Cost Engineer

Overview

Cost engineer for large construction projects in Southern California, hybrid office role.

Key Responsibilities

• reporting tools
• cost analysis
• change orders
• job costing
• budget monitoring
• financial updates

Tasks

-Provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required. Develop creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments. -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. -Analyze change order values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion. -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. -Review and analyze sub-contractor invoices. Prepares job costing reports to allocate these expenditures against the appropriate WBS numbers. Ensure that both commitments and expenditures follow the same allocation methodology. -Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers -Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion dollar Capital Improvement Programs. -Attend project meetings to provide Project Management with current financial information and trend log regarding potential impacts to project budget or forecast.

Requirements

• excel
• primavera
• cost engineering
• 5+ yrs
• design-build
• bachelor's

What You Bring

Graduation from a recognized college or university with a Bachelor’s degree. -Ability to work with others, a self-starter with results-driven focus. -The candidates should be familiar with the full life cycle of Cost Engineering/Forecasting -5+ yrs field cost engineering experience with minimum 3 yrs in direct support of an active construction projects. -Has experience in forensic claims work on major construction project. -Thorough familiarity with MS office suite software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, (proficient in Excel) -Familiarity with Primavera, (P6) -Experience with Design-Build and Construction Management at Risk delivery methods is desirable. -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. -Flexible to a potentially varying shift time or overtime schedule. -Demonstrated ability to understand technical and complicated construction program and the ability to communicate progress to both technical- and management-level personnel.

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Benefits

NO PER DIEM. These are W2, long-term jobs with full benefits. NO relocation packages. These jobs will hybrid positions with the request for 2-3x a week in the office, so you must be living in the LA area. This is NOT REMOTE.

About Cm Solutions

-From early engagements, they grew into a trusted partner delivering CPM scheduling, cost forecasting, and claims analysis. -Acting on behalf of owners or general contractors, the firm supports sectors like energy, transportation, water and wastewater, and facilities construction. -They supplement clients’ teams through staff augmentation, embedding onsite experts to guide scheduling, estimating, and risk mitigation. -Their approach blends forensic analysis with predictive cost modeling, setting them apart in managing construction claims.

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