Title:  Cost Engineer

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do.

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way. 

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

The Opportunity

North Western Program Alliance (NWPA) consists of five Alliance partners – John Holland, KBR, MTM, V/Line and the client (LXRP), working together as one team to achieve shared goals.

Since 2017, NWPA has had a proven track record with the successful delivery of eight level crossing removal projects (13 LX) and several premium stations, with two projects currently in delivery (4 LX) and three in development phase. 

We’re proud to make a real difference to the lives of people on our program of works and in the communities in which we operate. Our values are Care, Excellence, Creativity and Empowerment.  

We're currently seeking a Cost Engineer based in our Sunshine office. Your main duties will be to maintain and execute project control processes to ensure timely and accurate information, reporting, and analysis that support project delivery on time and on budget. This role focuses on maintaining existing cost control systems and procedures, with limited development activities, in accordance with John Holland policies across the full project lifecycle.

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintain and execute project controls functions, including daily docketing and daily cost reporting
• Support cost to date, forecast cost to complete, commitments, accruals and variance analysis reporting
• Ensure all project controls activities are undertaken in accordance with John Holland policies and procedures
• Maintain established project controls systems and processes, escalating issues and improvement opportunities to senior project controls or commercial staff.
• Collaborate closely with project delivery, commercial and finance teams to collect, verify, and analyse cost data
• Support preparation of monthly project reporting including cost performance, trends, and risks
• Conduct routine checks and reconciliations of docket and cost data to ensure completeness and accuracy
• Assist in maintaining digital daily costing systems (e.g., Synchro Perform), supporting users in correct application of digital dockets, site diaries, and progress capture
• Liaise with project stakeholders, including sub-contractors and workforce
• Provide clear, timely cost-related information to project teams to support decision-making and performance tracking
• Contribute to benchmarking, lessons learned and historical cost data collection to support future planning
• Identify and communicate emerging cost issues early and support development of corrective actions 

Position Requirements

• Tertiary qualification, preferably in one of the following disciplines - Engineering, Construction, Building, Project Management, Accounting, Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience
• 2-5 years of relevant experience in Construction, Engineering, Commercial Project / Cost Control and Earned Value analysis
• Multi-disciplined Commercial Project/Cost Control experience ideally for Major Projects
• Intermediate proficiency in relevant software packages such as Microsoft Suite (including Excel) and Project / Cost Control and Earned Value systems
• Experience with earned value concepts advantageous but not essential
• Exposure to digital daily costing tools (e.g., Synchro Perform, Virtual Super, Docketbook) desirable

What’s in it for you when you join John Holland?

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

We Offer

• Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.
• Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.
• Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you'll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
• Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
• Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.
• Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether its flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts, flexi-work, we're committed to helping our people work flexibly.