Project Cost Engineer
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to extract:
- About the role: maybe summary paragraph: "As a Project Cost Engineer at Portland General Electric (PGE), you will play a crucial role in supporting capital construction projects with a strong emphasis on budgeting, forecasting and cost control." Also the earlier paragraph about PGE mission. That could be About the role? Actually "About the role" could be the summary and mission. We'll include that.
- Responsibilities: The detailed responsibilities for P2 and P3. Could combine? The posting has separate sections for P2 and P3 responsibilities. We could list responsibilities under a single Responsibilities section, maybe with subpoints. But we need to preserve all info. We can list bullet points for each responsibility, maybe grouping P2 and P3? However they are distinct levels. Could create two sub-sections? But only allowed headings are the given list; we cannot create custom headings. So we need to fit within those headings. We could have Responsibilities section with bullet points covering both P2 and P3 responsibilities. That's okay.
- Requirements: maybe the "Your Qualifications: Required" includes education/experience. That's Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred for p2 and p3" and competencies? Actually Qualifications could be the required education/experience. Skills could be competencies. But we need to follow the instruction: Use headings for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content accordingly.
We have:
- About the role: mission summary and role summary.
- Responsibilities: detailed duties (both P2 and P3).
- Requirements: education/experience required (bachelor's degree, years experience). Could also include physical demands? Those are more like Requirements? Might be better under Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred for p2 and p3" and competencies? Actually "Preferred for p2 and p3: Experience in utility cost control management; projecting and managing project forecasts and construction finance knowledge". That's a qualification.
- Skills: the competencies list (functional competencies). Could be Skills.
- Benefits: Not explicitly stated besides "total rewards package" and "actual total compensation ... commensurate with experience". No specific benefits listed. So we should NOT create Benefits section because no specific content.
- Pay: The posting says "Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity." That's vague; we should not create Pay section because it's not specific (commensurate with experience). The instruction says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It states compensation is commensurate with experience, which is not specific; we should not create Pay section.
- Schedule: mentions "Ability to work long hours Ability to work a variable schedule Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance" and hybrid flexible work arrangements. That's schedule info. So we can create Schedule section with those details.
Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Schedule.
We must not include empty sections.
Now we need to format: About the role
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We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract text.
About the role: Combine the introductory paragraph about PGE and the summary.
Paragraph: "At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all."
Then summary: "As a Project Cost Engineer at Portland General Electric (PGE), you will play a crucial role in supporting capital construction projects with a strong emphasis on budgeting, forecasting and cost control."
We can combine into one
or two. Probably one
with both sentences. Responsibilities: Need to list duties. There's a lot. We'll create bullet points covering both P2 and P3 responsibilities. Could separate but still within same list. Let's extract responsibilities bullet points: From P2 section: - Provides project controls for multiple small- to medium- sized generation, transmission and distribution projects and programs; OR, supports assigned elements or phases of large capital construction projects. - Analyzes project needs and determines the appropriate project cost controls that will help ensure stakeholder and regulatory compliance and meet financial goals; assists with preparations needed to gain project authorizations and support requests from various areas, including but not limited to System Planning, Corporate Planning, Substation Operations, Distribution Engineering, Transmission Engineering and large projects, PSES and other company entities. - Maintains project budgets, cost baselines, and funding forecasts for multiple small to medium sized projects and programs. - Tracks project costs against budgets and cash flow schedules. - Prepares monthly cost forecasts and variance reports. - Identifies cost risks and mitigation strategies early. - Assesses cost impacts to schedule and scope changes. - Prepares cost reports for project teams, leadership, and regulatory stakeholders. - Maintains change log and decisions affecting forecasts and budgets. - Contributes to teams in the analysis of business processes, resource requirements and work efficiency; develops processes, analyzes throughput and refines and streamlines processes; recommends improvements; translates processes into quantitative metrics/KPIs for measuring and reporting on project performance. - Recommends or develops project metrics or operational performance metrics to report on project performance. - Reports on progress to financial metrics. - Implements project controls to help ensure cost control, regulatory, reporting and other project requirements are met. - Updates forecasts in systems as appropriate. - Monitors project during all or assigned phases to identify real or potential deviations to project plans; identifies changes to project due to scope creep, and/or material changes and internal/external resourcing and determines impacts to project success. - Communicates variances and works with project manager (PM) to obtain appropriate level change approval as required. - Works with PM to ensure coordination of efforts to issue timely, accurate project reports on project costs, problems, risks and other significant issues; provides information, reports and presentations to key stakeholders and other company entities. - Administers applicable project management