# Cost Engineer

**Company:** Easy Skill
**Department:** Project Management & Controls
**Role:** Cost Controller
**Location:** Papua New Guinea

**Location:** FIFO to Hiri-Koiari District, Central Province, Papua New Guinea  
**Duration:** Long-term Contract

## 1. Client Description

The organization is a leading industrial resources and minerals company executing major greenfield processing plant developments. The company focuses on building sustainable infrastructure, emphasizing operational efficiency, rigorous project controls, and environmental excellence.

## 2. Scope

- **Location** : Kido Site, **Papua New Guinea**.

- **Employment & Roster** : Long-term contract on a **Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO)** rotational arrangement (Expatriate assignment).

- **Hierarchy** : Reports directly to the Project Controls Manager.

- **Role Purpose** : Provide comprehensive project cost engineering services, guiding the site team on cost forecasting, baseline cash flows, variance trending, and supervising junior cost controllers to ensure financial alignment across execution activities.

## 3. Key Responsibilities

- **Cost Control Strategy & Baselining** : Develop integrated cost control plans aligned with group standards; establish WBS-to-Cost Breakdown Structure integrity, invoice approval workflows, and detailed baseline cash flows.

- **Progress Tracking & Earned Value Management (EVM)**: Track progress using EVM principles (CPI/SPI); analyze root causes of variances, forecast trending impacts, and recommend recovery actions.

- **Schedule & Commercial Integration** : Interface closely with scheduling, procurement, and accounting teams to resolve schedule conflicts, assess commercial contract risks, and evaluate variation order (VO) requests.

- **Reporting & Governance** : Deliver high-accuracy cost performance updates, S-curves, and cash-flow adjustments to the Project Controls Manager while maintaining auditable data integrity.

- **Team Leadership** : Supervise, mentor, and guide junior cost controllers and administrators to maintain consistency, compliance, and precision across site cost operations.

## 4. Qualifications

- **Education** : Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Quantity Surveying, or Engineering with financial control coursework.

- **Experience** :

- **Technical Proficiency** :

- **Certifications (Desirable)**: Project Management certification (e.g., PMP) or formal Cost Engineering credentials (AACE, CIMA, or equivalent).

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