Project Controls and Scheduling Lead, Oil and Gas

Company Profile 

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally-native, data-empowered solutions.  Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team.  Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success. 

Overview

We're looking for a Project Lead, for an enterprise oil and gas organization, who will be in charge of cost tracking and analysis, schedule management, and compliance with agreements and permits across multiple CCUS projects.  This role will partner with Project Managers who are responsible for overseeing the planning, execution and completion of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects. This is a new role to the client organization and will require at least 5 years of previous experience in this role and brings best practices, insights and expertise to help build out this function at the client organization. This role requires both leadership skills and technical competencies and experience across a broad range of technical disciplines.  This position is remote and may work across all time zones throughout the US, although primarily Mountain or Central Time. Qualified candidates must meet the minimum requirements and be fully authorized to work in the United States, without requiring visa sponsorship or C2C status.

 Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain project schedules including the incorporation of 3rd party contractor schedules
• Partner with project teams to review, approve, and update schedules on a regular basis
• Monitor the progress against the approved schedule and highlight any deviations to project teams
• Develop standard operating procedures for scheduling across a portfolio of projects
• Evaluate the impact of contractor change orders on project schedules and resource requirements
• Create weekly and monthly reports for leaders that show project costs, schedules, and changes
• Perform data analysis to identify trends and assess health of projects
• Develop and own cost tracking and analysis for CCUS projects.
• Manage and ensure compliance of agreements
• Manage and ensure permits are properly issued and maintained across multiple projects.
• Develop process flows, consistent standards and compliance protocols for this new role within the organization.
• Review and approve third-party contractor invoices
• Evaluate impact of contractor changes to project budget
• Integrate work done by specialists in subsurface, wells, land, surface facilities engineering, stakeholder relations, construction, operations, health, safety, environment, regulatory and commercial partner interfaces.      
• Support safe, cost effective and timely delivery of capital projects.
• Ability to understand complex problems and ensure efficient use of resources to deliver project results. 
• Follows established project management processes within the organization.
• Develop, implement, and help manage robust and fit-for-purpose processes for identifying, screening, appraising, selecting, designing, and executing economic risk.
• Establish robust, effective, and fit-for-purpose project services processes.  
• Document and apply lessons learned for continuous process improvement.             
• Ensure scope, schedule and cost controls are implemented at each project phase, working alongside project managers.
• Collaborate across functions such as Geology, Land, Business Development.
• Develop and apply the project playbook and best practices tool kit.
• Assist in managing vendor, supplier, and service providers.
• Mentor and develop project controls specialists

Requirements

Desired Skills & Experience

• Project Management experience utilizing PM methodology and tools. This includes project coordination, planning, scheduling, monitoring, documentation and reporting.
• Minimum of 10 years in oil and gas industry in project, program management or consulting capacity.
• Strong individual contributor experience.  Exposure to carbon capture, carbon injections or carbon capture utilization and storage is preferred.
• Ability to integrate, align and motivate a team of people across a common project mission.
• Communication skills, setting of priorities, delegation, and performance management.
• Ability to develop and deliver a complex set of competing objectives.  Set high standards.
• Comfortable with complexity, evolving situations and developing plans with multiple courses of action.
• Knowledge of project develo