Umang Shah
Gilles Plains,Australia
Summary
Senior Cost Controller with extensive experience delivering cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and project controls across large-scale BESS, Wind, infrastructure, and industrial projects. Proven track record in driving strong financial governance through accurate cost tracking, variance analysis, earned value management, and cash flow forecasting to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate complex project data into clear financial insights for management and stakeholders. Highly skilled in developing and maintaining project baselines, schedules, and cost performance reporting using IMS, Bastion, SAP, Oracle ERP, Primavera P6, MS Project, and advanced Excel. Experienced in leading cross-functional collaboration with engineering, procurement, site, and finance teams to support successful project delivery and continuous improvement in cost performance.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Project Manager/Cost Controller
RJE Global Pty Ltd
Adelaide, SA
03.2022 - Current
- Lead cost control and project governance across capital projects, ensuring alignment between scope, budgets, commitments, and actuals while supporting Project and Construction Managers through financial systems for accurate cost capture, reporting, and forecasting.
- Establish and manage cost and schedule baselines, delivering risk-informed forecasts and cost-to-complete (CTC) projections, while overseeing BESS and Wind project budgets ($10M–$120M), achieving 18% cost savings and improving forecast accuracy by 22%.
- Manage project planning and scheduling in Primavera P6, including tender schedule development, milestone tracking, and invoicing, ensuring alignment with contract requirements and maintaining target profit margins.
- Perform detailed cost variance and performance analysis at work pack level, manage work packs through their lifecycle, and support tendering and estimating with data-driven insights and lessons learned.
- Coordinate closely with project managers and project teams, procurement, design, and site teams to develop and maintain project schedules, ensuring effective planning, scheduling, and delivery in line with contract requirements.
- Accountable for the completion of the assigned work scope consistent with the Project Objectives and ensures smooth transitions between project stages.
- Ensuring effective planning and scheduling of project activities in collaboration with the project delivery team on client projects.
- Work closely with procurement and project teams to gather inputs and develop project schedules aligned with project progress.
- Accountable for delivery of assigned work scope in line with project objectives, ensuring smooth transitions between project stages and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships across internal and external teams.
- Trained and mentored project teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the team regarding workpacks and budget forecasts.
Production Operator
Philmac Pty Ltd
Adelaide, SA
09.2020 - 03.2022
- Providing guidance in development of components using advanced machines like MAZAK CNC, Drill Machine.
- Assessing and reviewing the quality of the product by sustaining company’s quality standards. Ensuring evaluation of products through conducting periodic inspections.
- Ensuring all components are as per specifications and tie in with the production plan.
- Leading, motivating, planning and managing of the team to ensure the production schedules targets are met.
- Recognizing equipment and components for collection as specified in the BOM and ensures that all components are correct prior to packing.
- Consistently follow SOPs in the correct assembly and sub-assembly of products and achieve KPIs for the assembly of multiple components.
- Utilizing time management and organizational skills to identify which machines needs to be prioritized.
- Able to set up quality testing stations including the adjustment of gauges and cones to suit the testing requirements specified in SOPs.
- Proactive monitoring of equipment throughout the job to anticipate and plan maintenance requirements.
- Appropriately setting up and using pneumatic and air tools to achieve assembly specifications as per the SOP.
- Providing guidance and implementing adequate health & safety measures and procedures.
Senior Engineer Projects
Elecon Engineering Co Ltd
, India
07.2015 - 04.2018
- Planning and execution of mandatory spare projects as per the cost and schedule constrains.
- As part of the initiation and planning team of the Project, I worked with stakeholders in the development of the Project’s Scope giving birth to well-defined project outcomes and outputs.
- Attending kick-off meetings with clients and consultants to discuss & establish project requirements, overall project schedule & detailed billing break-ups.
- Monitoring production processes and schedules through prompt identification, assessment and resolving of issues.
- Apply efficient and effective project management skills through the control of project budgets, project schedule, and key milestones to ensure production activities are being undertaken in accordance with the approved WBS and in a safe and efficient manner.
- Identifying risks associated with the delivery of the project activities, assessing of the risks and creating a risk management plan using appropriate risk prevention/mitigation strategies.
- Ensure works are planned and undertaken with appropriate communication with customers, vendors and internal departments minimizing the disruption, delay and inconvenience to customers and other stakeholders.
