Change Management / Trend Engineer
About The Position
The Change Management / Trend Engineer proactively identifies, evaluates, tracks and manages changes and emerging cost and schedule trends on a data center construction program before they become major financial or schedule exposures. The work takes place in a fast-paced construction environment with rapidly evolving designs, changing scopes, multiple contractors, aggressive schedules and significant capital commitments. The role brings structure and discipline to change management without slowing construction execution and provides project leadership with early visibility of exposure so decisions can be made quickly. The role manages the change lifecycle from trend notification and evaluation through approval, change order execution, and incorporation into budgets and forecasts. It maintains change and trend registers; evaluates financial and schedule impacts; reviews contractor requests and supporting documentation; and coordinates with project controls, commercial, construction and technical stakeholders. The position provides preliminary assessments as information develops and challenges unsupported requests while working to resolve changes productively. The role does not assume contractual approval authority.
Requirements
- Strong change management, trend management, cost engineering or project controls background on large-scale construction, power generation, data center, industrial, infrastructure or EPC projects.
- Proven experience identifying and tracking cost and schedule trends.
- Strong understanding of the change management lifecycle and of scope, baseline and budget management.
- Experience evaluating cost impacts and contractor change orders.
- Good understanding of EPC and construction contracts, including change provisions, notice requirements, entitlement principles and approval authorities.
- Strong Excel and data management skills.
- Analytical and commercially aware.
- Adaptable when designs and priorities change and information is incomplete.
- Collaborative with Construction, Engineering, Contracts, Procurement, Cost Engineering, Scheduling, Estimating and contractors.
- Proactive, energetic and detail-oriented, with hands-on ownership.
- Able to challenge unsupported requests while maintaining productive working relationships.
Nice To Haves
- Omega 365 experience with change management, cost control, commitments and reporting modules.
- Working knowledge of Primavera P6.
- Data center construction experience.
Responsibilities
- Identify and track emerging cost and schedule trends arising from design development, scope changes, field conditions, contractor claims, procurement changes and productivity issues.
- Manage the full change lifecycle, including trend notification, evaluation, approval, change order execution and incorporation into budgets and forecasts.
- Establish and maintain change and trend registers containing scope descriptions, cost estimates, schedule impacts, status, ownership, approval requirements and supporting documentation.
- Evaluate the financial impact of changes by reviewing contractor estimates, validating quantities and rates, identifying cost exposure, and coordinating with Cost Engineering and Estimating.
- Work with Scheduling and Construction to assess schedule impacts, including critical path exposure, delay, acceleration and sequencing changes.
- Assess proposed changes against scope definitions, approved budgets and contract baselines to distinguish legitimate scope changes from design evolution and contractor obligations.
- Review contractor change requests, validate supporting documentation, identify duplicate or unsupported costs, and coordinate commercial and technical evaluations.
- Coordinate with Cost Engineering so approved changes, pending changes and potential trends are reflected in forecasts and EAC with clear exposure visibility and no double counting.
- Work with Contracts and Commercial teams on change provisions, notice requirements and entitlement, without assuming contractual approval authority.
- Provide early visibility of exposure to project leadership, making preliminary assessments and refining them as information develops.
- Challenge unsupported requests and follow up with stakeholders to drive changes to resolution.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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