Job summary
As Project Controls Manager you are responsible for leading the projects controls squad, supporting governance and verification activities. You will collaborate closely with the Unit Lead, and site project squads to provide day to day Project Controls support. With your contribution you help to ensure the integrity and effectiveness of estimating, planning / scheduling, cost management and management of change; Your major business target is to continuously improving the project controls strategy, plans and procedures; and satisfying BP requirements and the expectations of your stakeholders
Entity:
Production & Operations
Job Family Group:
Project Management Group
Job Summary:
As Project Controls Manager you are responsible for leading the projects controls squad, supporting governance and verification activities. You will collaborate closely with the Unit Lead, and site project squads to provide day to day Project Controls support. With your contribution you help to ensure the integrity and effectiveness of estimating, planning / scheduling, cost management and management of change; Your major business target is to continuously improving the project controls strategy, plans and procedures; and satisfying BP requirements and the expectations of your stakeholders
Job Description:
How you can help shape the future:
At bp, we have only one thing on our minds: the energy of tomorrow. We want to reimagine energy so that we achieve net zero by 2050 at the latest. To achieve this, we are rethinking energy and relying on the expertise and passion of our 66,000 employees worldwide, 4,000 of them in Germany. Every day, with the products and services of our bp, Aral and Castrol brands, they ensure energy and mobility for millions of people - today and in the future
Your new area of responsibility - challenging and future-oriented
Discipline Management
- Drives standardization and continuous improvement for the discipline
- Enforces technical standards through verification and guidance for technical assurance on work completed by discipline members; makes decisions on exceptions within approval levels
- Ensures technical processes are up to date, pragmatic and aligned with relevant requirements, endorsing deviation where required
- Promotes knowledge sharing among discipline members for consistency of solutions and sharing of ideas and learnings
- Delivers accurate and on-time performance data, benchmarks, and insights to support efficient and effective project execution.
- Manages the squad backlog
People Development
- Provide visible safety leadership to model desired behaviours in order to help prevent accidents or harm to people
- Supports the Discipline Leads to improve discipline health and develop people capability through leadership, coaching, training, and mentoring
- Supports the on-boarding of new project controls members
Supporting the Business
- Understands Gelsenkirchen site priorities and supports unit / squad leads to build their backlogs
- Manages contractors to ensure compliance with bp controls strategies, plans, and procedures.
- Supports discipline leads to define priorities for the discipline and incorporate into the prioritization process
- Provide support and direction for independent benchmarking
Governance and Verification
- Supports assurance in accordance with the projects common process
Controls
- Develop site Project Controls Improvement Plans (aligned to discipline Vision and Mission) and drive continuous improvement
- Support and implement the project controls strategy, plans and procedures, implementing continuous improvements plans and managing conformance to internal and external requirements and stakeholders
Benchmarking
- Support Internal and External Benchmarking Exercises
Your qualification profile - profound and passionate
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering
- More than 10 years of relevant professional experience (within the Chemical / Petrochemical / Industrial / Refining / Production Areas) in Project Management or Project Controls
- More than 3 years team lead experience, ability to coach, mentor and share best practice and knowledge
- Very good German and English language skill (at least CEFR level C1)
- Ability to interface, influence, and work effectively with members of the Project Leadership
- Commitment for simplification and efficiency and in particular a focus on fit-for-purpose work that meet the needs of the business
- Good understanding of different methods of project / government financing / funding and legislation / policy in Germany
- Experience in portfolio analysis and resource modelling
- Strong analytical skills with expertise in MS Excel, PowerBI, other data analysis tools along with MS office
- Beneficial is the qualification as an Accredited Project Controls Professional and / or Project Management Professional (AACE, RICS, PMP, APM)
Work-life balance and what else speaks for us:
- Flexible, hybrid and family-friendly working, at least 30 vacation days and programs to improve work-life balance
- Very attractive basic remuneration plus bonus payment, participation in the share program possible, parental allowance as a one-off payment, extra bonuses for special achievements, attractive company pension scheme, regular salary review, group accident insurance, relocation allowance in special cases, job bike, subsidised meals and more
- Job sharing and part-time work
- Career and development opportunities as well as extensive internal and external subsidised training opportunities
- Structured onboarding programs and buddy support
- Match funding; bp doubles donations made by employees to charitable organisations and rewards voluntary time commitment
- Employees can offset their personal carbon footprint; bp doubles this amount
Travel Requirement
No travel is expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
This role is eligible for relocation within country
Remote Type:
This position is not available for remote working
Skills:
Change control, Commissioning, start-up and handover, Conflict Management, Construction, Cost estimating and cost control, Design development and delivery, Frameworks and methodologies, Governance arrangements, Performance management, Portfolio Management, Project and construction safety, Project execution planning, Project HSSE, Project Leadership, Project Team Management, Quality, Requirements Management, Reviews, Risk Management, Schedule and resources, Sourcing Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategy and business case, Supplier Relationship Management
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