- Curate and develop an AI Agent to generate cost estimates based on engineering deliverables, material take-offs (MTO), construction scope, and project execution strategies.
- Collect, consolidate, and maintain historical cost estimates, benchmarking databases, market intelligence, and estimating tools.
- Define AI taxonomy, cost breakdown structures (CBS), work breakdown structures (WBS), and data classification standards.
- Design and develop a centralized database structure to manage engineering, quantity, cost, productivity, and benchmarking data.
- Perform data sanitization, cleansing, standardization, transformation, and normalization to ensure data quality and consistency.
- Analyze historical project data to identify cost trends, productivity benchmarks, cost drivers, and estimating patterns.
- Develop AI prompts and domain-specific reasoning frameworks to support accurate and explainable cost estimation.
- Implement validation mechanisms using historical benchmarks, cost rules, and industry standards to improve estimate accuracy and reliability.
- Establish confidence scoring, audit trails, and traceability for AI-generated estimates.
- Create an interactive AI Agent capable of providing personalized, role-based responses and recommendations.
- Generate automated outputs including:
- Executive summaries
- Cost estimation reports
- Benchmarking analyses
- Cost variance reports
- Risk and contingency assessments
- Management dashboards and insights
- Enable conversational querying and decision-support capabilities for estimators, project controls, engineering teams, and project management.
- Continuously improve AI performance through user feedback, historical project outcomes, and model refinement.
- Ensure governance, data security, and compliance requirements are incorporated into the AI solution.
Skills Required
- Curate and develop an AI Agent to generate cost estimates from engineering deliverables and MTOs
- Collect, consolidate, and maintain historical cost estimates, benchmarking databases, and market intelligence
- Define AI taxonomy, cost breakdown structures (CBS), work breakdown structures (WBS), and data classification standards
- Design and develop a centralized database structure for engineering, quantity, cost, productivity, and benchmarking data
- Perform data sanitization, cleansing, standardization, transformation, and normalization to ensure data quality
- Analyze historical project data to identify cost trends, productivity benchmarks, cost drivers, and estimating patterns
- Develop AI prompts and domain-specific reasoning frameworks to support accurate and explainable cost estimation
- Implement validation mechanisms using historical benchmarks, cost rules, and industry standards
- Establish confidence scoring, audit trails, and traceability for AI-generated estimates
- Create an interactive AI Agent providing personalized, role-based responses and recommendations
- Generate automated outputs: executive summaries, cost reports, benchmarking analyses, variance reports, risk assessments, and dashboards
- Ensure governance, data security, and compliance are incorporated into the AI solution
What We Do
Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) is a leading global energy company committed to powering society’s progress in a responsible and sustainable manner. With close to 50,000 employees and a global reach spanning over 100 countries, we are ranked among the world’s largest corporations by revenue in the Fortune Media IP Ltd’s 2022 Fortune Global 500® list. As Malaysia’s national oil and gas company, we safeguard and manage the nation’s hydrocarbon resources to ensure national energy security and maximise value. We explore, develop and produce hydrocarbons as well as cleaner energy solutions. We have three core businesses, namely Upstream, Gas and Downstream, supported by Project Delivery and Technology division, which acts as an enabler. We recently launched Gentari, our new entity providing customers with cleaner energy and lower carbon solutions in three core offerings – renewables, hydrogen and green mobility alongside our core portfolio. We remain committed to produce oil and gas in a differentiated manner, with focus on reducing carbon emissions and at competitive cost. Our hydrocarbon portfolio today is two-thirds gas, which puts us in an advantageous position as gas and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) will continue to play a vital role even as the energy system evolves. As one of the leading LNG players in the world, PETRONAS will continue to serve the global LNG demand. As a responsible and conscientious global energy player, sustainability is at the heart of our business and how we operate. Our commitment to responsible business growth and positive contributions to society and the environment remains unwavering. Fuelled by our passion to be a partner for our customers in the journey towards a lower carbon energy future, every step we take brings us closer towards achieving our aspiration of Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 (NZCE 2050).
