Project Controls & Reporting Engineer

Are you a Project Controls & Reporting Engineer with experience supporting complex offshore oil and gas projects? Do you enjoy transforming large volumes of project data into meaningful reporting that drives decision-making and project performance?

Hill International is seeking an experienced Project Controls & Reporting Engineer to support the expansion of a major offshore oil and gas development in Libya. The project will be managed from Milan, and candidates must have the legal right to work in Italy.

The successful candidate will play a key role within the Project Controls team, supporting project reporting, progress measurement, schedule analysis, performance monitoring, and management reporting across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and issue daily, weekly, monthly and ad-hoc project reports covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, HSSE, cost and schedule performance.
• Consolidate inputs from multiple disciplines, contractors and stakeholders to develop integrated project status reports.
• Gather progress information from planning, cost control and site teams and ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• Analyse project performance data, identify trends, variances, risks and opportunities, and provide meaningful insights to management.
• Support Earned Value Management (EVM), KPI tracking and progress measurement activities.
• Develop dashboards, management reports, charts and presentations for client and senior management meetings.
• Prepare executive-level reports highlighting achievements, critical issues, delays, risks and mitigation actions.
• Support project forecasting and performance monitoring activities.
• Ensure reporting compliance with contractual requirements, project procedures and client standards.
• Coordinate closely with engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, quality and HSE teams to ensure timely reporting inputs.
• Interface with contractors to ensure accurate and timely submission of progress information.
• Support the Project Controls Manager and Project Director with management reporting and project performance analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Project Controls, Reporting, Planning or Project Performance Management within Oil & Gas projects.
• Minimum 5 years of offshore project experience, including recent experience on offshore EPC, EPCM or PMC projects.
• Strong understanding of project controls principles including scheduling, progress measurement, reporting and performance analysis.
• Experience working with Primavera P6 and project reporting systems.
• Familiarity with Earned Value Management (EVM), KPIs and progress measurement methodologies.
• Strong reporting, analytical and presentation skills.
• Advanced Excel and reporting/dashboard development capabilities; Power BI experience would be advantageous.
• Proven ability to work within multidisciplinary international project teams.

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to work on a major offshore oil and gas development project.
• Long-term project involvement with a leading international PMC organisation.
• Exposure to large-scale engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning activities.

Collaborative multinational project environment based in Milan