Cost Control Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Monitor project costs, budgets, forecasts, commitments, and cash flow throughout the project lifecycle; identify variances, trends, and possible overruns.
• Prepare weekly and monthly cost reports covering budgets, actual costs, commitments, forecasts, and variance analysis.
• Maintain cost-control records, cost codes, budget allocations, and project financial data.
• Review purchase requests, purchase orders, invoices, subcontractor commitments, and other cost transactions.
• Monitor subcontractor and supplier costs and allocate them accurately against approved budgets and cost codes.
• Support budget planning, cost optimization, and financial forecasting with Project Management and Commercial teams.
• Coordinate with site and construction teams to verify progress, quantities, productivity, and work performed.
• Monitor variations, change orders, and budget revisions; document and assess cost impacts.
• Prepare cash-flow forecasts and update cost-to-complete and estimate-at-completion figures.
• Analyze expenditure against physical progress and provide early warnings of potential cost overruns.
• Ensure accurate cost capture and coordinate consistent cost information across project teams.
• Support the Project Controls Lead and comply with company procedures, project requirements, quality standards, and HSE policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Architecture, or Construction Management.
• 3–7 years of relevant experience in cost control, project controls, or commercial functions in construction, fit-out, hospitality, or luxury hotel projects.
• Proven experience on high-end hotel, resort, commercial, or interior fit-out projects.
• Strong understanding of construction and fit-out cost structures, including labor, materials, subcontractors, procurement, and site overheads.
• Knowledge of budgeting, cost forecasting, cash-flow management, commitments, accruals, cost-to-complete analysis, reporting, dashboards, variations, and change orders.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and SUMIFS; experience with ERP and/or project cost-control systems.
• Knowledge of Primavera P6 and Power BI is an advantage.
• Strong analytical, numerical, problem-solving, communication, coordination, organizational, and time-management skills; attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
• Good knowledge of quality, HSE, and project-control procedures.
• Fluent English is required; Arabic is an advantage.
• Willingness to work on project sites and travel between project locations when required.

Preferred experience

• Experience in luxury hotels and resorts, hospitality projects, high-end interior fit-out, commercial fit-out, residential and mixed-use developments, or large-scale construction projects is preferred.

Work location

• The role may require work on project sites and travel between project locations.