Construction Cost Analyst

About the role

As a Cost Analyst (Construction Consultancy) at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset, and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us.

Responsibilities

• Translate detailed technical data into impactful information for partners and clients
• Create, maintain, and present compelling reports
• Review data quality across the schedule each week, including cost and cash flow data related to the client's construction program
• Create analytic tools to support our client business support
• Effectively consolidate data into reports to reflect a clear picture of project status and forecast
• Review existing data management processes to identify areas for improvement and participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives
• Provide data validation support to the client's internal programmers and act as point of contact for automation and dashboard development initiatives
• Use Data Visualization software to report on program deliverables
• Contribute to account strategic initiatives including process reviews, value stream mapping, trend analysis, and visualization support (presentations and Tableau)
• Generate monthly construction program reports, including data consolidation and analysis, trend reporting, and automation initiatives
• Partner with site teams to complete root-cause analysis of variances and trends across the client's global program

Requirements

• Understanding of construction project lifecycles; experience working with project controls teams or cost consultants is an advantage
• Ability to translate construction-related raw data (cost, schedule, procurement, risk) into clear dashboards and insights
• Experience building Power BI dashboards specifically for operational or project-based reporting
• Experience with construction management software (Primavera P6, MS Project, Procore, Aconex, CostX, etc.)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced global consultancy or client-facing environment
• Enjoy understanding trends and seeking anomalies in data
• Excellent communicator verbally and in writing
• Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines
• Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun

About Us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. We’re not like the others—we’re different, unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that contribute to a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organization, accessible to all, based on a safe culture that enables all our people to be their true selves. We understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and the better our work will be. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace.

Pay

The salary range for this role is between $80,000 and $110,000, with the actual salary offered dependent on experience, skill set, and education.

Schedule

This position is hybrid from Linesight's Seattle office location.