Cost Engineer

3 weeks ago


Reston, Virginia, United States CM Solutions Full time

We are seeking a highly skilled Cost Engineer to support Utility customers throughout Southern California. These Utility providers will be both Natural Gas and Electrical Transmission providers.

This is a hybrid position with a request for 2-3x a week in the office, so you must be living in the LA area. This is NOT REMOTE.

Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion dollar Capital Improvement Programs.
  • Review and analyze sub-contractor invoices. Prepare job costing reports to allocate these expenditures against the appropriate WBS numbers. Ensure that both commitments and expenditures follow the same allocation methodology.
  • Perform cost-to-complete analysis for all cost elements within a project taking into consideration staffing plans, contract commitments, and expenditures to date, change orders and trends.
  • Attend project meetings to provide Project Management with current financial information and trend log regarding potential impacts to project budget or forecast.
  • Provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required. Develop creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
  • Review task orders for contractors and sub-consultants to ensure necessary budget and/or contract capacity exists.
  • Analyze bid award values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
  • Analyze change order values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
  • Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers

Requirements:

  • 5+ yrs field cost engineering experience with minimum 3 yrs in direct support of an active construction projects.
  • Demonstrated experience managing and reporting the cost components of large-scale, complex projects; including developing and managing a progress reporting methodology for a complicated design effort.
  • The candidates should be familiar with the full life cycle of Cost Engineering/Forecasting
  • Experience with Design-Build and Construction Management at Risk delivery methods is desirable.
  • Has experience in forensic claims work on major construction project.
  • Demonstrated ability to understand technical and complicated construction program and the ability to communicate progress to both technical- and management-level personnel.
  • Ability to work with others, a self-starter with results-driven focus.
  • Flexible to a potentially varying shift time or overtime schedule.

Hardware/Software Knowledge:

  • Thorough familiarity with MS office suite software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, (proficient in Excel)
  • Familiarity with Primavera, (P6)

Education:

Graduation from a recognized college or university with a Bachelor's degree.

NO PER DIEM. These are W2, long-term jobs with full benefits. NO relocation packages.


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