Principal Specialist, Cost Control

**Title**:
Principal Specialist, Cost Control

**Belong, Connect, Grow, with KBR**

**Program Summary**

**KBR Government Solutions** delivers full life cycle professional and technical solutions that improve operational readiness and drive innovation. Our solutions help ensure mission success on land, air, sea, space and cyberspace for the Department of Defense, intelligence community, NASA and other federal agencies. KBR’s areas of expertise include engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity.

Our people make the world a more productive, efficient and fascinating place. And that is only the beginning.

**Job Summary**

This position, reporting to the Cost Manager within the Program Planning and Control team, is pivotal for forecasting, controlling, and reporting project costs. The role requires an undergraduate degree and over 14 years of experience. The individual will develop project variances, analyze expenditures, and provide completion reports. They will review project costs by category, forecast future costs considering various factors, and manage the performance of multiple disciplines within the project controls function. This role involves leading managers or professional staff, contributing to project controls strategy, and potentially overseeing global processes in estimating, project risk control, cost control, and scheduling.

**Roles and Responsibilities**
- Ensure timely and accurate submission of required deliverables, both internally to KBR and externally to the client.
- Review project finances, including tracking project funding levels versus recognized revenue.
- Provide input to management on financial forecasting, project-level cost reporting and forecasting, and labor and non-labor utilization and trends.
- Develop and provide project variances, trending, and analysis of expenditures, and completion reports.
- Review project costs incurred by category and calculate future costs based on labor productivity, material price increases, subcontract, wage rates, and risk analysis.
- Manage the delivery of functional objectives by providing leadership and direction to managers or professional staff.
- Participate in the development of project controls strategy and may be responsible for global processes and procedures in estimating, project risk control, cost control, and scheduling.

**Basic Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or a related business discipline, or 14+ years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
- Experience with Cost Point, Cognos, OnBase, Deltek, and WorkDay or similar softwares and platforms.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Prior experience working on the LOGCAP Program.

**KBR Benefits**

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

**Inclusion and Diversity at KBR**

At KBR, we are passionate about our people, sustainability, and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a more inclusive and diverse company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment of real collaboration across cultures and locations. Our individual differences and perspectives bring enhanced value to our teams and help us develop solutions for the most challenging problems. We understand that by embracing those differences and working together, we are more innovative, more resilient.