Cost Engineer - Civil Structural Architectural

About the role

WWPS is seeking a Cost Engineer - CSA Civil, Structural, Architectural to support a major semiconductor construction project in Peoria, Arizona.

Responsibilities

• Represent the owner's interests in all cost management activities associated with civil, structural, and architectural scopes.
• Develop, maintain, and validate budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, and estimates at completion for assigned CSA work packages.
• Prepare accurate monthly cost reports that identify variances in commitments, value of work completed, approved and pending changes, contingency usage, escalation exposure, and forecasted final cost.
• Reconcile project controls data with the owner's financial systems, approved control budgets, contract values, purchase orders, and contractor reporting.
• Review design drawings, specifications, bid packages, scopes of work, schedules, RFIs, submittals, field directives, and change documentation to determine cost impact.
• Perform quantity takeoffs and independent cost checks using civil plans, structural drawings, architectural drawings, BIM models, contractor breakdowns, and field verified quantities.
• Validate civil costs associated with mass excavation, grading, site concrete, foundations, underground structures, stormwater systems, paving, curbs, sidewalks, fencing, and site development.
• Validate structural costs associated with cast in place concrete, reinforcing steel, structural steel, metal decking, embeds, anchor bolts, precast elements, miscellaneous metals, stairs, platforms, and equipment support framing.
• Validate architectural costs associated with building envelope systems, roofing, waterproofing, exterior wall assemblies, doors and hardware, interior partitions, ceilings, raised access floors, cleanroom architectural systems, coatings, firestopping, and interior finishes.
• Evaluate cleanroom and advanced manufacturing architectural packages, including modular wall systems, walkable ceilings, ceiling grids, raised floors, air return walls, specialty sealants, and contamination control finishes.
• Review contractor estimates and proposals for labor, material, equipment, productivity, indirect costs, general conditions, markups, escalation, schedule impacts, and contingency.
• Lead or support change order reviews and negotiations with the owner, construction managers, general contractors, trade contractors, designers, and vendors.
• Identify scope gaps, overlaps, exclusions, allowances, design development exposure, and interface risks between civil, structural, architectural, MEP, process, and tool install packages.
• Track potential change orders, approved change orders, trends, claims, and unresolved commercial issues from identification through final disposition.
• Review payment applications and progress invoices for contractual compliance, percent complete, stored materials, installed quantities, retention, and supporting documentation.
• Assess earned value, production rates, labor hours, installed quantities, and field progress to confirm that reported performance aligns with actual work in place.
• Support bid phase activities, including scope review, bidder questions, estimate normalization, bid leveling, commercial evaluation, recommendation development, and award documentation.
• Develop risk based cost contingencies for design maturity, unknown site conditions, procurement exposure, labor productivity, rework, access constraints, schedule compression, and phased turnover requirements.
• Coverage with project managers, construction managers, estimators, schedulers, procurement, design teams, field engineering, finance, and commissioning personnel to maintain an integrated cost forecast.
• Provide timely cost analysis and recommendations to senior project leadership and the owner's team in a clear, concise, and decision ready format.
• Maintain audit ready cost records, supporting documentation, assumptions, estimate bases, quantity logs, change files, meeting notes, and approval history.
• Support monthly accruals, commitment reconciliation, purchase order updates, cost coding, invoice resolution, and financial closeout activities.
• Develop and monitor performance metrics for contractor forecasting accuracy, change cycle time, productivity, cost growth, contingency usage, and package closeout.
• Promote standardization, process improvement, cost avoidance, cost reduction, and lessons learned across the project controls team.
• Support final account reconciliation, contract closeout, claims resolution, punch list cost tracking, and turnover of complete cost records.
• Contribute to the development of junior staff through coaching and training in cost engineering practices, tools, and CSA construction cost analysis.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 to 7 years of related experience in construction cost engineering, estimating, quantity surveying, project controls, or commercial management.
• Demonstrated experience supporting civil, structural, and architectural construction packages on large, complex projects.
• Experience working for an owner, owner's representative, EPCM firm, general contractor, construction manager, design firm, or major trade contractor.
• Strong understanding of cost control principles, forecasting, change management, earned value, commitment tracking, accruals, and estimate at completion development.
• Ability to read and interpret civil, structural, and architectural drawings, specifications, contracts, bid documents, schedules, and change documentation.
• Experience performing quantity takeoffs, estimate validation, bid leveling, payment application review, and change order analysis.
• Proficiency with cost management and project controls systems such as EcoSys, SAP, Oracle, Prolog, or comparable platforms.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and working knowledge of Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent analytical, written, verbal, negotiation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to work onsite in Peoria, Arizona and operate effectively in a fast paced, multi stakeholder project environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on semiconductor fabs, cleanrooms, advanced manufacturing plants, pharmaceutical facilities, battery plants, data centers, or other mission critical projects.
• Experience with large scale concrete, structural steel, building envelope, cleanroom architectural, or site development packages.
• Familiarity with BIM based quantity validation, model based estimating, and design progression cost analysis.
• Knowledge of Arizona construction conditions, regional subcontractor markets, labor productivity, and material pricing is beneficial.
• CCP, CEP, CCEA, CCC, MRICS, or equivalent cost engineering or quantity surveying certification is preferred.

Education

• A bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or another construction related discipline is preferred.
• Equivalent relevant experience will be considered.