Responsibilities:

• Provides input and recommendations for cost engineering requirements relative to staffing and project control for the full range of cost engineering activities.
• Prepares detailed manpower work plans for cost engineering activities.
• Reviews, as directed, cost engineering and material control-related provisions of proposals and develops supporting data for contract negotiations.
• Prepares cost presentations and interfaces with designated management and client counterparts for specific cost engineering tasks.
• Is responsible for the timely and competent performance of cost estimates.
• Establishes the conceptual scope of estimates and studies.
• Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between projects.
• Coordinates and establishes coping requirements for the overall cost estimate by discipline or other specialty and coordinates the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
• Plans, coordinates, and establishes the level of quantification appropriate to the objectives of the effort and to the level of scope definition for each discipline or specialty. Designates reference job(s) for source data and/or reconciliations of quantities. Reviews quantities and their completeness and reasonableness.
• Coordinates pricing structure or criteria to be used by each discipline or specialty, meeting the objectives of the cost estimate.
• Establishes the format and content of summaries and reconciliations, including the segregation of cost according to the level of confidence and identification of areas of risk.
• Supervises the preparation of project cost budgets for compliance with budgeting standards, completeness, and accuracy.
• Defines project needs for cost control by established company and client contractual requirements, objectives, and procedures.
• Supervises the timely and competent performance of cost control activities.

Requirments: 

• BS degree in Engineering with a minimum of 6 years of experience in project cost engineering functions.
• Demonstrated skills in cost estimating, cost control, and proposal activities.
• Knowledgeable about engineering, construction, and business management techniques.
• Familiar with current industry trends and technical developments.