Senior Project Controls Specialist/Engineer
HybridBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
Job Summary
Maintain project control baselines, budgets, and cost codes while monitoring actuals, commitments, and variances to support project decisions. Prepare forecasts, cash flow statements, and value of work done, then reconcile these against financial systems. Manage change control by assessing cost and schedule impacts, ensuring approved changes reflect in baselines. Produce performance reports on cost and schedule trends, risks, and forecasting metrics. Coordinate controls inputs across project managers and technical leads, maintaining registers for deliverables and decisions. Analyze project schedules to identify slippage and emerging constraints. Provide direct advice on adverse trends, commercial exposure, and forecast overruns.
Required Qualifications
- Relevant experience in project controls, cost control, project coordination or project finance within a project delivery environment
- Demonstrated ability to independently support multiple project managers and manage competing reporting, forecasting and coordination priorities
- Strong cost control capability, including budgets, actuals, commitments, accruals, forecasting, variance analysis, change control and project reporting
- Working knowledge of project scheduling and the relationship between progress, time, cost and forecast outcomes
- Advanced Excel capability and confidence working with complex project and financial data
- Clear written and verbal communication, with confidence to question data, explain issues and follow up stakeholders constructively
- Strong attention to detail without losing sight of the overall project outcome
- A relevant project management, engineering, project controls, finance or business qualification
- Equivalent practical experience
- Project Controls Practitioner (PCP), P6 or other relevant professional training or certification
- Experience with Oracle ERP Financials, Oracle Project Portfolio Management or similar enterprise project systems
- Experience in consulting, mining, engineering, infrastructure, construction, EPC/EPCM, contractor or owner-side environments
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Oracle ERP Financials or Oracle Project Portfolio Management
- Experience in P6 or MS Project
- Experience in consulting, mining, engineering, infrastructure, construction, EPC/EPCM, contractor or owner-side environments
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