Senior Cost Controls Specialist
The Senior Cost Controls Specialist is responsible for improving costing disciplines and solving complex cost management problems. They act as a technical resource for less experienced colleagues and impact various operational and project activities.
- On-site
- Squamish, BC
- Posted Jun 29, 2026
- 1 position
Job summary
Job Overview: The Senior Cost Controls Specialist uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the costing discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the cost discipline. The Senior Cost Controls Specialist solves complex problems and uses their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Cost Controls Specialist impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities. Salary Range: $142,856 - $180,599. The range provided is for contracted hours only. In addition, McDermott offers a competitive total rewards package, including project up-lift and bonuses. Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably. For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.
What you’ll do
The Senior Cost Controls Specialist is responsible for improving costing disciplines and solving complex cost management problems. They act as a technical resource for less experienced colleagues and impact various operational and project activities.
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or Construction Management, or 7-10 years of relevant experience. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in MS Office and have a strong understanding of the relationship between project scope, schedule, and cost.
Benefits
• Project Up-lift • Bonuses • Total Rewards Package
Other relevant skills
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- Cost Management
- Progress Management
- Problem Solving
- Coordination Skills
- Project Scope Analysis
- Scheduling
- Multifunctional Teamwork
- Estimating
- Accounting Interfaces
- MS Office
- JD Edwards
Job areas
- Finance & Accounting
- Engineering
- Energy
- Construction
- Management & Leadership
Additional details
- Minimum education
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum experience
- 5+ years
- Posting language
- English
- Working hours
- 40 hours per week
