Project Cost Engineer

Position: Project Cost Engineer

Location: Calama, Chile

Rotation: 8 weeks on / 2 weeks off

Accommodation: Provided

Flights & Transportation: Provided

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: Long-term project assignment The Project Cost Engineer provides project management and construction management support, cost and schedule analysis, reporting, and general project controls support. This contract role is suited to a detail-oriented project controls professional who can evaluate complex issues, validate progress and costs, and help teams identify practical corrective actions in a fast-paced capital project environment.

Job Duties

Project Controls and Analysis

- Provide guidance, direction, and specialized assistance to resolve difficult project controls issues using industry knowledge, innovative approaches, and review of engineering alternatives.
- Analyze, evaluate, and forecast project status against the established baseline schedule; identify potential construction issues and impacts and recommend corrective actions.
- Assess the cost and schedule impacts of design or construction changes, process improvements, requests for information, and differing site conditions.
- Estimate material, equipment, and labor quantities and costs to validate project estimates, change orders, and scope changes through review of drawings, sketches, calculations, and related documentation.
- Identify out-of-scope changes during design reviews and document quantity variances using material take-offs from design documents.
- Validate reported progress percentages against established rules of credit through spot checks of design documentation and construction progress.

Engineering and Construction Coordination

- Apply engineering, procurement, and construction terminology, concepts, and relationships to the scope of work while supporting adherence to safety and quality standards.
- Review and process engineering submittals, track progress, and coordinate reviews with the project manager, project team members, and other stakeholders as directed.
- Analyze survey reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, aerial photography,



and topographical or geologic data to support project planning.
- Review contractor equipment logs, timesheets, supplier invoices, and contracts to confirm equipment and personnel are utilized as specified.
- Review contractor schedules for accuracy and alignment with the master schedule; evaluate design sets and other project documents to confirm milestones, sequencing, and schedule compliance.

Change Management and Reporting

- Assist with processing project change notices and reporting changes through the Client’s change management system.
- Assist with compilation of weekly, monthly, and quarterly project reports.
- Perform other duties as required.

Job Requirements

Education and Experience

- High school diploma or GED and eleven (11) years of experience in engineering, construction, project controls, or a business-related field, including at least six (6) years in a project controls leadership role; or
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field and seven (7) years of construction management experience, including at least four (4) years in a project controls leadership role.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
- Fluency in English.
- Working knowledge of construction methodology, engineering documentation, cost forecasting, schedule analysis, and project change control.

Preferred Experience

- Experience with project management systems such as Primavera, Aconex, EcoSys, and SAP.

Role Scope
- Works on moderately complex issues and typically implements solutions through individual effort.




- Collaborates primarily within the department or work group, with limited interaction with external colleagues.
- Works under frequent supervision with limited latitude to set objectives, priorities, and timelines for the assigned area of work.
- No budgetary responsibility and no direct management responsibility for people, functions, projects, or programs.

Physical Requirements The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

About Teal Energi

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.

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