Schedule and Cost Analyst

CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION

CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a recognized leader in the refining industry and operates under the well-known CITGO brand.

CITGO owns and operates three refineries located in Lake Charles, LA.; Lemont, IL.; and Corpus Christi, TX, and wholly and/or jointly owns 38 active terminals, six pipelines and three lubricants blending and packaging plants.

With approximately 3,300 employees and a combined crude capacity of approximately 807,000 barrels-per-day (bpd), positions CITGO as one of the best-branded supplier companies in the industry.

At CITGO our people are our most important resource.

Our core values are Safety, Integrity, Respect, Accountability, and Care.

Job Summary

This position serves to primarily focus on the refinery's capital project portfolio as it relates to project schedules and costs.

Basic scheduling functions include the development and continual maintenance (progress updates, task and logic changes, etc.) of capital project schedules.

Basic cost functions include the analysis, forecasting and reporting of costs such that the project team and management is aware of budget variances, trends, and performance throughout the project life cycle.

Position serves to understand the scope being performed so timely and predictable information to support required changes can be provided to achieve desired outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications



* Bachelor's degree in related field required plus minimum of 5 years related experience or 8 years of related experience in lieu of degree.


* Advanced knowledge of developing, progressing and analyzing project schedules with Primavera software


* Advanced knowledge of cost analysis, forecasting and reporting


* Detailed knowledge of cost accounting and SAP


* General knowledge of refinery construction activities


* Advanced computer skills relating to Microsoft Office Suite


* Strong analytical and management skills


* Capable of working with little supervision

Job Duties



* Primary: Set-up capital project schedules and perform schedule updates (formal updates done monthly) within Primavera software working primarily with the respective project engineer/project team


* Secondary: Set-up each capital project within Lemont's proprietary Controls System to support the forecasting of project costs.

Activities include:
+ Load costs from estimating software
+ (estimates done by others) into standard work breakdown structure (set of cost codes)
+ Spread costs by month by cost code based on budget, schedule performance, cost commitments, material delivery timing, service invoice timing and discussions primarily with the project engineer
+ Reforecast costs monthly once prior month actual costs are automatically loaded from SAP into the various cost codes.

Note - once the project is transitioned to construction, majority of construction cost code forecasting is done by others
+ Ensure sta...