Competitive salary/benefits: for Full-Time Employees: 401(k), Paid PTO and holidays, and health (medical, dental and vision) insurance; for Part-Time employees: 401(k).
Sr. Cost Engineer (Level III)
Full Time • LAWA/LAX
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Pacific Pros is seeking a Senior Cost Engineer (Level III) to be a representative for Los Angeles World Airport (LAWA) to develop and maintain cost data for new construction and renovation work, as required for Terminal Development & Improvement Program projects. These projects may include but are not limited to: Airline Terminal Improvement projects, Airport Service Improvement projects, Terminal Development projects and Asset Renewals.
Region: Los Angeles, CA
Work Location: LAWA has required the candidates be local for this position.
Status: Full-time on-site.
Opening: Winter 2024, Immediate
Position Description Summary
The successful candidate will have proven cost engineering experience with complex, multi-phase, multi-million-dollar construction and/or renovation projects. The general job duties include: Prepares detailed computer generated cost reports, charts and diagrams; Provides analysis and review of cost/budget expenditure and maintains cost control reports; Promptly reports anticipated cost overages or other unsatisfactory cost elements; Maintains liaison with Data Processing in developing support for network calculations, printouts and cost reports, and other cost related services.
Key Identifiers for this Position
- 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.
Essential Job Duties for this position
The Cost Engineer duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion-dollar Capital Improvement Program at Los Angeles World Airports.
- Review and analyze sub-contractor invoices, ensuring expenditures are accurately incurred against appropriate Schedule of Values accounts
- Prepares job costing reports to allocate these expenditures against the appropriate WBS numbers. Ensure that both commitments and expenditures follow the same allocation methodology.
- 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.
- Attend project meetings to provide Project Management with current financial information and trend log regarding potential impacts to project budget or forecast.
- Provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required. Develop creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
- 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.
- Prolog – Update contract commitments, reconcile and analyze actual expenditures, perform budget transfers, monitor trend status and maintain continuity of WBS structure
- Coordinate with LAWA Governance Body to ensure changes to budgets are approved via the Reconciliate Process or Capital Improvement Program Change process
- Perform Project closeout resourcefully to ensure Prolog Data is complete for LAWA’s reporting needs
- Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers
Hardware/Software Knowledge
- Demonstrated proficiency with a large-scale cost reporting system is required; experience with Prolog is highly desirable.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Bluebeam
Required Qualifications
- US Employment Authorization without needing sponsorship
- See Education/Training requirements
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- A valid Driver’s License and compliance with PACIFIC’s Vehicle Policy
- Proficiency with common Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), SharePoint and Adobe Acrobat (PDF files)
- 3+ References from Clients
- 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 program 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.
Element-Specific Requirements/Notes
- May assume other duties as required/needed
- Maybe required to work past regular work shift
- Maybe required to work various shifts as needed
- LAWA will provide a desktop computer that can be VPN’d into
- A laptop will be provided for company business and to VPN into LAWA system when away from the office as necessary
- Cell phone reimbursement is applicable for this position through Pacific Pros Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy
- This is NOT a work from home position
- This is a salaried position based on 40 hours per week
- This is a Monday-Friday full-time position in the office or on the project site at LAX
- After hours or weekend work may be required to perform the duties of the position. This shall be considered part of the salary.
Compensation: $20.00 - $200.00 per hour
Pacific Pros is a privately-owned company specializing in construction engineering, inspection, support services and project management in public works, focusing on heavy civil construction, transportation, sea port and airport projects.
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