Lead Cost Analyst

Description

As a Capital Projects Lead Cost Analyst, you will apply technical expertise to monitor, analyze, and report cost performance for capital infrastructure projects. You will interface with project management, client management, and site personnel to develop budgets and cost metrics across engineering, procurement, and construction scopes, using both industry‑standard and proprietary tools.

Key responsibilities include implementing project controls methodology, supporting month‑end closing and phase‑gate processes, establishing original and approved budgets, creating cost baselines, developing forecasts, and analyzing variances between actual and forecasted costs. You will also assemble supporting documentation, generate reports for decision‑making, and regularly interface with project managers to track cost performance, with occasional travel to client offices for coordination meetings.

• Implement project controls tools and methodology.
• Support month‑end closing and phase‑gate processes, including coordination, production, management, reporting, and cost analysis.
• Establish original and approved project budgets.
• Work with stakeholders to set cost baselines.
• Develop project forecasts using estimates, schedules, purchase orders, and stakeholder inputs; review and adjust forecasts with project managers.
• Monitor and analyze actual project costs, calculate variances, and document explanations.
• Assemble supporting documentation for project team and client requests.
• Analyze data and build reports to support monitoring and decision‑making.
• Interface regularly with project management to track cost performance.
• Travel to client offices for project coordination meetings as needed.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least ten years of project experience, a post‑secondary degree, and familiarity with practical project controls. Strong written and verbal communication, motivation to learn, and meticulous attention to detail are essential. Technical requirements include advanced MS Excel or PowerBI, working knowledge of SAP, and proficiency in MS Office.

• 10+ years of project experience.
• Post‑secondary graduate.
• Familiarity with practical application of project controls.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Motivated to learn and deliver high‑quality, accurate deliverables.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and/or PowerBI for interactive spreadsheets and databases.
• Working knowledge of SAP.
• Related internship, co‑op, or work experience in project controls, planning, scheduling, or earned value performance, preferably in the power industry.
• AACE CCT, PMI equivalent, or working towards AACE CCP, CEP, PSP, PRMP, EVP, or PMI certifications.
• Completed equivalent training or passed designated proficiency testing.

Benefits

This position offers a hybrid work arrangement, requiring three days per week onsite and allowing two days of remote work. The flexibility supports work‑life balance while maintaining collaboration with the project team.

Sargent & Lundy provides a competitive compensation range of $116,620 to $179,890, comprehensive health and wellness plans, generous paid time off, and flexible work arrangements. The company has earned the Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Award for three consecutive years and offers a broad suite of benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life and accident insurance, disability coverage, 401(k), tuition assistance, and various employee bonuses. Sargent & Lundy is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

• Medical, dental, and vision health plans.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Disability coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Back‑up daycare.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA).
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Pre‑tax commuter account.
• Merit scholarship program.
• Employee discount program.
• Corporate charitable giving program.
• Tuition assistance.
• First professional licensure bonus.
• Employee referral bonus.
• Paid annual personal/sick time.
• Paid vacation, holidays, parental leave, and bereavement leave.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Eligibility for yearly discretionary bonus.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance