Senior Cost Controller - (Site Based)

Senior Cost Controller – Site Based

If you’re looking for a career with a company that has a ‘Can Do’ attitude, then look no further than Primero. We’re a team of skilled and determined problem solvers, who back our projects, and each other. We’re energised by our culture, anchored by our values, and driven to deliver for our clients. Join us if you take pride in having a ‘Can Do’ attitude.

About Us

Primero, a subsidiary of NRW Holdings, is a multi-national engineering, procurement, and construction business. Since we were founded in 2011, we’ve grown and diversified, delivering projects in over ten different countries, spanning five continents, from locations in Australia and North America. Our rapid growth is testament to our ability to deliver quality project outcomes, safely and on time.

Working with us you’ll learn from some of the brightest and smartest minds in the business, while delivering important projects throughout Australia and overseas, giving you the opportunity to gain access to unique experiences across a huge range of sectors, from gold to lithium and new energy.

Find out what a career at Primero can do for you.

Your Opportunity

Reporting to the Project Controls Manager, this site-based Senior Cost Controller will be responsible for budget management, expenditure control and forecasting to assist our project teams in ensuring completion within approved cost, schedule, quality and performance criteria. Reporting financial performance within a Large Scale Construction Project. This role will be site based on a 2:1 Roster for 12+ Months.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Compliance and Improvement: Adhere to all Primero procedures, standards, and processes, while proactively identifying areas for improvement.
• Project Controls Procedures Development: Assist in developing the project controls management plan, and project-specific procedures and processes.
• Budget Management: Translate estimates into approved project control budgets based on the project execution philosophy. Establish and monitor project budgets using cost management software (InEight).
• Schedule Alignment: Collaborate with Planners to align schedules and costs through WBS, CBS, resources, and activities.
• Performance Analysis: Monitor and analyse commitments and actuals to ensure correct coding, budgeting, and forecasting, supporting accurate performance analysis and commitment tracking.
• Forecasting and Analysis: Prepare project forecasts, conduct detailed analyses, identify trends, propose mitigations, and provide commentary.
• Data Collection and Reporting: Collect, validate, analyse, and report actual and earned hours, along with associated trends and movements.
• Change Control: Monitor, analyse, and report on change control, focusing on key drivers of deviations and early trends. Maintain continuous communication and dissemination of change impacts through the MOC register.
• Reporting Deliverables: Prepare, collate, and deliver project controls reporting deliverables.
• Risk & Opportunity Management: Assist in identifying risks and opportunities and suggest mitigation strategies.
• Contract Management: Understand scopes, pricing schedules, commercial frameworks, and reporting obligations against the head contract. HSE Responsibilities: Meet all role-specific HSE responsibilities, accountabilities, and KPIs as per the Primero HSE Management procedures and plans.

What You ‘Can Do’

• University degree preferred (Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Accounting or similar discipline), but not essential.
• AACE / ACES qualification preferred, but not essential.
• Greater than 5 years’ experience in cost engineering or cost control is essential
• Experience in Construction and Engineering, particularly in the Resources and Mining industries.
• Experienced operator of a cost management tool essential.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Construction methodology to assist with forecasting.
• Strong statistical and analytical reporting skills.
• Strong proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel and PowerBI.
• Proactively, purposefully, and efficiently completes tasks to meet internal and external requirements
• Interpersonal skills
• Can work under pressure while prioritising and delegating tasks
• A keen eye for detail
• Team focused
• Strong safety attitude

What we ‘Can Do’ for you:

• Competitive Compensation
• Career Opportunities
• Paid Parental Leave
• Health and Wellbeing Support
• Benefits & Discounts
• Employee Referral Rewards

If you're looking for a career where you experience more 'Can Do', then we're the team for you.

Find out what a Primero career Can Do for you.

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Primero is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages female, veteran and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants.

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