Klosters Energy Services Limited provides asset integrity management services to Nigerian facilities across multiple industries including oil and gas, petrochemical, power, manufacturing etc. through risk-based techniques taking into account the problems of fatigue, fluid flow, corrosion, etc. Our services seek to obtain optimal solutions which strike a balance between cost and safety.
Klosters Energy Services Limited was founded to provide high level technical expert services in areas that provide much needed value within the fast growing and diversifying Nigerian economy with particular reference to the oil and gas industry.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Lead Cost Engineer
Location: Abuja
Job Description
- The Lead Cost Engineer is responsible for the establishment, implementation and management of cost control for projects.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:
- Provides cost estimation for new projects, performs project resource analysis and planning, and project financial reporting.
- Overseeing Company project budgets, work schedule and cash flow activities.
- Lead the implementation of Cost Control System for entire Company projects.
- Provide support to preparation of proposals for new contracts.
- Produce projects cost reports (monthly, quarterly and annually) as required, giving planned, actual and forecast costs, for all ongoing projects and contracts, in line with the agreed AFEs/WBS.
- Produce other ad-hoc reports on projects cost information that may be required from time to time.
- Responsible for project Controls process compliance.
- Work with other departments to ensure processes implemented conform to Governance requirements.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of industry experience which will include 2+ years of professional experience in comparable role(s) or role(s) requiring similar responsibilities
- Good understanding of the key activities involved in Project Management of oil and gas projects within both onshore and offshore environments.
- Capability to understand a commercial contract in all its parts and to extrapolate all data necessary to better understand the project.
- Capability to predict the performance of a project through the use of forecasting tools and risk and opportunity analysis.
- Capability to analyze and control activity/project revenues and costs and to monitor progress and value of work done.
- Sound knowledge and practical experience in estimating, forecasting, monitoring and reporting project costs within a project engineering environment.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs especially Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, along with the ability to influence and demonstrate confidence in communications with senior level management.
- Good working knowledge of SAP.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related discipline.
- Advanced degree or professional certification is advantage.
Personal and Team Skills
- Must be able to work with no supervision
- Excellent soft skills
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Ability to manage issues, liaise with third parties and lead a multidisciplinary team
- Team player possessing a strong work ethic.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong skills in analysis, planning, problem solving and decision making
- Self-starter, creative, team player, and positive attitude.
- Strict compliance with Company’s business ethics
- Demonstrated problem solving ability, and the ability to design and improve processes.
- Strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills are required; must have the ability to manage conflict.
- Flexibility in adjusting and reprioritizing in order to meet changing needs in a fast-paced work environment
- Attentive to detail, yet understand and apply the degree of accuracy necessary for the task at hand.
- Agile learner - able to quickly assimilate relationships between variables under analysis
- Ability to attend to multiple projects simultaneously, including time-sensitive priorities.
- Be personable, approachable and able to connect with each and every person on the team and throughout the business.
Application Closing Date
31st August, 2015.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to:
[email protected] Remember include the title "Lead Cost Engineer position" to prevent your email from being filtered out.
Note: Whilst we cannot guarantee a response to each and every application, we will endeavor to contact all successful applicants as soon as possible.