Owners Cost Engineer
CR/080177
Posted: 10/12/2025
- Competitive
- Azerbaijan, Baku
- Contract
POSITION TITLE: Owners Cost Engineer
This role will be responsible for cost engineering support for all owners cost (People, internal costs and minor 3rd party), focusing on maintaining the procedures and deliverables associated with cost control and interface activities across projects. This position will be part of the team ensuring the centralisation, standardisation and digitisation of cost engineering for owners costs.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
LINE MANAGER TITLE: Owners Cost Squad Lead
ESSENTIAL EDUCATION
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
This role will be responsible for cost engineering support for all owners cost (People, internal costs and minor 3rd party), focusing on maintaining the procedures and deliverables associated with cost control and interface activities across projects. This position will be part of the team ensuring the centralisation, standardisation and digitisation of cost engineering for owners costs.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Cost engineering support to operating bases covering owners costs.
- Final cost forecast and value of work done submissions for owners costs
- Supports the development of standard procedures and templates to simplify, standardise, centralise and digitise owners cost engineering
- Work closely with stakeholders within operating bases to understand risks and opportunities around various aspects of owners costs
- Work closely with project controls team who performance managing project headcount to support an accurate cost forecast.
- Support the development of artificial intelligence cost forecasting
- Understand the time-writing process as an input to cost conversion and cost control
- Analyse project WBS data to understand variances from plan and impact of actual performance on total installed costs.
- Provide cost input to the Headcount Change Notification form; incorporate output into cost reports
- Work in SAP and cost related business tools
- Support the AGT project teams and provide input to key business processes such as AWP&B, MCE, QPF etc.
- Ensure correct coding of all requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, estimates, and develop and maintain all required cost logs and registers.
- Reconcile costs between SAP and BP Cost Management System.
LINE MANAGER TITLE: Owners Cost Squad Lead
ESSENTIAL EDUCATION
- Degree educated preferably in an engineering, construction, or business related discipline
- Experience working as cost engineer within large organisation or project
- Previous knowledge of owners cost forecasting within bp
- Ability to organize and prioritize work and meet deadlines.
- Ability to recognize and solve problems.
- Mindset supporting cost engineering transition towards digitisation
- Analytical ability combined with good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent skill using Microsoft suite of tools
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Hidayat Rahimov
Project Controls Manager
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