Project Controls Engineer

Pacific Aluminium and Rio Tinto proposed to construct a natural gas pipeline to the alumina refinery at Gove in north east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The proposed pipeline was approximately 603km in length and the feasibility study included detailed engineering and preparation for construction with the goal of providing full gas of 30PJ/annum by 1^st January 2016.

My responsibilities included:

Planning and scheduling, cost estimating, earned value management, change management, cost controlling and risk management.

Planning and scheduling, cost estimating, earned value management, change management, cost controlling and risk management.

Project Controls Engineer

CM Pros, San Francisco, CA                                                                 (2009 – 2013)

Project schedule conceptualization and development, progress reporting and progress monitoring & progress behaviour analysis.  

2005 thru 2007 BLHI Project in Yangon, Burma

2007 thru 2008 BLHI Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa; Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Khartoum, Sudan

2008 thru 2010 BLHI Project in Lusaka, Zambia

2010 thru present BLHI Project in Islamabad, Pakistan

ATo monitor the cost and project progress trend-lines using the various project control methods and planning strategies

AIdentify the delays in the execution of the project or activities via schedule analysis and PERT methodology of sequencing the activities with even distribution of loads

ACoordinate with the Cost engineers to devise means of extracting details of the project cost and schedule health with respect to planned and forecasted cost

ADevelop and update Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Cost Code of Accounts (CCA), project-specific Cost Control Procedures, Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS)

ACreate the Project First Budget from tender estimates and monitor the cost booking to respective Cost Centers

AEstablish the project controls function of for all projects in terms of planning/scheduling, cost estimating, cost budgeting, cost control, change management and progress and performance management.

Project Controls Engineering and Management - career development with primary capability in project scheduling

·            Implement processes in order to achieve Project Controls objectives:

Ø  Scope Management

Ø  Schedule Management

Ø  Cost Management

Ø  Risk Management

·            Monitor projects performance and perform reporting function

Project planning and cost control support for the brownfield EPC scope of ExxonMobil's KTT Project during the construction, commissioning/completions and close-out phases of Marlin Complex and West Tuna Platform/Kipper Subsea Facility tie-ins in Bass Strait, Victoria.