Project Controls Manager jobs in North Dakota

About the job

We’re looking for a Manager, Project Controls  to join our Perth team.

When you work for us, you get the chance to join nearly 50,000 people all driven by a common purpose – delivering a more sustainable world. We’re excited about the challenges ahead. If you ask us, there’s never been a more rewarding time to work in the energy, chemical and resources sectors.

We offer a flexible approach to working, because our people are safer, healthier, and more productive when they can balance work with life. That’s why we offer flexible and hybrid working options, so you can choose when, where and how you work.

Who we are

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia.

Right now, we’re bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.

We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of engineering and consulting to the last stages of installation and commissioning.

Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Manager, Project Controls to join our Perth team.

The role responsibilities include:

• Responsible for ensuring the project controls (or other services) department delivers a cost and schedule effective, high standard of project controls services to all internal and external clients. Specific responsibilities includes:
• To manage, maintain and train a high-quality project controls team, to promote Worley’s project controls capability to our clients, to implement and manage Worley’s project controls systems.
• To routinely report on the cost, schedule and resource trends and forecasts on all projects and to provide governance and corporate support for the project controls function within projects and in alignment with Worley PC Functional requirements.
• Provide visible HSE leadership, participate in the resolution of HSE issues, when required. Communicate and report on HSE issues/incidents (e.g. toolbox meetings).
• Plan work activities and identify hazards and controls in consultation with employees and conduct and record site inspections and risk assessments (including Hazard ID, risk analysis and control) and assure accountability of employees and sub-contractors under their rem
• Project schedule and cost baseline frozen in agreed time frame, project change management process established, Project team and systems mobilised in time and Project controls plan in place.
• Range analysis performed internally or externally at required level and work in alignment with the Daily Supervisors roles and responsibilities.
• Provide HSE, technical leadership and guidance to all staff within the project team.
• Determine the necessary discipline training requirements and arrange for appropriate training in conjunction with Functional team and carry out performance assessments for members of the group and make recommendations for salary adjustments and professional development.
• Liaise and train project managers/directors to clarify project control related issues and provide leadership, direction, supervision, and inspirational management to all team members (direct and indirect).      
• Client’s projects controls requirement understood from bid documents and proposal prepared accurately.
• Project controls write up complete within bid period timeframes and presented well for winning bids, client’s projects controls requirement understood and agreed and project setup complete within contract timeframes and to contract requirements.
• Contact with Clients procurement, cost, scheduling, and document control managers for:
• Collaboration on requirements/expectations/changes (e.g. Client PowerBI reporting changes) and discuss concerns/issues, opportunities and/or feedback.
• Ensure project controls team provides consistent, accurate management and reporting of services and capital cost, schedule and resourcing on projects and also ensure project controls team provides timely trend information and variance reports to project managers and helps to develop recovery plans on cost and schedule within agreed time frames along with that ensure project controls teams supports project teams on managing claims for variations and extensions and assists in resolutions of contract disputes.
• Identify and implement best practices for project controls and implement the required Worley suite of project controls tools.
• Manage the rollout of corporate initiatives with respect to project controls.
• Ensure feedback of cost and schedule actuals to estimating and business development for improvement of corporate estimating data and ensure relevant lesson learnt output is communicated and reviewed, 
• Managing the document control function across the portfolio and Interface with the Portfolio Administration Manager for non-document control InEight activities across the portfolio and assist audits in the broader Worley business as required.
• Meet overhead and S&O budgets as directed by the Manager of Project Controls and provide input to project budgets for bids in consultation with the Manager of Project Controls and coordinating annual rate increase requests and approval from Client following the remuneration reviews
• Overall responsibility for accurate reporting of Program/Project status to Corporate, in conjunction with Program/Project Manager and ensure project status (budgets, revenues, costs and forecasts) are current and updated in line with corporate reporting timing and periods and responsible for corporate reporting of change management or any significant trends that need to be advised to Corporate Management.

What you’ll have

• MBA or equivalent and Tertiary Engineering qualifications.
• Experienced in Microsoft Excel & Project, cost software, Primavera, cost control, planning or estimating of multi-disciplined projects and Ideally EPC, EPCM experience across a broad range of projects.
• Relevant experience in project controls.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills in English (and other languages, as applicable)
• Ability to form and foster collaborative relationships within the business and externally, ability to communicate openly, honestly, and effectively with peers, team and client, ability to effectively prioritise and juggle responsibilities and conflicting priorities. 
• Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals and providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done developing people to meet both their career goals and the organisation goals and creating a climate where people are motivated to their best to help organisation achieve its objectives.
• Working, managing, and influencing in a matrix organization across different locations, cultures, functions and business lines.
• Appropriate to the skills of the nominated team members, inspiring others around our Vision, Strategy and Purpose, leading people under adverse or challenging conditions and/or major change.
• Values driven, performance driven, continuous learner and energised by challenge, complexity, and change.
• Growth and customer focused, results and deadline driven and networking and building relationships and shows managerial courage.
• Honest, open, and ethical – models the behaviours expected of senior leaders in the business; demonstrates integrity, Caring, respectful and fair humble, self-aware and emotionally intelligent.
• Ability to form and foster collaborative relationships within the business and externally and represents Worley in a positive light aligned to Worley Code of Conduct, builds a desire to take responsibility, work together and co-operate within and between teams.  Creates a climate where people feel involved and valued, and where goals are shared.
• Shows consideration for the priorities and feelings of others.  Listens attentively and dispassionately.  Is not selective: recalls key points and takes account of them.  Is willing to adjust own plans, priorities or ideas when warranted.
• Plans priorities, assignments, and allocation of resources well.  Organises resources efficiently and effectively delegating work to the appropriate staff.
• Methodically and systematically identifies causes and problems. Assimilates and interprets data sensibly. Develops multiple solutions and evaluates them simultaneously.

Why you should apply

• Flexible work arrangements.
• Take advantage of our global on-line learning platform.
• Competitive rem & employee benefits.
• Enjoy a varied & challenging role.
• Career development opportunities beyond this role.

Moving forward together

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

We’re building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success.