EPC Cost Engineer - Hull | Project Controls

Commercial Talent Solutions; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Site allowance

Job summary

Commercial Talent Solutions is supporting a major international engineering and industrial services contractor with the appointment of a Cost Engineer for a large-scale EPC project in Hull. The project includes civils, structural steel, mechanical, pipework, electrical and instrumentation, focusing on cost control, forecasting and reporting across a high activity level.

The Cost Engineer sits in project controls and collaborates with commercial, planning, procurement and engineering teams on a

Qualifications

• Experience in cost reporting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Solid understanding of budgets, commitments, accruals and actual costs.
• Strong Excel and data-analysis capability.
• Experience using ERP, finance or project-controls systems.
• Ability to interrogate cost information and challenge inconsistencies.
• Clear communication across commercial, operational and project teams.
• Practical understanding of how engineering and construction projects are delivered.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate cost data across the project and work packages.
• Monitor actual expenditure, commitments and accruals against budgets.
• Produce cost reports, cash-flow forecasts and variance analysis.
• Support estimate-at-completion forecasts.
• Reconcile cost information with procurement, commercial and finance records.
• Assist monthly project reporting with commentary on cost movements.
• Coordinate with planning to align progress and cost information.

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Cost reporting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Cost control

Communication

Education

Quantity surveying

Commercial management

Engineering

Finance

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Commercial Talent Solutions is supporting a major international engineering and industrial services contractor with the appointment of a Cost Engineer for a large-scale EPC project in Hull. The project includes civils, structural steel, mechanical, pipework, electrical and instrumentation, focusing on cost control, forecasting and reporting across a high activity level.

The Cost Engineer sits in project controls and collaborates with commercial, planning, procurement and engineering teams on a