Senior Cost Engineer​/Cost Control Lead (On-site) - Corsicana, TX or Sweetwater, TX

Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in.

We approach each client engagement as a partnership
, creating an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish while regulating growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.

We are seeking a highly experienced, hands‑on Senior Cost Engineer
/
Cost Control Lead to support practical construction cost management across large-scale data center and mission‑critical projects, with transferable experience from infrastructure, EPC, industrial, advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, or other large capital project environments. This role is positioned between a narrow reporting‑focused cost engineer and a high‑level cost manager: the successful candidate must be able to do the detailed cost work, test assumptions, challenge contractor submissions, validate forecasts, and communicate cost exposure clearly to project teams, clients, and leadership.

The Senior Cost Engineer
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Cost Control Lead will be responsible for reviewing contractor pay applications, invoices, Schedule of Values, change orders, PCOs, cost forecasts, contingency, commitments, actuals, accruals, and project cost logs. This role requires strong cost controls, discipline, commercial awareness, construction cost judgment, and the ability to translate cost data into clear risk insights and recommendations.

• Review contractors' pay applications, invoices, cost submissions, and support documentation for accuracy, completeness, contract compliance, and cost reasonableness.
• Review Schedule of Values submissions and identify front‑loading, misalignment with scope, incomplete cost breakdowns, or payment risk exposure.
• Evaluate potential change orders, change orders, and contractor cost proposals for entitlement, pricing reasonableness, schedule impact, contract alignment, and supporting backup.
• Maintain accurate cost reports, change logs, trend logs, contingency logs, exposure registers, commitments, actuals, accruals, pending changes, and approved changes.
• Build, review, and validate Estimate at Completion forecasts, including forecast assumptions, remaining cost exposure, risk allowances, and contingency drawdown.
• Prepare and update cash flow forecasts and reconcile forecasted spending against actual costs, commitments, and project progress.
• Track budget movement, transfers, commitments, expenditures, accruals, approved changes, pending changes, allowances, contingency, and unresolved claims.
• Identify cost variances, forecast risks, commercial issues, change trends, and potential overrun exposure, then communicate the implications clearly to project teams and client stakeholders.
• Support monthly and periodic reporting by preparing clear cost narratives, risk summaries, forecast bridges, variance analysis, and executive‑level cost updates.
• Coordinate with project managers, construction managers, contractors, commercial teams, finance teams, schedulers, and client stakeholders to validate cost data and resolve discrepancies.
• Support closeout activities, including final pay applications, retention release, allowance reconciliation, open change resolution, claims tracking, and final cost reporting.
• Maintain complete, auditable cost records, backup documentation, logs, and reporting files in alignment with client standards, contract requirements, and project controls procedures.
• Support continuous improvement of cost control templates, dashboards, reporting routines, and cost management processes.
• Mentor junior cost controls or project controls personnel when required while remaining actively involved in the detailed cost work.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cost engineering
  , cost control
  , project controls
  , construction cost management
  , or related roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Engineering Management, or a…