Turnaround Cost Controller

Everything we do at Neste serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. Over the past ten years, Neste’s transformation journey has taken the company from a local oil refining company to becoming a global leader in renewable and circular solutions.

Our purpose pushes us forward to search for new ways to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere, and to innovate circular solutions to reuse carbon again and again. Are you going to help us combat climate change?

Neste Netherlands is part of the Finnish parent company Neste. The plant in Rotterdam produces renewable fuels. Together with 200 colleagues we are working everyday to operate, maintain, and improve the plant in an efficient and safe manner.

We are looking for a TA Cost Controller to join our Turnaround team in Rotterdam.

The purpose of the Turnaround Cost Controller’s position is to manage cost estimation, control, and analysis for the maintenance, catalyst and project works during the yearly Neste turnarounds ensuring that financial objectives are met.

Your main responsibilities in creating a sustainable future are:

• Develop and manage cost estimates for turnaround budget approval

• Analyze indexation and rates of contractors to back the procurement department in
  contracting the right workforce

• Collaborate with the planning team to integrate cost control into project schedules

• Implement cost control procedures and ensure adherence to financial standards

• Work closely with the TA Manager and other stakeholders to align cost management with
  project goals

• Train team members on cost management practices and tools

• Monitor and report on project cost performance, identifying and addressing variances during project execution to ensure cost efficiency.

• Master’s Degree in Engineering, Finance, or a related field

• 2+ years of relevant professional working experience

• Preferably experience with: SAP, Cleopatra, Roser, Excel, GoogleSheets.

• A good team player with people from diverse backgrounds

• Flexible, stress resistant. Strong analytical mindset

• Proactive in searching for improvements in all areas

• Confident to speak up, both to internal and external stakeholders

• Ability to address and correct team members on cost-related issues

• High safety and quality awareness

• Ability to handle confidential information

• Good social and team skills

Our success is based on our people who are the driving force behind Neste’s transformation to become a global leader in renewable and circular solutions. We are also committed to carbon neutral production by 2035. The passion that we have for creating a healthier planet for our children is what makes us unique. We have set high standards for biodiversity, human rights and supply chain. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies.

To carry out our strategy and business growth, our values guide our work. We support, develop and take care of the wellbeing of our people to enable them to grow, innovate and build our Future.

At Neste we want our people to feel good and do good. We provide clear and transparent targets, development opportunities, empowering leadership as well as rewards based on role and responsibilities. The world is going through changes. At Neste our strategy reflects the understanding and mindset that we can be in charge of these changes to serve our purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. In the end, it is the people who make the company. We are Neste.