PRINCIPAL LEAD ESTIMATOR & COST CONTROLS SME

Oracle•Port Washington, WI

5d•$126,200 - $264,100•Hybrid

About The Position

Serve as the senior cost estimating, commercial analysis, and project controls subject matter expert for assigned projects, programs, and strategic initiatives. Support investment decisions, budget development, cost governance, forecasting, and execution visibility across the delivery portfolio. Translate project scope, design maturity, market conditions, contractor pricing, and field execution realities into accurate cost models, estimates, forecasts, risk assessments, and executive decision support. Act as Oracle's internal cost authority and owner representative for estimating, cost management, commercial validation, and third-party Quantity Surveying (QS) governance.

Requirements

Senior-level cost estimating, cost controls, commercial analysis, project controls, or capital project delivery experience.
Expertise in conceptual, budgetary, detailed, parametric, and quantity-based estimating methods.
Strong understanding of multi-discipline construction scopes, contractor pricing, productivity assumptions, quantities, and field execution realities.
Experience with cost forecasting, budget management, cost variance analysis, change order evaluation, contingency planning, and cost risk management.
Ability to perform bid leveling, proposal validation, scope reconciliation, should-cost modeling, benchmark development, and commercial challenge.
Demonstrated ability to manage third-party QS firms, cost consultants, or external estimating partners.
Strong executive reporting, dashboarding, cost governance, documentation, and data-driven decision support skills.
Ability to partner with project teams, procurement, construction, contractors, estimators, commercial stakeholders, and executive leadership.
Strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, consultant oversight, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

Develop and validate conceptual, budgetary, and detailed estimates across electrical, low voltage, mechanical, civil, structural, architectural, controls, security, network, and site infrastructure scopes.
Build and maintain cost models, parametric estimating tools, quantity-based estimates, labor productivity models, benchmarks, and should-cost analyses.
Lead cost forecasting, trend analysis, variance analysis, escalation analysis, contingency analysis, and cost risk identification.
Perform bid leveling, proposal normalization, commercial evaluations, contractor pricing reviews, vendor pricing validation, and scope gap analysis.
Prepare Basis of Estimate packages, executive cost reporting, cost dashboards, estimate governance standards, and portfolio cost intelligence reports.
Support change order evaluations, cost negotiation, cost-related decision support, project controls integration, and cost/schedule analytics.
Provide portfolio cost visibility by connecting estimating, forecasting, commercial risk, project controls, and field execution data.
Standardize estimating methodologies, cost reporting practices, and cost management procedures across assigned projects and programs.
Manage external QS partners and cost consultants as integrated extensions of the delivery organization.
Define QS scopes of work, service standards, reporting requirements, performance metrics, and accountability measures.
Review, challenge, validate, and accept QS estimates, forecasts, cost reports, methodologies, assumptions, and recommendations.
Coordinate multiple QS firms across projects and regions while improving quality, responsiveness, accuracy, and consistency.
Integrate QS outputs into portfolio reporting, executive decision-making, cost governance, and continuous improvement efforts.