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.