Vacancy Project Controller CAPEX Chemical Projects Sweden

About the vacancy

As a Controller, you will be working on large CAPEX projects.

Our client is a (fine) Chemical Producer that serves several markets like agriculture, personal care, cleaning, food, paints and coatings. The production sites are located worldwide with a head office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. At this moment we would like to get in touch with an experienced project Controls manager for Capex projects.

Tasks and activities

• Provide overall project cost, schedule, estimating, progress measurement, and change management leadership and expertise;
• Manage Project Cost and Schedule throughout the project life cycle;
• Fully understand the scope of the project, contractual requirements, identify the major milestones and set clear priorities for the project team;
• Lead the cost and schedule estimates for various Gate reviews and participate in the preparation of Gate packages;
• Create alignment for support and approval of key deliverables (i.e. Estimates Development Plans, Estimates, etc.);
• Develop and maintain the Project Controls related plans and procedures;
• Participate in kick-offs and ongoing meetings with the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor(s) to ensure common understanding of project controls requirements;
• Participate in gathering and recording lessons learned for the project;
• Serve as the budget custodian, lead financial close-out of the project and participate in other project close-out activities;
• Stewards Project cost/schedule with ongoing project analysis, reporting, forecasting, budgeting and Change Management;
• Coordinate the collecting, analyzing, and reporting of project cost and schedule control information to ensure overall project status is assessed, potential problem areas are identified;
• Analyze trends, prepare forecasts, opportunities and vulnerabilities;
• Administer the project change control process and communicate implication of changes. Steward the overall Change Management process;
• Monitoring and appraising the performance of the Contractor(s) in the areas of cost control, progress measurement and control;
• Ensure that proper and effective project control measures are executed by the Contractor;
• Review and endorse the plans and procedures developed by the contractor. Ensure implementation of the same;
• Review and endorse progress and cost/schedule baselines and forecast prepared by contractors;
• Analyze cost/schedule and progress reports and trends developed by contractor;
• Review cost bases of contractor's Change Proposals / Orders;
• Assist in developing/reviewing cost corrective actions and recovery plans, and making sure needed actions/plans are implemented;
• Develop cost and schedule estimates to support opportunity assessments, Project funding, Project reviews, and ad hoc requests.

Job requirements

• Experience in working in Brownfield Chemical (CAPEX) environment;
• Demonstrated leadership skills;
• Good command of English both written and spoken. Command of Swedish language is a plus;
• Strong influencing without authority, consulting, mentoring, analytical, and computing skills;
• Willingness to work a portfolio of CAPEX projects;
• Experience with Excel is a must;
• SAP (ARIBA) is a strong preference.

Characteristics

• Education University (Master/Bachelor) / Advanced technical college
• Experience level Senior (more than 7 yrs of experience) / Medior (3-7 yrs experience)
• Type of contract Target Permanent contract / Project assignment
• Duration of assignment 12 months
• Location Stockvik, Sweden
• Start ASAP
• Reference ID 30214