Senior Project Cost Engineer

On behalf of one of our customers we are searching for a candidate to fill the position Senior Project Cost Engineer.

As a Senior Cost Engineer, you will play a major role in ensuring the financial success of our projects. You will be responsible for all cost engineering deliverables for a particular project or portfolio of projects. Your expertise will be crucial in maintaining accurate and consistent cost tracking, managing accruals, and providing insightful variance explanations to the Finance department.

Location Stavanger. Long term assignment. Startup april 2026.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee internal and external project cost status reporting.
• Ensure accurate and consistent cost tracking.
• Manage accruals, forecasts, cash flow inputs, invoice handling, and preparation of requisitions.
• Deliver variance explanations to the Finance department.
• Develop and maintain the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Handle project changes with cost impact (management of Change).
• Contribute to Baseline updates
• Identify, analyze, and track cost changes versus sanctioned budgets.
• Develop and manage contingency drawdown plans.
• Prepare and follow-up on Manpower Projection Plans and man-hour cost estimates.
• Correlate cost data with other project data (schedules, manpower, productivity, etc.), investigate variances, prepare analysis, highlight inconsistencies, and propose mitigating actions.
• Provide general Project Management support.
• Utilize tools such as SAP, EcoSys, PowerBI, and Pims.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in cost engineering.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with various departments.

Please send your CV and application to post@rightskills.no and mark the application “Senior Project Cost Engineer”