Project Controls Engineer, Capital Projects

Project

Work done for a product or program.

• Maintain the baseline budget and cost-to-complete forecasts.
• Update and analyse integrated schedules for critical path and float.
• Measure physical progress and earned value by work package.
• Track commitments, change orders and contingency drawdown.
• Produce monthly project reports for steering committees.
• Audit contractor cost and schedule submissions.
• Run trend and risk analysis for forecast completion.

Function

Work that keeps the discipline running: methods, tools, suppliers and people.

• Maintain the policies, processes and tools of the function.General
• Keep the function compliant with legal, financial and regulatory requirements.General
• Report the function's performance and improve it over time.General

Project

1. Produce and hand over the role's key deliverables
   • Cost and schedule baseline
   • Earned value and variance reports
   • Cost-to-complete forecast
   • Change and contingency log
2. Support programsGeneral
   • Agree what each program needs
   • Deliver in time for milestones
3. Manage issuesGeneral
   • Track requests to closure
   • Escalate risks

Function

1. Run the functionGeneral
   • Maintain policies and processes
   • Keep records and controls
2. ImproveGeneral
   • Report performance
   • Lead improvement work