Contract: Cost Engineer / Belgium

We are looking for a Cost Engineer to join a major chemicals operator in Antwerp supporting a major project on a long term contract.

As Cost Engineer you will provide the cost engineering services to control the cost of the project from start of Execute until the end of the construction.

The project cost baselines are controlled throughout the entire lifecycle of the project from Execute to start up. Internal factors influencing the job are regular rapid, transparent communication of project cost at completion, forecasting cash flow needs & creation of procedures or work processes to control cost, including monitoring change and their impact. Important external factors are financing institutions requests, EPCm contractor and sub-contractors.

Accountabilities of the role include describing the main results that are expected from the job Assist in reviewing PAFs mobilising/demobilising and manhours for different contractor’s personnel. You will also assist Scheduler, Lead Cost Engineer and Project Controls Manager in ad hoc project controls duties as required.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all costs incurred are included in the total project cost, including VOWD analysis
• Collect data on spending and commitments, post them against estimated values, and make a forecast for that particular item of the cost estimate.
• Assist Lead Cost Engineer in key quantity tracking, bulk sampling, MTO analysis, unit rate analysis, EVM reporting
• Assist Lead Cost Engineer in drawing up monthly cash flow
• Monitor forecast deviations and report status of these budgets in a timely manner throughout the projects.
• Play a key role in the technical management of all contractors and sub-contractors’ activities who are responsible in the achievement of the project objectives for cost tracking.
• Ensure that cost risk analysis is performed and applied to forecasting activities.
• Ensures all proposed change requests receive cost impact assessments beginning with Execute project phase.
• Support the auditing efforts by the banker’s engineers chartered by the external financing institutions, including commitment information
• Assist Lead Cost Engineer in maintaining EcoSys

Experience required:

• A Bachelor degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent, is preferred but not mandatory, anyhow there is need to share a common understanding, based on “scientific principles and techniques”, with the engineering & construction functions.
• A minimum of 10-15 years experience in a process or civil industry production and/or engineering environment with large (>$100MM) capital project management experience.
• Mega-project experience (>$1000MM) preferred.
• Thorough working knowledge of Project Controls practices.

This job will be based at site office in Antwerp, during the construction and start-up of the facilities. Some work – up to 1 to 2 days a week in the short term - carried out in Third Party Engineering office. Possibility of working in other offices as required on an ad hoc basis.

Technical skills

• Good understanding of civil engineering, chemical engineering and chemical plant operations and project engineering, quantity surveying, construction cost control.
• Good financial skills: cost classification, cost type, cost accounting, project performance measurement, forecasting, project change management, asset management
• Good working knowledge of cost management tool like EcoSys & SAP PS 
• Team work
• Self-starter Professional