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Washington Group International Project Controls Engineer

START Date: 
January, 2007
END Date: 
July, 2007
As Project Controls Cost Analyst at Washington Group International for Common Sulfur Project (CSP) at the job site Doha and Ras Laffan, Qatar, specific duties and job responsibilities include:
– Five (5) months field rotation with QatarGas Common Sulfur Project (QG CSP) in Qatar until June 2007.
– Lead responsibility for compiling QG CSP Monthly Internal Report and Office of the President Report to support I/P Business Unit review.
– Updates the progress curves and earned value performance trends for QG CSP. Validates progress reported in PTS (Project Tracking System).
– Updated Engineering Master Document List status for QG CSP.
– Provides cost coding of requisitions/purchase orders for Procurement & Accounting.
– Report the hours spent on specific changes as requested by Change Management Department.
– Keep Project Controls supervision and Project Team informed of progress details and costs achieved against plans. Provide early warning of potentially unfavorable trends and monitor the activities to correct.
– Support preparation of the Client Weekly Report, Client Monthly Report and Internal Cost Report.
– Assign budget codes for requisitions in MARIAN (material handling software) application.
– Contributed to the schedule re-baseline effort: aligning Project Tracking System (PTS) milestone dates with the Contract Master Schedule activities.
– Involved with the compilation of the EAC (Estimate at Completion) for the project, collecting staffing plan information and summarizing data (work-hours and $ by task, by discipline, by position).
– Estimate to complete and track the cost for Construction Management expenses (i.e. housing and accommodation, cars, communication, IT equipment).
– Participate on Safe-Unsafe Safety Audit with the Client at the job site.
– Participate on the Weekly Site Walk along with Client to visually validate the construction progress achieved.
– Prepare desktop guidelines for the work performed and train other team members.

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