Cost Controller

Overview

Manage project costs, budgets, forecasts, and reporting for construction projects

Key Responsibilities

• budget management
• cost forecasting
• cost reporting
• data import
• asset management
• trend analysis

Tasks

-Update and maintain budget with approved PCNs. -Attend periodic reviews and establish and maintain forecasts for all packages. -Produce and review with Lead Cost Controller cost report and analyze variances. -Attend periodic reviews and establish and maintain forecasts for all packages and ensure full coding, based on EPCM status report, expenditures (ex Project Accountant) and project changes/trends (e.g. Trend and Change Coordinator). -Assign budget for procurement packages, perform budget reconciliation or scope and pricing and produce reconciliation statements. -Record and maintain commitments based on procurement contracts, contract amendments, contract change notices, PO revisions. -Import detailed actual cost and commitment data into cost system and run complete detailed baseline cost report by package. -Establish with the assistance of the Lead Cost Controller asset management methodology, based on client asset management philosophy (asset register). -Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions -Overview of procurement, contracts, quantity surveying, planning, scheduling and engineering processes and procedures. -Forecast project contingency requirements, escalation, forex, currencies etc. -Generate data and curves for each cost profile (baselines and periodic updates). -Update budget, commitment, forecast, payment and cost statement for monthly report. -Produce asset capitalization report in accordance with client requirements. -Obtain progress info from EPCM Controller and update EPCM status report. -Participate in the trending and change management process and incorporate approved trends into the project estimate at completion.

Requirements

• cost controller
• 5+ years
• engineering
• project management
• estimating
• budgeting

What You Bring

-Sound technical knowledge in a multi-discipline environment. -A minimum of 5 years of experience as a Cost Controller in a multidiscipline project environment. -Tertiary qualification in engineering or related discipline or appropriate project related experience. -Good knowledge of project management principles. -Working knowledge of Estimating and tendering processes. -Good knowledge of budgeting, forecasting final costs, cash flows and estimating.

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Benefits

-Long term career development -Flexible work environment

About Hatch

-Began as a small civil-engineering firm and expanded into metallurgy under its namesake leader. -Now employee-owned and independent, it has grown through strategic acquisitions of engineering firms across North America and beyond. -Offers end-to-end services—from concept and feasibility through design, construction management, and operations—in key sectors. -Projects include heavy industrial and mining operations, hydropower tunnels, green-steel plants, and rail & transit infrastructure. -Specialises in multidisciplinary engineering disciplines including structural, mechanical, civil, piping, electrical, and process design. -Known for integrating advanced tools like 3D parametric design, simulation, CFD, and proprietary Hatch software in project delivery. -Milestones include delivering North America’s Niagara Tunnel Project and pioneering high-current AP60 aluminium smelting pots. -Combines local insight with global expertise to support projects in over 150 countries.

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