Cost Engineer

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🕒 October 8

🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $85k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

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🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Guardian Industries - DeWitt

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Guardian Industries - DeWitt is a facility or operating unit of Guardian Industries listed among Koch companies. Guardian Industries is a global manufacturer best known for producing glass and building-related products and operates multiple manufacturing sites; the DeWitt location is presented in Koch’s careers/company listings as one of the Guardian Industries locations offering roles in manufacturing, engineering, operations and related functions. As part of Koch’s portfolio, the site is positioned within a large industrial/manufacturing network and supports production, operations and career opportunities tied to Guardian’s glass and building products businesses.

📋 Description

• Support capital projects across Georgia-Pacific’s North American facilities • Partner with project managers and project controls professionals to establish project cost structures, control budgets, and cost-control procedures • Maintain accurate project cost positions covering budgets, commitments, actuals, accruals, forecasts, changes, contingency, and management reserve • Coordinate monthly cost-cycle activities, including data validation, accrual development, contractor forecast reviews, period close, and reconciliation • Analyze cost performance, trends, risks, and variances; communicate forecast movement through reports and dashboards; and recommend actions • Integrate cost and schedule information to evaluate progress, earned value, cash flow, forecast phasing, milestone impacts, and delay or acceleration costs • Monitor commitments, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and payment status; identify gaps, duplicate exposure, uncommitted scope, and commercial risk • Collaborate with scheduling, estimating, risk, and change-management professionals to evaluate cost impacts and translate risks and opportunities into exposure, contingency scenarios, and forecast ranges • Maintain timely, accurate, and auditable cost information with internal partners, contractors, and vendors • Transform and integrate data from multiple systems into reliable, analysis-ready datasets and provide recurring or ad hoc insights • Coach project team members and external partners on cost-control expectations, coding discipline, forecast ownership, and timely supporting-data submission • Deliver timely, accurate, and traceable monthly cost reporting; identify cost pressure and cash-flow impacts early; align financial and schedule records; and provide concise leadership reporting

🎯 Requirements

• Two or more years of experience in project controls, cost engineering, or a related project-cost role supporting construction, capital, or other complex projects • Hands-on experience with budgeting, commitments, actual costs, accruals, cost forecasting, variance analysis, and change control across multiple work packages or commercial commitments • Experience using Excel and a project controls, enterprise resource planning, or financial system to reconcile and analyze large cost datasets • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret complex data and develop practical conclusions • Experience communicating complex cost information clearly to project teams and business leaders through reports, dashboards, or presentations • Ability to collaborate across project disciplines and appropriately challenge unsupported cost, forecast, or progress information • Willing and able to travel up to 25% (project dependent) • Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, construction management, building science, business, finance, accounting, or a related field (preferred) • Five or more years of experience in project controls or cost engineering (preferred) • Experience supporting large or complex capital projects for an owner organization or in an engineering, procurement, and construction environment, particularly within a manufacturing or industrial operation (preferred) • Experience with EcoSys or a comparable Enterprise Project Performance (EPP) system and visualization tools such as Qlik or Power BI (preferred) • Working knowledge of earned value management, cost and schedule integration, and cash-flow forecasting (preferred) • Relevant certification or active progress toward certification, such as AACE CCP, CEP, or EVP; PMI-SP; PMP; or a comparable project controls credential (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form • Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Flexible spending and health savings accounts • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) insurance • Disability insurance • Retirement plan • Paid vacation/time off • Educational assistance • May include infertility assistance • May include paid parental leave • May include adoption assistance • Remote work arrangement

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