Job summary
Entity:
Production & Operations
Job Family Group:
Project Management Group
Job Description:
About us:
bp Technical Solutions India (TSI) centre in Pune, aims to build on bp's existing engineering and technical strengths to deliver high quality services to its hydrocarbons and new energy businesses worldwide. TSI brings together diverse engineering capability to provide technical services across a range of areas including engineering, maintenance, optimization, data processes, projects and subsurface, to deliver safe, affordable, and lower emission energy, while continuously innovating how we work.
About The Role:
The role is responsible providing cost management leadership; ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of cost management and management of change; continuously improving the cost management strategy, plans and procedures; and satisfying BP requirements and the expectations of stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Responsible to lead and manage day to day functioning of the cost Engineers for Turnaround (TARs) portfolio
Support the preparation and implementation of the work breakdown structure (WBS); ensuring understanding of the broader scope across all stages.
Support the set-up of appropriate control budgets from the TAR estimate and schedule, ensuring full understanding of estimate basis, scope, schedule, contracting strategy and execution plan.
Support the overall change management (trending and MoC) process; ensuring it is rigorously applied to all changes and that impacts are fully assessed and incorporated into TAR cost forecasts, project plans and budgets.
Ensure that data collected from TAR team(s) and contractors (progress, changes, and risks) is used to underpin the cost forecast assumptions, phasing and control budgets.
Support the cost related communication plans, interfaces and the reporting system that provides the leadership team and stakeholders with timely analysis and insights for all work scope.
Closely monitor cost performance against realistic targets to ensure that objectives and key performance indicators are met.
Help identify risks and cost reduction opportunities and uncertainties.
Prepare final cost reports and financial closeout documentation, reconciliations, and reports
Adhere to the principles outlined in the TAR controls governing documents.
Supports project and TAR cost control training to non-practitioners
Supports onboarding of cost engineers
Directs agency cost engineers in support of the site
Performs assurances in accordance with the TARs common process
Supports the evaluation of TARs against internal and external metrics and benchmarks to demonstrate the competitiveness of the project
Supports Turnarounds benchmarking
Supports TARs FEL assessments
What you will need to be successful
Must have educational qualifications:
Engineering or technical degree
Preferred education/certifications:
PMI, AACEIMinimum years of relevant experience:
15+ Years (+5 Years working in Oil and Gas projects)Total years of experience:
15+ Years
Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):
Demonstrated capability to manage cost controls activities on multiple projects of various sizes and complexity
Proficiency using project systems and databases, especially Microsoft Excel and SAP
Power BI, data manipulation and data visualization experience
Knowledge of schedules for aligning cost forecast
Knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM)
Strong commitment and support to safety, risk, and business goals
Strong interpersonal, organizational, teamwork, influencing, and communication skills
Awareness of agile ways of working
High level of self-motivation, proactive, with good time management skills
Good to have experiences/skills (Can be trained for learning/on-the-job):
Solid understanding of scheduling, estimating, and benchmarking.
% travel requirements: 0 to 30%, including international travel
Why join bp :
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Travel Requirement
Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
This role is eligible for relocation within country
Remote Type:
This position is not available for remote working
Skills:
Budgeting, Change control, Cost Control, Cost Forecasting, Cost Management, Earned Value Management (EVM), Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (BI) Desktop, Primavera Scheduling Software, Project Costs, Project Leadership, Project Turnarounds, SAP Tools, Strategy and business case, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
Legal Disclaimer:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation related to bp's recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.
If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.
