Senior Cost Engineer - Change Management and Forecasting (On-site) - Corsicana, TX or Sweetwater, TX
On-siteCorsicana, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Evaluate and forecast potential, pending, approved, and disputed changes, including PCOs, change orders, and construction change directives. Review scope, quantities, labor rates, materials, and subcontractor quotations to identify scope gaps, unsupported costs, and unreasonable assumptions. Develop independent cost assessments and risk-adjusted inputs for project budgets, commitments, cash flow, and EAC, applying probability and financial impact to unresolved exposure. Track changes from identification through resolution, maintain auditable records, and monitor contingency utilization. Coordinate with project management, engineering, procurement, and contractors to support claims, allowance reconciliation, and final account closeout. Provide controlled change and forecast inputs to the Senior Cost Engineer, Cost Control and Reporting team.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressive experience in construction cost engineering, change management, forecasting, cost control, project controls, commercial cost management, quantity surveying, or a related discipline.
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Engineering Management, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on experience evaluating construction changes and maintaining forecasts on large capital projects, including reviewing scope, quantities, labor, materials, equipment, quotations, productivity assumptions, markups, and supporting documentation.
- Strong knowledge of change, trend, and contingency management; cost forecasting; variance analysis; and EAC development.
- Ability to independently evaluate contractor submissions and identify scope gaps, unsupported or duplicated costs, incomplete documentation, and commercially unreasonable assumptions.
- Experience maintaining change-order, trend, contingency, allowance, exposure, and forecast records and incorporating risk-weighted pending or unresolved changes into forecasts.
- Understanding of how design development, field conditions, procurement, schedule movement, sequencing, and risk affect project costs and forecasts.
- Strong commercial judgment, communication, analysis, organization, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with SAP, Oracle, EcoSys, Unifier, Power BI, or similar platforms.
- Current US work permit required.
- This position does not offer sponsorship for employment, including H-1B visa sponsorship or transfer.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, or MEP-intensive programs in an owner's representative, consultancy, general contractor, EPC, quantity surveying, or major capital-program environment.
- Experience evaluating changes under GMP, lump-sum, design-build, CMAR, cost-plus, or EPC delivery models.
- Experience assessing schedule-related costs, extended general conditions, acceleration, disruption, productivity impacts, and claims.
- Experience with EVM, integrated cost-schedule-risk analysis, cash flow, probabilistic forecasting, claims, allowances, contingency drawdown, retention release, final account negotiation, and unresolved changes.
- AACE Certified Cost Professional, RICS, PMP, or equivalent certification.
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