- Prepare technical offers, assess tenders and actively participate in the development, implementation, and commissioning phases of project to achieve project completion in line with the budget and time constrains.
- Preparing of the project schedule using MS Project. Tracking and identifying of all the materials in Oracle ERP system followed by their appropriate depiction through Workflow chart (Gantt chart) for the client and other stakeholders.
- Independently managing several projects concurrently using project management methodologies and procedures.
- Developing engineering solutions to process and plant problems both individually and together with others, with a focus on reliability.
- Advise the Project manager of scheduling / production issues that might impact on key schedule dates.
Planning Engineer
Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Tech. Pty Ltd
, India
11.2014 - 06.2015
- Planning and Execution of proprietary projects to maintain delivery schedule with respect to contractual completion date.
- Ensuring projects’ planning activities are done in a proactive manner and in accordance with organisation’s policies and procedures.
- Organize various plans for all planning exercise of the project using thoughtful utilization of common tools and standard company processes.
- Effectively managing, allocating and co-coordinating resources, systems and processes to successfully meet project deliverables within time, budget and to a high standard of quality.
- Developing project-based schedules after appropriate risk management.
- Monitoring progress regularly using SAP ERP system and optimizing production plans and inventory levels.
- Coordinating with the production team in preparing effective production schedules with consideration to raw material usage, plant capacity and demand requirements.
- Evaluating all systems’ capacities and examining production requirements and system deficiencies.
- Implementing Quality Assurance procedures and participation in relevant quality related functions.
- Liaise with other internal departments and work collaboratively to ensure workflow aligns with the schedule.
Senior Engineer – Projects
Elecon EPC Projects Ltd
, India
08.2011 - 08.2013
- Planning, monitoring and execution of mandatory spare projects in alignment with the projects’ scope and deliverables.
- Providing high quality support to customers ensuring timelines and appropriate quality processes are met within budget and schedule.
- Manage and contribute to the effective allocation of resources, forecasting future resource needs based on project and program plans and/or pipeline and budgets.
- Evaluate the viability of any proposed project and co-ordinate necessary resources required to carry out key tasks and meet project objectives.
- Interface with project team, clients, consultants, designers, vendors, subcontractors for management of the planning function in accordance with established procedures.
- Apply efficient and effective project management skills through the control of project budgets, project schedule, and key milestones to ensure production activities are being undertaken in accordance with the approved WBS and as per the WHS guidelines.
- Prepare technical offers, assess tenders and actively participate in the development, implementation, and commissioning phases of project to achieve project completion with desired outcomes.
Education
Masters of Global Project Management -
Torrens University
01-2020
Graduate Diploma of Project Management -
University of South Australia
01-2019
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering -
India01-2011
Skills
- Cost Control
- Project Expenditure & Variance Analysis
- Project Controls & Cost Engineering
- Schedule Development
- Systems & Tools (ERP and Planning Software)
- Commercial & Financial Reporting
- Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Resource Planning & Optimisation
- Risk Management & Project Controls Support
- Project Management & Cost Planning
- Manufacturing Planning & Production Coordination
- Critical and analytical thinking
- Problem solving
- Set Schedules and milestones
- Independent work
- Team collaboration
- Handling adverse situations
- Planning and organizing
- Meeting deadlines
- Microsoft Office
- Oracle ERP
- SAP ERP
- Primavera P6
- IMS ERP
- Bastion
Training
Completed Industrial Training at Engineering Services Department, Windsor Machine Ltd., Ahmedabad, India.
References
- Mr. Vatsal Patel, 0469 346 455
- Mr. Devesh Kundu, 0478 701 824
Timeline
Assistant Project Manager/Cost Controller
RJE Global Pty Ltd
03.2022 - Current
Production Operator
Philmac Pty Ltd
09.2020 - 03.2022
Senior Engineer Projects
Elecon Engineering Co Ltd
07.2015 - 04.2018
Planning Engineer
Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Tech. Pty Ltd
11.2014 - 06.2015
Senior Engineer – Projects
Elecon EPC Projects Ltd
08.2011 - 08.2013
Masters of Global Project Management -
Torrens University
Graduate Diploma of Project Management -
University of South Australia