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Lead Cost Control Engineer
Customer Project Management; LPB
- Type:
- Full Time
- Location(s):
- William Bagnall Drive, Lord Nelson Building, Stafford, England ST16 1WS, United Kingdom
- Date Posted:
- Salary:
- Job Posting Start Date:
- 2025-12-02-08:00
- Job Posting End Date:
- Job ID:
- R5012963
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Job Description
At GE Vernova Grid Solutions, we are at the forefront of the energy transition, providing cutting-edge grid technologies to create a more reliable and sustainable energy future. With over 13,000 dedicated employees globally, we are committed to integrating renewable energy sources into the grid and driving towards a carbon-neutral world.
Job Description Summary
About Us:At GE Vernova Grid Solutions, we are at the forefront of the energy transition, providing cutting-edge grid technologies to create a more reliable and sustainable energy future. With over 13,000 dedicated employees globally, we are committed to integrating renewable energy sources into the grid and driving towards a carbon-neutral world.
Job Description
Why Join Us?
- Make a Difference: Be part of a team that is pioneering the energy transition and making a tangible impact on the world.
- Innovative Projects: Work on unique, challenging, and game-changing projects that push the boundaries of what’s possible.
- Collaborative Environment: Join a community of committed, loyal colleagues who are passionate about finding the best solutions.
- Growth Opportunities: Enjoy competitive benefits, private health insurance, and great development opportunities in a dynamic, international working environment.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Maintains project cost to complete budgets in alignment with as sold position and in coordination with budget holders, consistently with actual progress and trend.
- Supports forecast estimation and verifies the accuracy of the actual to date cost (material, labor, manufactured costs, suppliers’ invoices, timesheets, travel expenses).
- Drive and challenge budget at completion, with analysis through various means (earned value, productivity, cost ratio, market trends…). Validates accuracy of estimates.
- Develop mitigations / catch up plans in alignment with functional leaders and Project Manager.
- Aligns with project team and time schedule to ensure forecasted cost risks are accurately captured and costs time phased.
- Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.
- Communicates cost status / forecasts / risk to budget holders and drives / supports risk mitigation and cost out.
- Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status, budget deviations and root causes.
- Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
- Aligns with planner to ensure costs and schedule are aligned, providing time phased cost forecasts for sales pacing.
- Reports on cost movement root causes impacting sales targets.
- Support disputes and analysis of claims.
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree in engineering (with financial awareness)
- Advanced and demonstrated years experience of cost controls / project controls / project management on large & complex or turnkey infrastructure projects.
- Experience in risk management processes and tools.
- Knowledge of ERP systems is an asset (SAP preferred).
- Experience managing small teams within a large project is an asset.
- Project planning experience / good P6 planning software understanding is an asset.
What we offer:
A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements
Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities - including private health insurance.
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you are passionate about driving the energy transition and want to be part of a team that is electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies, apply now!
Apply Today and Be Part of the Change!
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No