Job Description
The Tsui Group is seeking a qualified and experienced Cost EngineerII to join our aviation team in Los Angeles County.
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.
Essential Job Duties:
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 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 and sub-consultants to ensure necessary budget and/or contract capacity exists.
- Analyze bid award values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
- Analyze change order values against current 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
- Perform Project closeout resourcefully to ensure as Prolog Data matters in LAWA's reporting needs
- Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers
- May assume other duties as required/needed
- Maybe required to work various shifts as needed
- This position offers a hybrid/telework schedule
Requirements
Professional Experience Level/Other Qualifications:
- 5+ years of cost engineering experience directly related to construction projects, preferably aviation projects
- 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 proficiency with a large-scale cost reporting system is required; experience with Prolog is highly 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.
Education/Training:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
- Required cost engineer certification i.e. CCE, CCP.
Hardware/Software Knowledge:
- Thorough familiarity with MS office suite software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Knowledge of Prolog is preferred.
Benefits
- Salary Range: $118,000-$123,000
- Medical, Vision, & Dental 100% covered for the employee
- Life and Disability Insurance
- 10.5 days of Vacation pay (Accrued)
- 6 days of Sick pay (Available Immediately)
- 10 days of Holiday pay (9 Holidays, 1 Personal Day)
- 3% Employer Contribution 401k (After 1 year of service)
- Monthly Stipend for Cell Phone
- Laptop for work purposes
Qualification
Bachelor's Degree
Key skill Required
- Project Management
- Construction
- Cost control
- Data Processing
- MS Office
- Analysis
- Aviation
- Capital Improvement
- Change Orders
- Closeout
- Construction Management
- Cost Engineering
- Cost Reporting
- Demonstrated Ability
- Design
- Disability Insurance
- Documentation
- Insurance
- Job Costing
- Management
- Methodology
- Progress Reporting
- Project Closeout
- Related Services
- Renovation
- Reporting
- Training
