Project Controls Supervisor; Cost

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The Project Controls Supervisor (Cost)leads the cost-control function across capital projects, non-routine maintenance, and turnaround work. The role provides oversight for budgeting, forecasting, commitments, change control, accruals, financial reporting, and closeout, and establishes consistent cost-control practices across all three portfolios.

This role develops the cost team and provides independent assurance that cost information is accurate, current, and aligned with scope, schedule, contracting strategy, execution plans, and approved funding. The supervisor partners with Project Managers, Maintenance and Turnaround leaders, Planning, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, contractors, and budget holders to identify cost risks early, strengthen governance, and support timely business decisions.

• Lead, coach, and develop Cost Engineers, Cost Analysts, and Cost Administrators; set priorities, clarify decision rights, and hold the team accountable for accurate and timely deliverables.
• Allocate capital, non-routine maintenance, and turnaround assignments based on complexity, risk, execution timing, and business priorities; provide coverage during vacancies and peak workload periods.
• Establish performance expectations, provide regular feedback, support development plans, and build succession and cross-training capability.
• Build team competencies and training plans to strengthen cost-control capability and elevate the cost team into effective business partners, particularly as the team continues to adapt through organizational changes.

• Own the site cost-control framework across capital projects, non-routine maintenance, and turnarounds, including budgets, commitments, actual costs, Value of Work Done (VOWD), cash-flow phasing, accruals, Forecast Final Cost (FFC), and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Review and approve project, maintenance, and turnaround forecasts and cost reports, challenging assumptions, schedule alignment, progress measurement, productivity, risks, and opportunities.
• Ensure forecasts are supported by current scope, schedules, work orders, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and execution plans.
• Provide focused oversight for major, complex, high-risk, or troubled work and recommend corrective actions to operational, project, turnaround, and finance leadership.
• Lead applicable monthly, quarterly, semiannual, annual planning, budget rollover, forecast reset, event forecasting, and year-end close activities across the supported portfolios.

• Lead the cost component of change management for capital, non-routine maintenance, and turnaround work, ensuring approved and pending changes, trends, risks, threats, and opportunities are documented, governed, and reflected in forecasts.
• Ensure consistent use of approved WBS and work-order structures, cost coding, project-control systems, and required logs and registers.
• Provide assurance over purchase orders, contracts, invoices, estimates, and accruals
• Maintain audit-ready cost records and support internal controls and contractor or vendor audits.
• Partner with Finance to build, strengthen, and sustain financial controls relevant to projects and fixed assets, including timely capitalization, closeout, cost recovery, oversight of funding request updates, correct categorization of CAPEX versus REVEX, and compliance requirements.
• Escalate material cost, control, data-quality, or compliance concerns with clear…