Cost Engineer

Every action we take at Oberon Solutions is driven by our passion for People and our belief in changing the company's status quo – to become more inspired, more efficient, and more competitive in their industries.

We believe in supporting our customers differently by providing a unique HR analysis, along with tailored advice and tools for managing day-to-day recruitment.

Today, as we are supporting our client on one of their major projects for 2025, we are currently looking for a:

COST ENGINEER - PERMANENT POSITION

AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND CAMPAIGN FOR EXPAT OPPORTUNITY IN SAUDI ARABIA

They are seeking a Cost Engineer to join our Assets Maintenance Solutions Department (AMSD) within our Global Manufacturing Excellence Organization. AMSD is responsible for providing maintenance technical consultations, towards best-in-class maintenance organization through conducting selective maintenance assessment, turnaround assurance and deploying cutting-edge technologies and best practice across Global Manufacturing portfolio.

Your primary role will be to to carry out Cost Engineering functions related to maintenance and turnaround in the Oil & Gas downstream sector (refineries / petrochemicals)

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist in establishing estimating standards and strategies for maintenance work and turnaround in order to optimize cost and reduce risks.
• Review bottom up estimate for yearly budget for maintenance.
• Review bottom up estimate for planned turnaround.
• Assist in establishing guidelines for yearly budgeting for maintenance and turnaround. Coordinate and work closely with Maintenance Engineer / Turnaround Engineer to prepare / review / finalize initial yearly maintenance budget and turnaround budget.
• Coordinate and work closely with Maintenance Engineer / Turnaround Engineer to review / finalize mid-year and Year-end budget.
• Carryout spending analysis and find out areas of improvement for cost savings and improvement.
• Carryout replacement vs maintenance cost of assets.
• Coordinate and work closely with Maintenance Engineer / Turnaround Engineer / Contract Advisor to estimate contract cost in proposal stage.
• Coordinate and work closely with Contract Advisor / Contract Engineer to evaluate price bid from Cost Engineering point of view.
• Coordinate and work closely with Contract Advisor / Contract Engineer to prepare and establish cost evaluation criteria.
• Assist in preparing, developing and measuring Key Performance Indicators for cost performance.
• Maintain computer records of cost estimating standards and guidelines.
• Coordinate and work closely with Maintenance Engineer / Turnaround Engineer to monitor cost at regular interval and produce periodic cost report.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in Engineering, preferably in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Construction, Production or closely related discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years Cost Engineering experience in maintenance and turnaround.
• Experience in cost benchmarking such as Solomon will be an advantage.
• Be familiar & experienced with contracting process and Cost Engineering in contracting.
• Be experienced in carrying out bottom up estimate for yearly budget for maintenance as well as planned turnaround.
• Be experienced in the use of cost estimating tools and the application of market conditions and risk management to estimates.
• Experienced & knowledge in computer-estimating programs, such as Aspentech CCE (Capital Cost Estimator), etc. and shall be familiar with estimate databases such as Richardson or similar is required.
• Be experienced with SAP system.
• Certification in Project Management Professional (PMP), AACE-CCP (American Association of Cost Engineers – Certified Cost Professional) or AACE-CEP (American Association of Cost Engineers – Certified Estimating Professional) will be preferred.

Salary will be based on level of experience.

If you recognize yourself in this job position, don’t hesitate to send us your application at ***********@oberon-solutions.co.uk