# Cost Engineer (Rail Project)

**Company**: AECOM
**Location**: Abu Dhabi, UAE
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are looking for a Cost Engineer to join a large-scale, multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure programme.

You will support the programme's cost management and financial control, making sure budgets, forecasts and changes are tracked accurately and reported clearly.

Key Responsibilities:

- Prepare, maintain and monitor project budgets, cost plans and cost breakdown structures

- Track actual and committed costs against budget and forecast, and analyse and explain variances

- Develop and update cost forecasts, including estimate-at-completion (EAC) and cash flow projections

- Assess the cost impact of change requests and variations, and support the change management process from submission to approval

- Maintain cost control systems, databases and financial records, and keep data accurate and auditable

- Produce periodic cost reports and dashboards for project and programme management

- Work with planning teams to align cost and schedule data, including earned value analysis where applicable

- Coordinate with commercial and delivery teams on cost-related matters, risks and opportunities

- Support audits, reviews and continuous improvement of cost control procedures

Essential Requirements:

- At least 5 years' experience in cost engineering, cost control or commercial support on design and/or construction projects

- Solid working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, cost reporting and change control processes

- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and advanced Excel proficiency

- Experience with cost management software (e.g. Primavera Unifier, EcoSys, Cleopatra or similar)

- Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to present cost data to non-specialist stakeholders

Desirable:

- Experience on projects of significant scale and complexity, ideally infrastructure or transport

- Rail project experience

- Middle East experience, particularly in the UAE

- Familiarity with earned value management (EVM) and with FIDIC or NEC contract forms

- Experience with reporting and visualisation tools such as Power BI

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience

- Membership of a professional body (e.g. AACE, RICS, ICE) is an advantage

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## Skills

### Required
- cost engineering
- cost control
- budgeting
- forecasting
- Excel
- Primavera Unifier
- EcoSys
- Cleopatra

### Nice to have
- earned value management
- FIDIC
- NEC
- Power BI
- rail project experience
- Middle East experience

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