Job Title: Project Management Analyst
Duration: 6 months (possibility of long term)
Schedule: 5/40
Location: Houston, Texas
This opportunity is focused on providing analytical, coordination, and administrative support within a capital projects environment across planning and execution activities. The role offers broad exposure to project management, project controls, cost and schedule tracking, governance, and stakeholder coordination within a regulated industrial setting. This position is based primarily in an office environment with periodic travel to operational facilities and related project locations.
Responsibilities: - Provide direct project management and business support to the Vice President of Capital Projects and LNG Technology and to the Projects Group.
- Prepare concise, accurate executive reports, dashboards, presentations, briefing materials, meeting packages, and decision-support analyses.
- Collect, validate, analyze, and consolidate project data related to scope, cost, schedule, progress, risk, change, procurement, staffing, and key performance indicators.
- Maintain project trackers, action-item logs, decision logs, risk and opportunity registers, change logs, governance calendars, and other project controls records.
- Support development and maintenance of project schedules, cost forecasts, cash-flow profiles, estimates, staffing plans, and resource forecasts in coordination with project managers and project controls personnel.
- Monitor project performance against approved baselines, identify variances and emerging trends, and escalate potential issues with fact-based analysis and recommended follow-up actions.
- Coordinate recurring project reviews, stage-gate activities, risk reviews, contractor performance reviews, and leadership meetings, including agendas, materials, minutes, actions, and closure tracking.
- Assist with development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Capital Project Execution work processes, procedures, templates, governance requirements, and quality systems.
- Support project document control and information management, including organization, version control, completeness checks, and timely distribution of project records and deliverables.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external contractors to obtain required information, resolve data gaps, and support timely completion of project deliverables.
- Assist with contract, purchase order, invoice, commitment, and change-order tracking in coordination with Procurement, Finance, project controls, and project leadership.
- Perform research, benchmarking, data gathering, and preliminary analyses to support capital planning, business development screening, feasibility evaluations, and special assignments.
- Support Management of Change and applicable project governance and regulatory compliance activities by tracking required documentation, reviews, approvals, and closeout actions.
- Participate in site visits, field walkdowns, and data collection activities as needed while complying with all site safety requirements.
- Handle confidential and commercially sensitive information with appropriate discretion.
- Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.
Requirements: - Five years of relevant experience in project management, project controls, engineering, construction, operations support, or business analysis.
- Experience supporting capital projects and working with project data related to scope, cost, schedule, progress, risk, change, procurement, staffing, and performance indicators.
- Experience preparing reports, dashboards, presentations, meeting materials, and decision-support analysis for leadership and project teams.
- Experience maintaining project records such as action logs, decision logs, risk and opportunity registers, change logs, governance calendars, and document control systems.
- Experience coordinating with internal stakeholders and external contractors to obtain information, resolve data gaps, and support timely project deliverables.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, validate, analyse, and consolidate project information accurately.
- Ability to monitor project performance against approved baselines, identify variances and trends, and communicate findings clearly.
- Strong reporting and presentation skills for executive summaries, dashboards, briefing materials, and meeting packages.
- Project coordination capability across schedules, cost forecasts, cash-flow profiles, staffing plans, resource forecasts, and governance activities.
- Document control and information management skills, including organisation, version control, completeness checks, and timely distribution of records.
- Ability to support contract, purchase order, invoice, commitment, and change-order tracking in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
- Ability to handle confidential and commercially sensitive information with appropriate discretion.
- Ability to work across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, Finance, HSE, contractors, and other stakeholders.
Required Certifications: - Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) (Required), or the ability to qualify for one.
- Valid driver licence (Required).
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience supporting executive management during brownfield and/or greenfield projects across front-end planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, start-up, and closeout.
- Experience supporting capital projects in LNG, oil and gas, petrochemical, refining, energy, industrial, or similarly regulated facilities.
- Familiarity with operating-facility interfaces, Management of Change, stage-gate governance, FERC and PHMSA requirements, or LNG facilities.
- Candidates with up to ten years of relevant experience are encouraged to apply.
