Principal Cost | Adelaide

• Apply cost engineering standards, methodologies, and best practices across projects and programs.
• Provide prinicipal cost engineering support to project teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain project cost baselines, ensuring alignment with approved business cases and funding approvals.
• Monitor project performance and reconcile actual costs and forecasts against approved budgets.
• Implement and maintain appropriate cost control frameworks based on project scope, complexity, and contracting strategy.
• Ensure project costs, commitments, accruals, and forecasts are accurately recorded and maintained within Cost Management Systems.
• Analyse cost performance and apply Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques, where appropriate, to identify trends and forecast outcomes.
• Facilitate, monitor, and report project changes in accordance with project change management processes, assessing impacts on cost and schedule.
• Identify cost risks and opportunities and recommend corrective or preventative actions to support project objectives.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of cost engineering processes, systems, standards, and reporting practices.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing across project teams and cost engineering practitioners.
• Manage expectations and review deliverables from implementation partners, contractors, and third-party service providers to ensure quality outcomes.
• Coordinate and facilitate monthly project status and cost reporting activities.

• Extensive experience in a project environment within Cost Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Project Controls, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in cost control and project cost management, ideally within both EPCM and Owner's team environments.
• Broad project experience across the full project lifecycle, from concept and development through execution and close-out.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, systems, and controls.
• Experience supporting capital projects across various project phases within an Owner's or EPCM environment.
• Proven ability to deliver accurate, high-quality work while managing competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Commitment to quality, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Experience using Cost Management Systems such as Ecosys, Prism, CMS, or similar platforms.
• Sound understanding of Cost Engineering principles, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, change management, and performance measurement techniques.
• Experience facilitating and coordinating monthly project reporting processes.
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Business (Finance or Accounting), Project Controls, or a related discipline are preferred but not essential.
• Equivalent industry experience will also be considered.

Applications are open until 15 Sep 2026.