LAWA Sr. Cost Engineer (Level III)
Pacific Pros · Los Angeles, CA · 2 mo ago
On-siteManagement$120k–$170k/yrFull-time
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Region
Los Angeles, CAStatus
Full-time, on-site, salaried position.Position Description Summary
The successful candidate will have proven cost engineering experience with complex, multi-phase, multi-million-dollar construction and/or enabling projects. The general job duties include: preparing detailed computer-generated cost reports, charts and diagrams; providing analysis and review of cost/budget expenditure and maintaining cost control reports; promptly reporting anticipated cost overages or other unsatisfactory cost elements; maintaining liaison with Data Processing in developing support for network calculations, printouts and cost reports, and other cost related services.Essential Job Duties
- Maintain project budgets for the multi-billion-dollar Capital Improvement Program at Los Angeles World Airports.
- Analyze and review sub-contractor invoices, ensuring expenditures are accurately incurred against appropriate Schedule of Values accounts.
- Prepare job costing reports to allocate expenditures against appropriate WBS numbers.
- Perform cost-to-complete analysis for all cost elements within a project, considering 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 logs regarding potential impacts to project budget or forecast.
- Develop progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required.
- Review task orders for contractors, sub-consultants, and City of Los Angeles Interdepartmental Orders to ensure necessary budget and/or contract capacity exists, and ensure these actual commitments are accurately entered/tracked into LAWA’s system of record.
- Analyze bid award values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
- Analyze change order values against current contingency budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
- Analyze task order values against current allowance budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
- Update contract commitments, reconcile and analyze actual expenditures, perform budget transfers, monitor trend status, and maintain continuity of WBS structure.
- Cookordination with LAWA Governance Body to ensure changes to budgets are approved via the Reconciliate Process or Capital Improvement Program Change process.
- Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers.
Qualifications
- 10 years or more of cost engineering experience directly related to construction projects, preferably aviation projects.
- Experience managing a team of cost engineers.
- 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. Experience with Design-Build and Construction Management at Risk delivery methods is desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to understand technical and complicated construction programs 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.
- Proven accuracy, reliability, and completeness in job accomplishment.
Education/Training
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or other related technical field required.
- Certifications required, may include PMP, PE, and/or any other relevant Professional Licensure or Certification. Required cost engineer certification i.e. CCE, CCP.
Additional Requirements
- 3+ References from Clients
- US Employment Authorization without needing sponsorship
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- A valid Driver’s License and compliance with PACIFIC’s Vehicle Policy