Principal Cost Estimator – Londres, Reino Unido

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver timely and accurate estimates in accordance with the approved estimating processes and systems.
• Ensure all relevant parties are fully aware of their roles and deliverables with respect to the estimating processes.
• Provide leadership and direction to the Contractor estimators.
• Participate and contribute to improving the estimating function, plus ensure integrity of data being processed.
• Manage personal workload and delivery milestones in accordance with business priorities.
• Ensure production of quality contractor estimates including application of appropriate norms, offshore allowances, unit rates etc.
• Provide early estimates in support of change control and activity prioritisation processes.
• Identify appropriate discipline resource mix and activity allowance uplifts dependant on the estimate maturity.
• Evaluate alternative estimating systems & working practices with Contractor organisations.
• Support systems benchmarking throughout the organisation and assist the implementation of best practices.
• Demonstrate visible leadership and commitment to excellent HSSE performance.
• Undertake cost and schedule quantitative risk analyses using probabilistic techniques and use this to support the estimation and management of contingencies.
• Contribute to peer assists, peer reviews and functional reviews.
• Contribute to the central knowledge base to assist in the development of best practice project controls guidelines and procedures.
• Ensure the capture of project close-out information and share to enable recycling of data to improve estimating and schedule preparation data resources.

Unique Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Attribute

• Technical professional with experience in the oil and gas or petro-chemical industry.
• Evidence of having performed well in a similar role.
• Knowledge of all phases of major oil and gas projects e.g.: FEED, Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC), Commissioning, Start-up etc, and experience of the project sanction process.
• Knowledge of major oil and gas technologies and processes, including offshore, subsea and onshore.
• Hands-on experience of using proprietary estimating tools including Questor, K-Base /CCE and similar.
• Experience of working on projects with joint venture partners.
• Experience of both brown field and green field developments.
• Educated to first degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject.
• Chartered member of a relevant discipline preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to challenge others in a constructive manner and negotiate with internal peers and partner representatives to influence plans.
• Good team player with a pro-active and flexible attitude, and able to work in a multi-cultural environment.
• Fluent in English, additional language skills would be desirable e.g. Portuguese, Spanish

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