I’m currently a Lead Cost Engineer with 21years experience based mainly in Project Controls department. I have worked under Lead Cost Engineer, Cost Controller and QS job title. I served as a cost adviser in Petrochemical, Power and Energy, Mining, and Infrastructure projects. I’m more comfortable in all trades (Mechanical, Piping, Civil and Structural, Road Construction, Instrumentation and Electrical). I have experienced projects in Eskom-Kusile PowerStation, Astron Energy in Cape town, and Sasol Group technology and Engen Refinery. My ideal responsibility is to estimate and manage project budget by monitoring the status of expenditures against commitment, commitment against budget and to provides alignment with the planning department and manage changes against cost baseline and forecast cost flow during the remainder of the project life cycle. Key benefit of my role is to provides the visibility of variances and recognition of those variances from cost baseline. I supported the project from all stages of the project, from development, basic engineering, detail engineering, procurement, execution, commissioning, and closeout. I worked with the suppliers and trace manufacturing progress from the placement of order, procurement, fabrication, and delivery to site. I also worked with subcontractors tracing their actual scope progress on site and assessing their claims plus approving their payment. I experienced projects under Fidic and NEC contract and precisely lumpsum and reimbursable. My contractual understanding helps me trace, manage and record all changes throughout the project's life cycle with diligence. I’m well-grounded with a grip of the project workflow from initiation to closeout. I’m aware of the interface and procedures between departments from estimate, funding, commercial, project management, and engineering. My quantity surveying background and experience are instrumental for good analytical and assessment skills, I’m able to do estimation from drawing, doing take offs, creating bill of quantity, comparing prices and I can produce all class of estimate. I have strong experience in tenders' adjudications and tender evaluations. I responded to many tender proposals with quote/estimate. I worked on Proman, SAP, Oracle, GBS financial systems and Ecosys reporting system. I develop the project cost reports in line with the company standard templates and procedures which I present to Management monthly meetings for review. I also specialized in reporting budget performance, gross margin performances, key project performance indicators (CPI, SPI and WPI). I interact with other disciplines such as Commercial, Cost Estimating, Planning, Engineering, Construction, Financial, Business analyst and Project Management to enable to meet daily deliverables. I am also capable of working within set timelines to be able meet reporting deadlines.