Project Cost Specialist

KODIAK Construction Recruiting & Staffing; Odessa (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

KODIAK Construction Recruiting & Staffing is seeking a Project Controls professional to support cost management activities on EPC/oil & gas projects in the United States. The role emphasizes accurate reporting, budgeting, and change management across multiple projects.

Responsibilities include developing weekly cost reports, maintaining labor and cost tracking, and assisting with forward-looking analyses and mitigation plans. Travel to job sites may be required as part of progress audits.

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls, cost management, trend and change management in EPC/oil & gas preferred.
• Engineering or construction management degree or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a team and independently while managing a large workload and meeting deadlines.
• Must be able to travel to job sites and perform site walks for progress audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive cost control reports and forecasts to project management.
• Develop and maintain multiple cost reports on a weekly basis for internal and client use.
• Maintain weekly and monthly labor progress and cost tracking reports for indirect labor, rental equipment, and subcontracts.
• Assist with development and maintenance of change management systems including change orders and budget shifts.
• Provide timely forward-looking analysis and mitigation plans to reduce unforeseen cost impacts.
• Participate in bi-weekly or monthly reviews of all cost controls deliverables with the project team.
• Assist management in forecasting project costs for monthly reporting.
• Develop and maintain budgets in progress tracking tools.
• Assist with auditing payroll coding on a weekly basis.
• Perform data audits to ensure information accuracy.
• Liaise with procurement and billing departments.
• Conduct costs corrections.
• Understand earned value management systems.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Cost reporting

Forecasting

Budget control

Communication

Teamwork

Travel

Education

Engineering or Construction Management degree

Tools

Excel

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

• To provide comprehensive cost control, reports and forecasts to project management and support the overall success of the project.
• Develop and maintain multiple project cost reports (both internal & client) on a weekly basis.
• Develop and maintain multiple reports on weekly and monthly labor progress and performance reports (both internal and client), project cost tracking reports for indirect labor, rental equipment, and subcontracts.
• Assist with development and maintenance of change management system including change orders, budget shifts, and trends including contingency management.
• Timely and accurate forward-looking analysis and mitigation plan development to reduce or eliminate unforeseen cost impacts.
• Actively participate in bi-weekly or monthly reviews of all cost controls deliverables with the project team.
• Assist management in forecasting the project expected costs for monthly reporting.
• Develop and maintain budgets in progress tracking tool.
• Assist with auditing payroll coding on a weekly basis.
• Perform data audits to ensure accuracy of information.
• Liaison with the procurement and billing departments
• Conduct costs corrections.
• Understand earned value management systems.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Experience in project controls, cost management, trend and change management, and/or project management experience with an EPC contractor or in the Oil and Gas Industry preferable.
• Degree in engineering or construction management in lieu of experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of tools a must, especially Excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to convey information.
• Ability to work within a team as well as independently while prioritizing a large volume work and maintaining the highest quality.
• Must be able to work fast track and meet deadlines.
• Ability to travel to job sites to perform job duties, including walking construction site for progress audits.