Power Plant Cost Lead / Cost Controller

Airswift; Texas; Sur place; USD 150 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Airswift is seeking a Power Plant Cost Lead / Cost Controller for a major Texas power-generation project in Dallas. The role focuses on cost control, forecasting, variance analysis, and change management, working with project and EPC teams on a large capital program.

You will contribute to cost-performance reporting and coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, and scheduling to ensure alignment with budgets and baselines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project cost control.
• Senior- or lead-level capability with a hands-on approach.
• Experience in client-side project environments and EPC environments.
• Experience supporting large capital projects.
• Change-management experience.
• Understanding of data-center-related project work.

Responsabilités

• Lead cost control activities for a major power project.
• Develop forecasts and variance analyses.
• Support change-management processes.
• Coordinate cost information across engineering, procurement, construction, and scheduling.
• Prepare cost-performance reporting for project leadership.

Connaissances

Cost control processes

Budget reporting

Forecast costs

Variance analyses

Change management

Cross-functional coordination

EPC coordination

Cost reports review

Outils

Cost-control software

Description du poste

Job Title: Power Plant Cost Lead / Cost Controller

Duration: Project expected through Q4 2029

Schedule: 40 or 50 hours/week

Location: Dallas, TX

This opportunity supports a major power-generation project in Texas with simple-cycle generation and battery energy storage systems. The role is focused on project cost control, forecasting, variance analysis, and change management, working closely with project and EPC teams. This position offers the chance to contribute to cost-performance reporting on a large-scale capital project environment.

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in project cost control
• Senior- or lead-level capability with a hands-on approach
• Experience in client-side project environments and EPC environments
• Experience supporting large capital projects
• Change-management experience
• Understanding of data-center-related project work

Required Skills:

• Ability to establish and maintain project cost-control processes, budgets, and reporting
• Strong capability in tracking commitments, actual expenditures, accruals, and forecast costs against approved budgets
• Experience preparing cost forecasts, variance analyses, and estimates at completion
• Ability to assess the cost impact of project changes and support change-management processes
• Experience coordinating cost information across engineering, procurement, construction, and scheduling teams
• Ability to review EPC cost reports and identify potential overruns, trends, and financial risks
• Clear cost-performance reporting skills for project leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in power generation, battery energy storage systems, or large capital-project environments
• Knowledge of cost-control systems and software relevant to project delivery

About Airswift:

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.