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

About this role

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. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:

Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.

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. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:

Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.

If you are interested in a long and rewarding career working with high-profile clients on some of the most challenging projects in the world, then Decima is where you belong. At Decima, you will be able to explore incredible growth and professional development opportunities.

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 intentionally 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/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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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…