Central Cost Manager
Duration:
12 month contract
Location:
Boden, Sweden
Rotation:
Monday – Friday 40 hours per week
Position Overview
This position offers the opportunity to play a pivotal role in driving the integrity, consistency, and insightfulness of cost performance across one of Europe’s most ambitious industrial projects. As part of the Central Project Controls Function, the position governs cost control frameworks, supports delivery teams, and ensures the accuracy of cost data used for strategic decision-making. The focus is on standards-setting, oversight, and cross-functional collaboration to enable effective project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Develop, maintain, and govern cost control standards, tools, templates, and procedures.
Provide independent oversight of cost performance, identifying variances, trends, and risks across delivery areas.
Maintain a reliable single source of cost data throughout the project lifecycle.
Coordinate and govern the integrated change control process for cost aspects, ensuring thorough cross-functional impact assessments.
Support Area Cost Leads with consistent methodologies and reporting standards across the programme.
Deliver training and guidance to cost control staff.
Produce consolidated cost dashboards and insights for leadership and project improvement units.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives in cost management systems and processes.
Deploy cost resources to delivery areas when additional support is required.
Manage the end-to-end change control process, including framework, standards, workflows, and templates.
Ensure all changes are robustly assessed for impacts on cost, schedule, risk, and interfaces.
Support area teams to effectively embed change control practices.
Qualifications & Experience
Approximately 15 years of experience in cost control for large-scale industrial or infrastructure projects, preferably under EPCM contracts.
Strong understanding of cost management frameworks such as AACE and PMI standards.
Proven expertise working across cross-functional interfaces including engineering, procurement, construction, quality, and planning.
High proficiency with cost control tools and reporting systems, including Earned Value Management (EVM), forecasting, and KPIs.
Demonstrated ability to lead in complex, dynamic environments with multiple stakeholders.
Key Competencies
Exceptional communication and influencing skills with the ability to support executive-level decision-making.
Proactive, solution-oriented, with a strong sense of structure, integrity, and accountability.
Track record of driving continuous improvement in cost management practices.
Ability to deliver under tight deadlines and adapting to shifting project priorities.
About the Company
Founded in 2020, this company was created with the purpose to decarbonize hard-to-abate industry. Construction of the first project—an integrated plant producing green hydrogen, green iron, and green steel—is well underway in Boden, Sweden. Using green hydrogen and renewable electricity, the company is slashing emissions and starting a clean industrial revolution. Green steel is just the beginning. With a diverse and rapidly growing team across sites and offices in Boden and Stockholm, the company is targeting close to 1500 employees by the end of 2025 and focuses on delivering green impact for people, customers, investors, society, and the planet.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure, and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled. If you would like to be considered for this role and would like further details, please apply now!