Own the cost management strategy across one or more gigascale projects/programs from early design through closeout.

Build cost governance: WBS/CBS structures, cost codes, control accounts, reporting cadence, and executive dashboards.

Establish standards for estimating, forecasting, contingency management, and cost risk practices across the program.

Provide clear cost narratives to leadership: variances, drivers, corrective actions, and forward-looking risk.

Lead concept-to-definitive estimating aligned to design maturity (e.g., ROM, schematic, DD, CD).

Develop and maintain the overall project budget, cash flow, and long-range forecast; reconcile to funding and finance requirements.

Benchmark costs using historical data, market intelligence, and parametric models; validate unit rates and productivity assumptions.

Drive monthly cost report cycles with disciplined cost-to-complete and earned-value-informed forecasting where applicable.

Implement a robust change control process to manage scope, schedule, and cost impacts with strong documentation.

Evaluate change orders and claims: pricing, entitlement, schedule linkage, and negotiation support.