Senior Cost Engineer - Aviation
About The Position
STV is seeking a Senior Cost Engineer to join our Project Controls department at our client site in San Antonio, Texas. This position will be fully onsite 5 days/week. The Senior Cost Engineer reports to the TDIP Program Controls Manager. The Sr. Cost Engineer shall be responsible for developing and maintaining 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 Renewal. 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.
Requirements
- Demonstrated proficiency with a large-scale cost reporting system is required; experience with Prolog is highly desirable.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Bluebeam.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Design-Build and Construction Management at Risk delivery methods is desirable.
- Experience with Prolog is highly desirable.
Responsibilities
- Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion-dollar Capital Improvement Program.
- 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 Interdepartmental Orders to ensure necessary budget and/or contract capacity exists, and ensure these actual commitments are accurately entered/tracked into 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 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 client's reporting needs.
- Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers.
Benefits
- Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable)
- Disability insurance
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- 401(k) Plan
- Retirement Counseling
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off (starting at 16 days)
- Paid Holidays (9 days)
- Back-Up Dependent Care (up to 10 days per year)
- Parental Leave (up to 80 hours)
- Continuing Education Program
- Professional Licensure and Society Memberships
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
