Senior Cost Controller

The role

Our client is an engineering and construction contractor delivering a multi-billion, large-scale data centre development in Norway. As the programme continues to grow, they are expanding the project team across several new contracts. You'll join at a key stage, work on a complex multi-discipline scope, help shape processes and ways of working, and work directly with senior project leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Manage project cost control, including budgets, cost reporting, forecasting and cash flow
• Track and report commitments, actuals, forecast final cost and variances
• Support change management by identifying, documenting and quantifying changes, and supporting change order negotiations
• Work closely with the contract, risk and commercial teams so cost data reflects contractual positions
• Review subcontractor and supplier costs, progress and claims
• Build and improve cost control routines, templates and reporting as the project's processes develop
• Produce clear management and client reporting

Requirements

• 5 to 10+ years' cost control experience on major projects
• Background in oil and gas, offshore or onshore projects, or fast-track data centre or industrial construction
• Project-based experience (on site or in the project team, not head office only)
• Understanding of contracts and Bills of Quantities
• Experience with complex multi-discipline scopes (mechanical, electrical, piping)
• Strong Excel and cost control systems skills
• Right to work in Norway, and fluent English
• Willingness to travel to sites