Project Cost Controller
We are seeking a highly skilled Project Cost Controller to join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers in Newcastle or Singleton. In this role, you will work with the Project Management Executive and wider Mining, Infrastructure & Project Delivery team.
The successful candidate will utilize their understanding of the project life cycle to articulate project controls processes internally and externally. They will support the team on multidisciplinary mining projects and studies, ensuring the effective management of costs and schedules.
Main Responsibilities:
* Establish and manage the initial project cost and schedule baseline for Mining Infrastructure studies and projects.
* Prepare and review relevant project documentation.
* Gather input data from Project Engineers and Project Managers to ensure the Cost Management system outputs aligns payment claims.
* Articulate project controls processes to internal and external stakeholders.
* Partake in a client-facing role, allowing you to resolve issues and understand client needs.
* Oversee the claim life cycle from initiation to processing.
* Work with study managers to review and report on progress costs, including earned value, for multidisciplinary studies of varying complexity and size.
* Support the monitoring and allocation of key resources across studies and projects through the establishment and maintenance of a portfolio of projects in each phase of pursuit and execution such as identification, proposal, execution, and close out.
* Review reports and other outputs and provide technical input into a diverse range of projects and ensure that work produced complies with quality systems and client requirements.
* Support the preparation and costing of high-quality proposals.
About You:
* Bachelor degree (Finance) or equivalent relevant tertiary education (Certificate, Diploma, and/or Degree) related to planning.
* Demonstrated industry experience on both multidisciplinary mining projects and studies.
* Experience in cost control and earned value management.
* Demonstrated experience in cost control on large multidisciplinary studies and projects.
* Independent thinker able to challenge norms, develop new ideas.
* Proficient in MS Office and cost/finance software reporting packages.
* Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work virtually and face-to-face within a team environment, including the motivation and development of others within your team.
* A commitment to diversity, environment, health, safety, and society.
About Our Company:
* Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work.
* It is supported by our Guiding Principles:
o We value our people and our reputation.
o We are locally dedicated with international scale.
o We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
o We foster collaboration in everything we do.
o We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.