Capital Programs Facilities Planning Engineer

SUMMARY:
Our client, one of the largest international oil and gas organisations, is seeking a Planning Engineer to work with the Capital Program and Budgets Division of Facilities Planning Department.

POSITION INFO:
The Planning Engineer primary role is to support/lead the development of the Capital Program and Budget preparation of project Expenditure Requests for the presentation of the Capital Program, Annual Capital Budget and Expenditure Requests to corporate management, President & CEO and Board of Directors. This will involve working across Finance, Engineering and Project Management disciplines to seek input and alignment of deliverables to management.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering or Business discipline with preference for advanced degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Business or related from an accredited university.
• A minimum of eight (08) years of professional experience in a planning function related to capital project development and expenditure request funding, including at least three (03) in an engineering or project management role. The role of planning engineer is in a lead and support function.
• Previous experience in project economic evaluation and risk assessment for technical recommendations to enhance project economics.
• Experience in capital planning processes, project funding requirements, application of capital investment portfolio and optimization techniques.
• Proficient Knowledge on cost estimate development, WBS breakdown and reconciliation. SAP PRC module and Oracle is desirable but is not essential.
• Must be able to critique project business cases across engineering disciplines and make recommendations to enhance quality of business case.

• Act as an SME in the development of the Capital Program and Budgets. This will involve a review of the merits and validity of project business case submittals that will include an assessment of economic robustness and compliance against internal corporate guidelines.
• The SME will be expected to make recommendations where necessary and work across Business Lines to achieve alignment of project business case reviews.
• Coordinate review of annual project submittals to ensure business cases are coherent and of high quality prior to management review.
• Lead the review of Capital Program and ER planning briefs against compliance to internal departmental standards prior to endorsement and approval of management.
• Participate in a lead role in the development of presentations for senior management and executive level management.
• A comprehensive understanding of the interdependency between Capital Program and ER planning cycles, and approval authorities will be expected.
• Communication of monthly status reports on ER funding and Capital Program variances and reporting of key performance indicators on capital planning and expenditure requests, interpreting the results and making recommendations where necessary.
• Periodic review of internal company standards and their application to capital planning and expenditure request processes is expected, making recommendations for enhancements where necessary.
• The role will be expected to build strong working relationships internally within the department and across Business Lines and to provide mentorship and training to graduate level talent in support of objectives.

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