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Engineer - Project Economist

Volta Charging

Volta Charging

Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
Posted on May 7, 2025
Reference ID R177776 Updated 05/07/2025
Production and Manufacturing Downstream
Philippines
Makati City
N/A

What you'll be doing

  • Developing and assuring Economic models to evaluate the economic feasibility of Asset Integrity / Maintain Margin and Growth (margin improvement) projects; developing models to reflect the integrated value chain associated with the opportunity.
  • Support improvement opportunities using the MTO process and Fit4 tool; support the asset Business Development Leads in managing, progressing, and delivering growth improvement opportunities, including annual ideation sessions.
  • Coordinate benchmarking studies, analyze and report results; perform high level analysis from benchmarking and competitive results, identifying areas for improvement.
  • Developing economic datasets for each model derived from internal pricelines, open-book pricing, macroeconomic conditions, understanding of government policies, and applicable financial models, e.g., buy vs lease analysis
  • Developing open-book economic scenarios in support of external fiscal framework advocacy
  • Delivering robust and fit-for-purpose uncertainty and risk analyses, effective and timely challenge to support quality investment decisions by key customers - Business Opportunity Managers, Decision Review Board members, Decision Executives,
  • Providing consistency in economic analyses via effective integration, compliance, and use with given standards, guidelines, processes, pricelines, external and internal economic datasets, and various analytical tools (cash flow models, tornado sensitivities) to enable reliable comparison of opportunities.
  • Performing project screenings in early opportunity development phases
  • Maintaining site-based economic screening tools
  • Participating in Shell Canada Economist Quarterly connects
  • Key interfaces with Business Development & Commercial, Economics & Scheduling, Project Delivery, Technology, Joint Venture, Finance, Tax, Trading & Supply, Digital & Business Transformation workstreams, Government Relations, Environment

What we need from you

  • BS Degree in Chemical Engineering or Business/Finance
  • Minimum 2-4 years in the Oil and Gas industry, prior experience in Manufacturing (Process / Projects / Economics & Scheduling) and/or economic evaluations and decision analyses using cash-flow models is desired.
  • Strong analytical and communication (oral, written) skills with the ability to grow into a trusted advisor.
  • Capacity to dive into analytical details, and surface with summary of key insights.
  • Skilled at working with various projects teams and screening and evaluation of multiple opportunities.
  • Fully versed with MS Office suite of software (Word, Powerpoint and Outlook) with advance skill level in Excel.
  • Understanding of IT technologies, Data Analysis techniques, databases, and reasonable computer programming skills is a plus.