Job Description

Are you ready to bring your cost engineering expertise to one of the most iconic airports in the world? A socially and environmentally responsible company is looking for a Cost Engineer to play a pivotal role in a high-impact, multi-million-dollar construction and renovation project at LAX Terminal 5 . In this exciting role, you’ll be working on-site, directly supporting the client (LAX), contributing to complex, multi-phase airport development efforts that will help shape the future of air travel in Los Angeles.

The Cost Engineer will be responsible for, but not limited to:

• 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.
• Liaising with Data Processing in developing support for network calculations, printouts and cost reports, and other cost related services.
• Monitoring project budgets for the multi-billion-dollar Capital Improvement Program at Los Angeles World Airports.
• Reviewing and analyzing sub-contractor invoices, ensuring expenditures are accurately incurred against appropriate Schedule of Values accounts.
• Preparing job costing reports to allocate these expenditures against the appropriate WBS numbers.
• Ensuring that both commitments and expenditures follow the same allocation methodology.
• Performing 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.
• Attending project meetings to provide Project Management with current financial information and trend log regarding potential impacts to project budget or forecast.
• Providing progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required.
• Developing creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
• Reviewing 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.
• Analyzing bid award values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
• Analyzing change order values against current contingency budget and preparing reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
• Updating contract commitments, reconciling and analyzing actual expenditures, performing budget transfers, monitoring trend status and maintaining continuity of WBS structure.
• Coordinating with LAWA Governance Body to ensure changes to budgets are approved via the Reconciliate Process or Capital Improvement Program Change process.
• Performing Project closeout resourcefully to ensure Prolog Data is complete for LAWA’s reporting needs.
• Preparing data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or other related field required.
• Certifications may include PMP, PE, and/or any other relevant Professional Licensure or Certification.
• Required cost engineer certification i.e. CCE, CCP.
• 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.
• Experience with Progressive GMPs, 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.
• Demonstrated proficiency with a large-scale cost reporting system is required; experience with Prolog is highly desirable.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Bluebeam.

Element-Specific Requirements/Notes:

• May assume other duties as required/needed.
• May be required to work past regular work shift.
• May be required to work various shifts as needed.
• LAWA will provide a desktop computer that can be VPN’d into.
• This is a Monday-Friday full-time position in the office or on the project site at LAX.

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