CAPEX Controller

Responsibilities and Activities

The Cost Engineer shall provide Project Leadership with forward-looking information identifying expected project cost performance and comparisons against sanctioned targets. This presents an early recognition of potential over- or under-runs and provides project leadership with information to pro-actively influence outcomes.

The primary purpose and minimum responsibilities of a Lonza Cost Engineer are detailed below:

• Provide support in the development of Project Cost Estimates and transition from Estimate to Control Budget.
• Identify and establish all project interfaces (including systems) and shall identify the protocols, responsibilities, and points of contact for administering and controlling these interfaces.
• Provide accurate and timely Cost Reports to Project Leadership and other stakeholders for inputs to the corporate reporting deadlines.
• Ensure that the Engineering Partner and other Contractors (as applicable) have proper methodologies and tools in line with the applicable project control requirement (i.e. Application for Payment process, material trending, productivity analysis, change log. etc).
• Establish at project level processes that supports the Cost Management requirements.
• Maintain the cost reporting (Budget, Commitments, Value of Work Done assessment, Accruals, Foreign Exchange, Estimate to Complete, Estimate at Completion, Phasing) for the entire project based on internal and 3rd Party supplier inputs, validated by an independent evaluation, verification and integrating of same into overall Lonza reporting.
• Support Project Leadership in managing project resources and forecasting overruns or potential savings.
• Provide Project Leadership with accurate, timely and robust estimates and reports of EAC.
• Support the Project Change, Risk & Opportunity Management on the cost impact calculation.
• Establish control of the contingency draw down and run down according to guidelines.
• Support project close out activities including support of asset activation and commercial close out and benchmarking.
• Provide management, oversight and support to other cost engineers as required.

Your background

• Degree or advanced degree from an accredited college or university, Engineering, Science, Quantity Surveyor equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience as a Cost Engineer for large (>250 Mio CHF) pharmaceutical projects in EPCm organisations and preferably having working experience as Client representative in Pharma Companies.
• Ability to interpret cost data in a consistent and efficient manner and articulate relevant information to senior management.
• Excellent written and oral communications and interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Proficiency in SAP, SAP Ariba and Oracle Primavera Unifier knowledge is desirable.
• Experience in pharmaceutical projects using Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning type contracts.