Cost Control Lead

We currently have an opportunity for a Cost Control Lead role. This position is based in Qatar Onshore

 
Minimum Requirements
Eight (8) years’ experience in business related function or discipline, including four (4) years in the Oil & Gas Industry, and including 1 year experience in a supervisory or acting role, or oversight of contractor/subcontractors/service/vendor personnel.
Experience with Oil & Gas Companies, EPC contractors, sub-contractors, vendors or service companies involved in the Oil and Gas Industry.
Knowledge in project business related functions/discipline such as planning, scheduling, cost control , estimating, claim management, risk management, change management, procurement, pre-and post-award contract management, actionable and informative reporting, support services, lessons learned etc.
Previous experience on major projects, from an Owner’s perspective, managing EPC Lump Sum Contracts, working with multi – lingual contracts teams with large local subcontractors and mentoring Developers is required. Knowledge of Qatar LNG practices, process and expectations with respect to cost control is desirable.
Experience is required in working with ERP systems and Project Management systems (such as SAP or any other O&G ERP).

Provide executive-level professional advice and guidance in the strategic allocation, planning, funding governance, and macro-level stewardship of costs and expenditures for the T4&T6 Restoration Project across all project phases.
Develop, endorse, and maintain high-level Project Controls governance frameworks, funding approval guidelines, and standard macro-reporting procedures to ensure full visibility of project cost efficiency and baseline protection.
The T4&T6 Restoration Project is a high-visibility, fast-tracked brownfield asset repair initiative operating under intense schedule and budget constraints. The project utilizes a complex dual-commercial structure, combining hourly reimbursable scopes for Phase 1 with a fixed-price EPC framework for Phase 2. Because field execution run continuously to meet aggressive deadlines, a massive volume data is generated daily. This data must be tracked and analysed in real-time to protect shareholder funding and maintain absolute financial integrity. Consequently, the role requires managing intricate multi-million-dollar budget models, tracking complex cost logs, and identifying trends daily.
Major challenges include (i) operating in a dynamic team environment in a highly visible project with large capital expenditure and significant schedule execution pressures and (ii) delivering accurate and flawless performance in respect to safety, quality, cost and schedule demonstrating multi-tasking, flexibility and initiative to meet evolving business needs.
Ensure cost data integrity, labour verification, and financial status reporting across all assigned Time & Resources, and Lump Sum EPC contract packages, ensuring that actual hours, equipment utilization, and fixed-price expenditures compiled and reported to provide project management with absolute visibility on cost efficiency and performance.
Provide expert guidance to Project Cost Engineers assigned across both T&R and EPC packages, ensuring a standardized project control practice regarding daily headcount monitoring, actual man-hours expended, Value of Work Done (VOWD) reporting, trend/contingency management, and expenditures allocation.
Support the Business Division Manager by leading the quantitative financial, resource, and budget input into Funding Packages (e.g., Advance Commitments, Full Funding, Supplementary Funding), recommending strategic budget reallocations to ensure Project Cost at Completion remains strictly aligned with approved funding thresholds across all project phases
Development of Forecast cost estimates and preparation of annual Work Program and Budget (WP&B) taking full consideration of project scope, progress achieved and pending to complete scope.
Develop and maintain the project’s Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS), ensuring they are optimized to track, segregate, and control hourly reimbursable expenditures independently from fixed-price EPC milestone elements across the overall project scope.
Execute rigorous monitoring, verification, and auditing of Contractor deliverables, timesheets, progress claims, and VOWD submissions. Systematically track both FEED/EPC cost performance and contractor labour productivity indexes by cross-referencing hours claimed against actual physical progress achieved (Earned Value Analysis).
Advise Head Project Controls and Project Leadership immediately of any adverse resource burn rates, operational inefficiencies, potential cost issues, or budget overruns. In conjunction with project leadership, proactively develop and implement timely cost recovery plans, labour optimization strategies, and corrective actions to mitigate project cost exposure.
Steward project commitments, trends, and budget allocations; evaluate the financial impact of proposed variations, labour rate adjustments, or extended overtime against the approved cost baseline to ensure all changes are economically justified before steering them through formal financial approval workflows.
Implement and manage robust in-house cost and resource tracking solutions to systematically validate contractor time-writing data against independent site metrics (such as gate-access logs) while ensuring the absolute accuracy, integrity, and consistency of overall project cost reporting.
Provide financial and cost-estimation support during pre-award tender phases; evaluate contractor commercial rate structures, benchmark labour cost models against market data, and perform financial sensitivity analyses to assist the procurement committee in commercial bid evaluations.
 
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Commercial , Marketing, Sciences, Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Law, Communication, Technologies, Mathematics, and Statistics.
 



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