Cost Control/Planning Engineer

Job description / Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible to control and monitor project total expenditure including verifying and checking of invoices and claims from suppliers, vendors and subcontractors to ensure that all project expenditures are captured and properly recorded.
• Provide planning and cost controlling support for all projects which includes variation reporting, monitoring of milestone progress to the preparation of customer billing processes, etc
• Perform and manage project activity scheduling and monitoring
• Perform technical and commercial review of subcontractor’s quotations for the preparation of Service agreements
• Ensure effective project implementation and utilize productive reports with the use of project management system to monitor the status of all purchases, invoicing, and delivery up to the closure of the project.
• Prepare monthly project movement report for the monitoring of the project activities on a daily basis and register all downtime, consumptions and manpower related issues
relating to the project promptly to the project manager and management.
• Coordinate and work with the project management team and with the other departments to resolve project issues to ensure the delivery/completion of the project work.
• Attend project meetings and discussions with the Project Management Team and external clients
• Perform project costing related reporting to the team and management’s review monthly to ensure that expenditures are kept within the project budget.
• Provide cost control and planning advice to the internal Project Management Team as and when required.
• Undertake any other ad-hoc duties as required.