Sr. Cost Control Engineer

The role

The Cost Control Engineer will own the cost baseline, forecast, and change control on capital projects. You will build cost breakdown structures, track commitments and actuals, and automate the reporting pipeline.

What you will do

• Build the WBS and cost breakdown structure and convert the sanctioned estimate into a control budget
• Track purchase orders, subcontracts, change orders, and field costs reconciled to the ERP
• Maintain estimate to complete and estimate at completion by control account
• Set rules of credit with the planner and measure physical progress
• Identify, quantify, and route potential changes for approval
• Track contingency and management reserve against the risk register
• Maintain the project cash flow and funding curve
• Review contractor invoices and progress claims against measured progress and contract terms
• Create, issue and present the project cost report and dashboards
• Automate the data pipeline from ERP, procurement, and schedule into reports

Required qualifications

• 5–12 years of project cost control on capital projects in mining, minerals, refining, chemicals, power, or heavy civil
• Applied earned value management on a live project
• Hands-on with a project cost management system such as EcoSys, InEight, Prism, or Procore
• Hands-on with an ERP such as SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite
• Advanced Excel
• SQL, Power BI, or Python at a level where you build your own reporting
• Experience running a trend and change management process end to end
• Comfortable with commitments versus actuals, accruals, capitalization, and funding authorization mechanics

Nice to have

• BS in engineering, construction management, finance, or a related field
• Senior candidates will have owned cost on a project above $100M total installed cost
• AACE Certified Cost Professional or Certified Cost Technician, or PMI credentials

About the company

Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies.