Change Management/Trend Engineer

Job Title: Change Management/Trend Engineer
Location: The Woodlands, TX

Overview
The Change Management / Trend Engineer proactively identifies, evaluates, tracks, and manages changes and emerging cost and schedule trends across large-scale construction programs before they become significant financial or schedule exposures.

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: trend notification, evaluation, approval, change order execution, and incorporation into budgets and forecasts.
• Establish and maintain change and trend registers, including scope descriptions, cost estimates, schedule impacts, status, ownership, approval requirements, and supporting documentation.
• Evaluate the financial impact of changes: review contractor estimates, validate quantities and rates, identify cost exposure, and coordinate 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; make preliminary assessments and refine them as information develops.
• Challenge unsupported requests and follow up with stakeholders to drive changes to resolution.

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.

System One, and its subsidiaries including Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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