I am responsible for day to day cost management within Upstream Owners Cost in the area of Infrastructure & Road, Compression & Power, Gathering & Trunklines. In charge of gaining approval and implement relevant processes and procedures, establish budgets from the approved cost estimations, communicate with accountants to ensure accurate invoices are sent, allocate and reconcile expenditure from accounting.
- Responsible for compilation of the functional budgets, implementation and maintenance of the cost and cost reporting.
- Consistent cost reporting standards by monitoring the cost, progress, and schedule and conduct analyses to come up with independent forecasts for internal reporting.
- Management and control of the Owners project budget.
- Record and monitor all project commitments and spending (including project personnel, third party contracts, corporate overheads).
- Manage the monitoring and forecasting of costs (contractors and in-house) highlight problems and recommend remedial action (Manpower Plan)
- Liaise with all managers/budget holders to ascertain costs and schedule impact of trends and changes.
- Liaise with Upstream Cost Manager to communicate performance against milestones.
- Preparation of data for monthly and regular costing reporting.
- Supervision of trend and scope change programme.
- Report progress, trends, variations and efficiency
- Advice to the Project Controls Manager and Project team of results of analysis of cost data.
- Monitor and maintain the EPCM and management forecasts (WorleyParsons CM budget & third party vendors).
- Regular costs reviews and prepare data for Reporting.
- Prepare detailed commitment and cash flows
- Prepare funding requests (PCR).
- Ensure effective interface /liaison with the accounting system.
- Allocate budgets and liaise with the project team.
- Coordinate with the Project accountant to ensure the proper coding of invoices to ensure the correct billing.
- Receive allocate and reconcile monthly project expenditure from Accounting.
- Ensure all costs reflect the project WBS and AFE funding strategy.
- Identify and reflect changes in costs in all Owners cost reports and project schedule.
- Review scope changes and Trends
- Establish monthly accruals for work in progress (value of work earned) and liaise with accounting / Finance
Project Performance Standards:
• Develop cost estimating templates and standard work scope documents
• Oversee processing of related invoices and monitoring of paid costs
• Maintain & analyze the Cost Report System for the project
• Maintain & managing Project Master Schedule
• Analyse, evaluate, and forecast current status vs. baseline schedule
• Accumulates and accesses historical data; e.g. performance experience, for use in maintaining a realistic basis for future planning and forecasting
• Produce project documentations (Project timelines & Gantt Charts, Flow diagram, and Breakdown structures)
• Develop estimates for trends and scope changes (MoC)
• Managing project schedule priority
• Develop a plan detailing approach and timeframes to meet schedule
• Verify & analyse the impact of multiple projects on outages and resource requirements
• Develop and maintain project files
• Create weekly report for project status and resources distribution
• Monitoring and report deliverables status expended and controlling the project by updating relevant area (communication, time, change)
• Identify and communicate with the stakeholders to ascertain course of action (Procurement)
• Liaise with stakeholders to obtain updates status reports
• Data analysis and research for projects, including gathering and manipulating data
• Assist in document control duties: Insure accuracy and completeness of master data (resource information, resource code, project structure, licensing/policy)
Resource Management:
• Support Resource Analyst team on internal stakeholder management
• Evaluate resource distribution status and requests to align with client’s requirements and projected plans for resource utilisation
• Data collection for Historical Resources
• Measuring and reporting unauthorised use of resources
• Maintains online directory to be converted into a tool for system administrators
• Resource quality assurance (Bogon filtering, Access Control Lists (ACLs), BGP Black holing)
• Support team locally and in certain other regions
Vacation Work
• Designed and customized telecommunications solutions in areas as Voip, CDMA, networking, information security, and data services.
• Provided assistance and support to Network Operation Centre and Internet technical support team.
Vacation Work
National Electrical Power Supply Company - INDONESIA
Administered, monitored, supported and operated SCADA remote controller platforms in Power Distribution unit which ensure the stability of the network and maintaining the grade of service up to the standard.
Support the field engineers for troubleshooting and diagnosing.
Designing communication for DF1 Radio Modem Protocol
Exposure to SCADA controllers (Micrologix 1000, SLC 500 w/ 1747-KE, RSLinx Classic)