Position Overview:

This position is designated as part time remote and can be worked from various locations. 

The Senior Cost Engineer, Engineering Services will perform cost estimating, analysis, control and reporting activities including:

Budget and forecast development, maintenance, monitoring, impact identification, and recovery planning.

Cost control, analysis and financial reporting including cost performance metrics.

Support studies, change control, forecasts and problem-solving exercises as required.

Progress reporting and analysis.

Responsibilities:

Prepares and presents financial reporting information to management.

Provides comments and recommendations for cost engineering requirements relative to staffing and project control.

Prepares detailed staffing plans for engineering services activities.

Reviews proposal provisions related to cost engineering and material control and develops supporting data for contract negotiations. Participates in establishing pricing structures to be applied to quantities for estimates.

Obtains vendor information to update the cost data file.

Applies material unit rates to quantities. Maintains cost data files.

Interfaces with designated management and client counterparts for specific cost presentations.

Participates in developing and presenting training classes on designated subjects and on-the-job training for specific processes and practices.

Prepares timely cost estimates. Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data.

Reviews project work activities to ensure support of project milestones. Coordinates and establishes scoping requirements for the overall cost estimate by discipline or other specialties, and coordinates the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.

Coordinates pricing structure or criteria to be used by each discipline or specialty to meet the objectives of the cost estimate.

Establishes format and content of summaries and reconciliations, including segregation of cost according to level of confidence and identification of areas of risk. 

Participates in discussions with vendors.

Plans, organizes and supervises project cost budgets.

Reviews and critiques design and specifications for cost-effectiveness and suggests alternatives when appropriate.

Prepares cost trend estimates in support of project cost trend programs.

Performs cost recording, monitoring, and reporting practices for compliance with applicable standards accuracy and consistency.

Investigates requirements for cost control data for a specific discipline or other specialty applications.

Identifies needs for cost analysis support for the project and recommends development or modification of cost engineering data standards. Performs cost analysis activities within the project.

Coordinates information input into specific studies. Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification.

Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion.

Develops unit job hour and pricing data for a specific discipline or other specialty, including estimating parameters, factors indices, productivity and craft distribution reference data, etc., based on analysis of Bechtel and industry experience.

Performs data analysis, identifies problems, and makes recommendations.

Creates and implements measurement systems for given processes, analyzes performance metric results, and identifies improvements.

Basic Qualifications:

Level 1: Must possess at least a bachelors’ (BS/BA) degree from an accredited university and six (6) or more years of relevant professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, high school diploma or equivalent and twelve (12) or more years of directly relevant professional experience.

Level 2: Must possess at least a bachelors’ (BS/BA) degree from an accredited university and nine (9) or more years of relevant professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, high school diploma or equivalent and fifteen (15) or more years of directly relevant professional experience.

Possess the legal right to work and remain in the United States without sponsorship.

Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check including verification of employment, education and travel.

Minimum Qualifications:

Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing cost engineering functions, including cost estimating, cost control, financial reporting systems, and cost analysis.

Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present cost engineering and cost estimating products. This includes preparation of financial reporting products independently with minimal supervision using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical cost engineering skills and engineering design and construction practices.

Advanced proficiency in using software applications such as Excel, Access, Word and PowerPoint.

Skilled in oral and written communication.

Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.

Demonstrated ability to work with people of varied backgrounds and objectives.

Preferred Qualifications:

Proficiency with Cobra cost processor application

Prior government certified EVMS cost engineering experience.