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Project Controls Cost Analyst II

HNTB
Charlotte, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 3/27/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/26/2026
**What We're Looking For** At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. This opportunity involves managing several cost functions to provide our clients with accurate project budget information, cashflow forecasts and contingency positions at a project level. These efforts include preparing and maintaining client budgets, reviewing invoices, recording project costs, and monitoring cost history and trends to develop estimated costs at completion. You’ll identify and track potential cost overruns as well as investigate anomalies in actual expenditures against project budgets. **What You’ll Do:** Reviews, analyzes, and processes invoices and payment applications. Operates budget/cost system, including documenting and tracking changes to budget, commitments, and expenditures. May manage budget/cost function for a small project or portion of a project under general supervision. Supports change order process, including recording estimate-at-completion (EAC) impacts of potential or requested change orders. Tracks project EAC by recording all potential changes to cost accounts, including change orders, trends, and deviations. Generates standard and ad hoc reports including budget reports, forecast-at-completion estimates, and other reports under guidance Establishes and / or tracks contingency allocation. Forecasts costs and records updated forecasts as provided by project team. Supports Senior Cost Analyst in performing cost risk assessments. Performs other duties as assigned. **What You’ll Need:** Associate's degree in Construction Management or Accounting and 3 years relevant experience, or In lieu of education, 5 years of relevant experience **What We Prefer:** AACE Certified Cost Technician (CCT) or equivalent Experience working as a client's PM/CM agent (e.g., providing program management/construction management services), or as part of a design-build contractor Project Controls experience in each phase of the project lifecycle (e.g., predesign, design, procurement, construction, and post-construction phases) Experience in developing project controls deliverables for transportation projects/programs (aviation, transit, highway/bridges) is preferred. **Additional Information** Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. \#JS . Locations: Charlotte, NC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:_ _HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees._ **Job Type:** Regular **Full/Part Time:** Full time **Job Category:** Project Controls Group **ReqID:** R-29658

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