computer systems; manages updates of project documentation; archives project documentation in accordance with records management requirements. - Communicates with stakeholders to coordinate tasks and provide updates. Develops communications specific to each audience. Responds to questions from stakeholders. From P3 section: - Provides project cost engineering for multiple medium- to large- sized generation, transmission and distribution projects and programs. - Analyzes project needs and determines the appropriate project cost controls to help ensure stakeholder and regulatory compliance and meet financial goals; assists with preparations needed to gain project authorizations and support requests from various areas, including but not limited to System Planning, Corporate Planning, Substation Operations, Distribution Engineering, Transmission Engineering and large projects, PSES and other company entities. - Develops and maintains project budgets, cost baselines, and funding forecasts for multiple medium to large sized projects and programs. - Tracks project costs against budgets and cash flow schedules. - Prepares monthly cost forecasts and variance reports. - Identifies cost risks, trends, and mitigation strategies early. - Reviews and evaluates change orders. - Assesses cost impacts to schedule and scope changes. - Prepares cost reports for project teams, leadership, and regulatory stakeholders. - Supports capital reporting and rate case documentation. - Maintains change log and decisions affecting the forecasts and budgets. - Contributes to or leads teams in the analysis of business processes, resource requirements and work efficiency; develops processes, analyzes throughput and refines and streamlines processes; recommends improvements; translates processes into quantitative metrics/KPIs for measuring and reporting on project performance. - Makes recommendations and provides team support on systems and potential enhancements; manages and prioritizes improvements and enhancements; collaborates broadly with operations, IT and other stakeholders to define the evolving objectives and deliverables. - Develops project metrics or operational performance metrics to report on project performance. - Develops and maintains financial metrics to communicate status updates, planned action and deviations requiring development of recovery plans. - Prepares reports for management. - Designs and implements project controls to help ensure cost control, regulatory, reporting and other project requirements are met. - Identifies risks and recommends remediation. - Updates forecasts in systems as appropriate. - Monitors project during all phases to identify real or potential deviations to project plans; identifies scoping changes, analyzes impacts and adjusts project plans accordingly. - Communicates variances and works with project manager (PM) to obtain appropriate level change approval as required. - Works with PM to ensure coordination of efforts to issue timely, accurate project reports on project costs, problems, risks and other significant issues; develops and provides information, reports and presentations to key stakeholders and other company entities. - Administers applicable project management computer systems; manages updates of project documentation; archives project documentation in accordance with records management requirements. - May build databases and applications to serve the business need for tracking and reporting. - May serve as a product owner and subject matter expert for project database used for strategic and long-term planning projects. - Accountable for product and service integrity including but not limited to: features, functions, security, performance, reliability, usability and accessibility. - Build relationships with key stakeholders and develops communication plans. - Provides updates and coordinates tasks with stakeholders as needed. - Designs communications specific to each audience. - Provides technical guidance and expertise to stakeholders. We need to include all these bullet points. That's a lot but okay. We can combine duplicates? Many are similar. But we must preserve all substantive info; we can keep them as is, maybe deduplicate similar points? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should not remove details. Duplicates may be okay to keep but we could keep both; but it's repetitive. However we could keep them as separate bullet points; it's still preserving info. It's okay. But we need to avoid excessive repetition? Not prohibited. We'll keep them. Now Requirements: Education/Experience/Certifications. - Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, finance, project management, engineering, construction management or other related field or equivalent experience. - Experience P2 – Intermediate: Typically, two or more years working in a technical field in a regulated utility company or large complex engineering and construction programs or a related field. - Experience P3 – Career: Typically, five or more years working in a technical field in a regulated utility company or large complex engineering and construction programs or a related field. We could present as bullet points. Qualifications: Preferred for p2 and p3: Experience in utility cost control management; projecting and managing project forecasts and construction finance knowledge. Also maybe "Competencies (knowledge, Skills, Abilities)" but that's Skills. Thus Qualifications section bullet: Experience in utility cost control management; projecting and managing project forecasts and construction finance knowledge. Skills: list of functional competencies. We need to extract the competencies list: "Functional Competencies: Unless otherwise noted, P2 reflects working knowledge/skill and P3 reflects intermediate knowledge/skill. P2/P3: Project management/project controls principles, techniques, methods and standards, particularly related to construction projects and programs P2/P3: Project management computer applications and tools, such as team collaboration software, financial tools and spreadsheets P2/P3: Asset, financial and inventory management software P2/P3: Construction estimating, project risk management, project scope control and project communication management; P3 also includes job planning, design and construction activities P2/P3: Procurement, utility accounting and budgeting; P2 includes working knowledge of PGE procurement policies