Project Cost Lead

TealEnergi; Arizona; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TealEnergi in Arizona seeks a Project Controls Engineer III, Lead Cost to support cost analysis, forecasting and reporting across engineering, procurement and construction activities. You will work under the Project Controls Manager to analyze performance and present cost metrics to project and corporate stakeholders.

The role emphasizes maintaining cost-control processes, evaluating change impacts, and ensuring alignment with scope.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related field plus 6–8 years of project-controls experience.
• High school diploma or GED with 12+ years in engineering, construction, or project controls.
• Proven experience with project cost control, estimating, forecasting, cost management and reporting.
• Experience using SAP and ERP systems; advanced Excel skills; Word/Outlook proficiency.
• Experience with Oracle Primavera P6 and EcoSys preferred.
• Ability to interpret drawings, takeoffs, calculations, contracts, and invoices.
• Strong communication, multitasking, and teamwork in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain cost-control chart of accounts by work breakdown structure.
• Compile and report project cost elements including accruals, forecasts, and changes.
• Forecast performance against cost and schedule baselines for complex scopes.
• Assess cost effects of changes and identify potential cost growth and schedule slippage.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction to ensure alignment with scope.
• Review logs, invoices, and contracts to verify usage of equipment and personnel.
• Provide guidance to Cost Engineers and Project Controls Specialists.
• Present cost-performance information to stakeholders.

Skills

Cost control

Forecasting

Reporting

Change management

Risk analysis

Communication

Project coordination

Multitasking

Safety awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related field

High school diploma or GED with 12 years of experience

Tools

SAP

Oracle Primavera P6

EcoSys

Excel

Word/Outlook

Job description

Project Controls Engineer III, Lead Cost

Location: Arizona

Summary:

The Project Controls Engineer III, Lead Cost provides project controls support for engineering, procurement, and construction activities, with a primary focus on cost analysis, forecasting, reporting, change management, and cost-control systems. Working under moderate supervision and reporting to the Project Controls Manager, this position analyzes project performance, identifies cost and schedule risks, develops practical solutions, and presents cost-performance information to project and corporate stakeholders.

Job Duties:

Cost Control and Forecasting

• Define and maintain the project cost-control chart of accounts by work breakdown structure, using detailed estimates to provide visibility into engineering, procurement, construction, and contracting strategies.
• Compile, validate, analyze, and report project cost elements, including accruals, commitments, forecasts, and changes.
• Analyze and forecast project performance against established cost and schedule baselines for complex scopes of work.
• Estimate material, equipment, and labor quantities and costs to validate project estimates, change orders, and scope changes.
• Prepare estimates for minor scopes of work for review by the Project Controls Manager.
• Review design drawings, sketches, calculations, material takeoffs, and other engineering or construction information to support cost evaluations.

Change Management and Risk Analysis

• Process project change notices and maintain accurate change logs.
• Manage the cost component of the project change-management process and report changes through the applicable change-management system.
• Identify out-of-scope changes during design reviews and document quantity variances based on material takeoffs.
• Assess the cost and schedule effects of engineering, procurement, and construction changes, including potential cost growth and schedule slippage.
• Evaluate requests for information, proposed process improvements, and differing site conditions for potential cost and schedule impacts.
• Identify project-control issues, recommend corrective actions, and collaborate with project team members to resolve concerns.

Reporting and Performance Communication

• Compile the cost-related portions of weekly, monthly, and quarterly project reports.
• Prepare, analyze, and present reports, charts, tables, forecasts, trends, and project-risk information.
• Present weekly and monthly project cost performance to project and corporate stakeholders.
• Communicate cost status, trends, risks, and recommended actions clearly to internal and external project stakeholders.

Project Coordination and Compliance

• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, and other project-control functions to ensure alignment with the approved scope of work.
• Apply an understanding of detailed construction methodologies to identify potential project issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Review engineering alternatives and contribute technical knowledge to the development of efficient project-control solutions.
• Help ensure project activities adhere to applicable safety and quality standards.
• Review and audit contractor equipment logs, timesheets, supplier invoices, and contracts to verify that equipment and personnel are used as specified.
• Collaborate with departmental, corporate, and external colleagues on moderately complex project-control matters.
• Provide guidance to Cost Engineers and Project Controls Specialists when assigned.
• Perform other duties as required.

Job Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED with at least 12 years of experience in engineering, construction, project controls, or a business-related field; or
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field with six to eight years of project-controls experience supporting major heavy-industry projects.
• Demonstrated experience with project cost control, estimating, forecasting, cost management, and reporting.
• Experience using enterprise resource planning systems and SAP.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Outlook.
• Experience with Oracle Primavera P6 and EcoSys is preferred.
• Knowledge of accounting functions and financial systems.
• Experience supporting heavy industrial construction projects.
• Ability to interpret design drawings, material takeoffs, calculations, estimates, contracts, invoices, and construction documentation.
• Understanding of engineering, procurement, construction, and project-control processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
• Ability to work with limited supervision, establish priorities, and manage timelines within an assigned area of responsibility.
• Ability to recognize occupational hazards and follow appropriate safety precautions in a construction environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with project teams, contractors, suppliers, corporate stakeholders, and other functional groups.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

About Teal Energi:

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.

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