Low Voltage Cost Lead

This is a remote position. Location Remote with 25% Travel Salary Range $110,000 to $140,000 Overview Stelic is seeking a Low Voltage Cost Lead to support a large data center project. This role owns day-to-day cost management for the low voltage scope, including baseline development, commitments tracking, forecasting, change and trend control, procurement cost support, contingency management, and executive reporting. You will help ensure that low voltage cost performance is accurate, current, and aligned with scope, schedule, procurement, and installation progress.  This is a remote-first position, with the potential of travel up to one week per month. Key Responsibilities • Develop, maintain, and manage the low voltage cost baseline aligned with contract scope, WBS, and procurement strategy. • Establish and maintain a clear cost breakdown structure for the low voltage scope with traceability to budget line items and measurable deliverables. • Own the low voltage commitments register, including subcontracts, purchase orders, vendor agreements, pending changes, and remaining exposure. • Track and reconcile actuals, invoices, accruals, and cost transfers with finance and accounts payable to ensure clean coding and accurate attribution. • Produce weekly and monthly low voltage forecasts, including ETC and EAC by major work package, with clear explanations of cost movement and forecast changes. • Identify and quantify forecast impacts driven by labor productivity, material pricing, schedule shifts, rework, late design changes, and other commercial drivers. • Own the low voltage change log and trend log, including initiation, tracking, aging, pricing support, and disposition. • Coordinate with project management, engineering, field leadership, procurement, and subcontractors to ensure scope changes are identified early and priced consistently. • Track contingency usage and maintain clear linkage between contingency drawdown and approved changes. • Support bid leveling, commercial evaluations, and detailed review of vendor and subcontractor pricing, allowances, exclusions, alternates, and escalation assumptions. • Track buyout status and identify procurement-driven cost risks, including lead times, substitutions, expediting, and cancellations. • Establish and support progress measurement rules for low voltage work, including installed quantities, milestones, and percent complete, and align progress status with cost burn and forecast assumptions. • Support earned value and installed productivity reporting when required by the project. • Prepare standardized cost reporting packages with budget, commitments, actuals, forecast, variances, top risks, opportunities, contingency status, and recommended actions. • Support leadership meetings and executive readouts with concise summaries, clear decisions, and actionable cost insight. • Drive closeout cost readiness, including final invoices, reconciliation, credits, release tracking, final account documentation, and complete cost record handoff. Requirements Requirements • 5+ years of experience in cost controls, project controls, or construction cost management on large capital projects. • Strong background in low voltage systems, electrical construction, mission critical facilities, or data center projects. • Strong experience with cost forecasting, ETC/EAC development, commitments tracking, accruals, change management, and contingency control. • Experience reviewing subcontractor and vendor pricing, buyout status, commercial assumptions, and procurement-related cost risk. • Ability to reconcile cost data across project teams, procurement, finance, and field operations with a high level of accuracy and consistency. • Strong understanding of progress measurement, cost loading principles, and earned value support in construction environments. • Advanced Excel and strong overall reporting skills; experience with project controls, ERP, cost management, or financial reporting systems preferred. • Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex cost issues for project teams and executive leadership. • Bachelor’s degree in construction, engineering, finance, or related field preferred. Benefits • Competitive salary. • Health, dental, and vision coverage. • 401(k) program. • PTO and paid holidays. • Professional development support. Work Environment • Full-time support for a large data center project • Primarily remote role with periodic site visits and in-person support as required by project needs • High collaboration with project management, field leadership, procurement, finance, engineering, and trade partners • Requires regular participation in cost reviews, forecast meetings, change reviews, and cross-functional coordination sessions Equal Opportunity Stelic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Stelic complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. ADA Accommodation Stelic is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. At Will Employment Employment at Stelic is at will. Nothing in this job description creates a contract or guarantees employment for a specific duration.