Sr. Tech Specialist

, India

Job Family Group

Projects

Worker Type

Regular

Posting Start Date

November 13, 2026

Business Unit

Integrated Gas

Experience Level

Experienced Professionals

Job Description

What’s the role

The role of the Sr. Technical Specialist – Cost Estimation is referring to establishing, delivering, maintaining, and managing a standardized and consistent suite of Project Services, including Project Cost Estimating. This TAS (Technical Asset Services) Project Services Senior Technical Specialist role will be dedicated to support remotely (from Chennai/Kuala Lumpur/ Manila). TAS teams support partners from Downstream-Manufacturing/Chemicals, Integrated Gas & New Energies, Upstream and Downstream assets and other Shell corporate functions. TAS teams are located across 4 locations: Chennai, Manila, Cyberjaya and Krakow.

What you’ll be doing

Technical Leadership

• Support technical competency development of TAS-Project Services team.

• Coach and mentor staff on technical topics like Cost Estimating, Industry best practices equipment, processes, digitalization and tools as well as on soft skills such as stakeholder engagement, communication skills and continuous improvement.

• Acting as focal or function lead for project services - Cost Estimation and support TAS-PS frontliners for any support on their deliverables.

Operational delivery

The desired candidate should have strong experience in brownfield Projects during the various stages (From Concepts to Execution) of Projects.

Develop

• Responsible for developing TAS-PS community and acting as a mentor / coach for all the frontlines.

• Develop Estimate basis and Plan detailing how the estimate will be developed.

• Prepare cost estimates at various stages of project maturity (Concept to Execution).

• Develop estimates using approved methodologies, historical data, benchmarks, and cost models.

• Extensive experience in Brownfield estimation, estimation methodologies, and industry benchmarking.

• Apply the appropriate estimate classification and accuracy range.

• Ensure estimates are aligned with defined scope, execution strategy, and schedule.

• Support estimate reviews, validations, and assurance activities.

• Develop benchmarking packages at appropriate level to check estimate results from top down versus both internal and external comparable data.

• Work with IPA forms and reports to understand comparison of Shell projects to industry datasets

• Utilize Technical, Economical, Commercial, Organizational & Political (TECOP) profile to establish appropriate deterministic cost contingency.

• Utilize cost methodologies and tools to produce cost estimates for all phases of project delivery process.

• Incorporate project complexity factors into project estimates and assemble key input data such as project objectives, scope and execution plan.

• Assess prospect scope and develop consistent estimates ranging from Type 0 to Type 4.

Support

• Closely working and support Project Leads in controlling the program portfolio and / or specific projects within the program.

• Closely working with project team in making timely decisions and improve predictability by providing data analysis, highlight early warnings and key opportunities

• Support reviews and assurance of cost estimates. Benchmark against historical performance, industry norms and established KPIs.

• Closely working with project teams for process to collect actual cost performance, condition and normalize data for future use, develop metrics and benchmarking information.

• Closely working with project team to the change management process, analyse trends and highlight potential impacts of changes on schedule and key milestones.

Run and Maintain

• Update and maintain Project/Portfolio dashboards including automation of reports and integrating with existing tools

• Arrange Estimate Kick Offs and Estimate Review meetings with the stakeholders

• Update SharePoint with Estimates, Benchmark data and relevant data for future reference

Provide steer and direction

• Provide the technical steer to frontliner staff for assigned work stream(s)

• Enable and develop the usage of automation, digitalization, supporting technologies / IT tools.

Support Account, Migration & Quality management

• Support the TAS Deployment and Capability Leads in managing various activities related to Accounts, Migrations, QA/QC.

Ensure compliance

• Ensure that activities are executed in line with Shell’s policies and standards. (Data privacy/protection, Code of Conduct, HSSE&SP, DEP, ORS, PMF, AMS processes & others).

What you bring

• University Degree in Engineering and/or certification as Project Services Manager/Lead or equivalent

• At least 10 years of work experience in Project Services in Oil & Gas/ Petrochemicals or equivalent industries.

• Level 1 Estimation capability is preferred

• Experience of implementing changes and continuous improvement projects.

• Able to demonstrate in-depth technical knowledge and required skill sets for the role.

• Solid hands-on experience in Project Controls, Scheduling, Cost Engineering, Cost Estimating, Project Management, and other aspects of Project Services is a must.

• Able to proactively manage stakeholder expectations and experience in working across different cultures.

• Preferably strong skills in Excel and experience in estimation tools: ASPEN TECH, CCET etc.

• Certification in Project Management from PMI / IPMA.

Behavioral Competences

• The Project Services Technical Specialist needs to be a self-starter, taking initiatives and work without close supervision.

• Due to multiple/conflicting priorities, candidate needs to be strong in prioritization, managing stakeholder expectations and be resilient under pressure.

• Sound understanding of business/process workflow and have a mature mindset to deal and behave under tough/challenging situations.

What we offer

You bring your skills and exp