Senior Cost Engineer

Nouvall Engineering Services is specialized in project support for the (petro) chemical and maritime industry.
We provide expertise in the field of Engineering, Project Management, Maintenance, Shutdowns, Construction and Safety.

The Cost Engineer will provide the cost engineering services to control the cost of the project from current Execute phase until the end of the construction.

The project cost baselines are controlled throughout the entire lifecycle of the project from Execute to Start up.
Internal factors influencing the job are regular rapid, transparent communication of project cost at completion, forecasting cash flow needs & creation of procedures or work processes to control cost, including monitoring change and their impact.
Important external factors are financing institutions requests, EPCm contractor and sub-contractors.

Job description:
• Responsible for all monthly and interim cost reporting for the Project Delivery Team.
• Assist Scheduler and Project Controls Manager in ad hoc project controls duties as required.
• Ensure that all costs incurred are included in the total project cost.
• Collect data on spending and commitments, post them against estimated values and make a forecast for that particular item of the cost estimate.
• Monitor forecast deviations and report status of these budgets in a timely manner throughout the projects.
• Play a key role in the technical management of all contractors and sub-contractors activities who are responsible in the achievement of the project objectives for cost tracking.
• Ensure that cost risk analysis is performed and applied to forecasting activities.
• Ensures all proposed change requests receive cost impact assessments beginning with Execute project phase.
• Support the auditing efforts by the banker’s engineers chartered by the external financing institutions.

• A Bachelor degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent, is preferred but not mandatory, anyhow there is need to share a common understanding, based on “scientific principles and techniques”, with the engineering function.
• A minimum of 15 years experience in a process industry production and/or engineering environment with large (>$100MM) capital project management experience. Mega-project experience (>$1000MM) preferred.
• Thorough working knowledge of Project Controls practices.
• This job could require periodic travel to the EPCm contractor, IPMT (Reading) office for work with the owner Team and the PMC, and then to be located in Antwerp during the construction and start-up of the facilities.

Technical skills:
• Good understanding of chemical engineering and chemical plant operations and project engineering, quantity surveying.
• Good financial skills: cost classification, cost type, cost accounting, project performance measurement, forecasting, project change management, asset.
• Good working knowledge of cost management tool like EcoSys & SAP PS.

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