Cost Control Engineer

Job Description

About this role:

• Participate in preparation of annual COMPANY Operations budgets discuss and follow-up on thebudget allocation for the operations directorate with sections heads and highlight areas ofconcerns to assist strategic decision making on corrective actions.
• Cost control focal point in All Departments under Operation Directorate
• Develop the cost control strategy and plans with Finance and Management for the Operationand Capexs expenses in Operation Directorate.
• Participate and develop the consolidate annual budget for the Operation Directorates divisionand departments and follow-up on the budget allocation with division chiefs and departmentmanagers and highlight the areas of concern to take strategic or operation decisions foroptimum performance.
• Lead the monitoring of operations expenditure and issue cost analysis reports highlighting areasfor improvement. Evaluate the historical information and propose recommendations for improvements.
• Attend review meetings with the Finance, Materials and others concerning cost and financial review.
• Review inter-departmental expenses, proper codification of each cost account heads (cost centers) and data.
• Lead the conducting of reviews of invoices and back - up documents and clear for payment in line with defined guidelines.
• Coordinate and add work breakdown structure (WBS) for new Capexes and turnarounds in system.
• Coordinate and develop Capexes annual cash flow, cost reconciliations and variance analyses.
• Implement and monitor costs at each stage of project and for entire project until completion or close-out.
• Support operations planning for resources arrangements by reviewing the historical plant data, available time standards and other factors.
• Prepare the monthly cost report with the approved service entry sheets (SES) for vendors payments for all Operations directorate departments.
• Lead the conducting of reviews of annual requirements for labor or special equipment hire foroperations purposes. Lead the conducting of analyses for manpower utilization and materialsusage data to ascertain detailed needs, discusses with department leadership to raise necessary documentation to initiate contract negotiations for on-going labor requirements orhire agreements for equipment.
• Supervise the effective administration of SAP processes within the assigned unit and adherence to SAP guidelines in all related aspects of annual and monthly planning, scheduling, master datamanagement, to ensure system/data integrity in line with defined COMPANY standards.
• Ensure that system documents are updated to comply with quality standards.
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices considering global best practices, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.

• Bachelors degree in chemistry, Process Engineering, or a relevant discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in a similar environment within the petrochemical industry.
• Experience in the Oil & Gas industry is mandatory as mentioned.
• Experience in Cost estimation & Projects control.
• Experience as SAP super user.
• Knowledge about SAP entries or combination of relevant experience and training
• Knowledge of the operations in petrochemical plants and of COMPANY operations and products.
• Good problem solving, work planning, time management and negotiation skills.
• Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Good knowledge of written and spoken English, knowledge of Arabic is an advantage.
• Employee relations skills.
• IT proficiency.
• Health, Safety, and Security Management skills
• Strong planning, organizing, and integration skills.
• High level of integrity.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Conceptual and analytical skills.
• Achievement orientation and result oriented skills.
• Strong time management skills.
• Customer orientation skills.
• Decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Inventory management skills.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship building, negotiations, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Arab / Indian/ Pakistani nationalities required.

Keyskills :
Safety Health Cost Estimation

About Company

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear. Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer. Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®. To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up "The Greenhouse", which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Womens Empowerment Principles.