Cost Engineer

Job Description

D'Leon Consulting Engineers is seeking a Cost Engineer in Los Angeles, California

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze sub-contractor invoices, ensuring expenditures are accurately incurred against appropriate Schedule of Values accounts Project Controls
• 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.
• 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.
• Perform Project closeout resourcefully to ensure Prolog Data is complete
• Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or other related technical field required
• 3 years or more of cost engineering experience directly related to construction projects, preferably aviation projects
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Bluebeam
• Demonstrated proficiency with a large-scale cost reporting system is required; experience with Prolog is highly desirable