Cost Engineer III, Los Angeles

Cost Engineer III

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KDG Construction Consulting is seeking a Cost Engineer III to join our team. 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 preparing detailed computer-generated cost reports, charts and diagrams, providing analysis and review of cost/budget expenditure, maintaining cost control reports, promptly reporting anticipated cost overages or other unsatisfactory cost elements, maintaining liaison with Data Processing in developing support for network calculations, printouts and cost reports, and other cost related services.

Responsibilities and Duties:

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 of Los Angeles Interdepartmental Orders to ensure necessary budget and/or contract capacity exists, and ensure these actual commitments are accurately entered/tracked into client's 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 client 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

Hardware/Software Knowledge:

Demonstrated proficiency with a large-scale cost reporting system is required; experience with Prolog is highly desirable.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Bluebeam

Professional Experience/Other Qualifications:

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.

Required Education/Training:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or other related field required.
Cost engineer certification i.e. CCE, CCP required.
Certifications may include PMP, PE, and/or any other relevant Professional Licensure or Certification.

Anticipated Hourly Range: $148,000.00 - $159,700.00 per year
The offered salary will be based on the applicant's qualifications, education, experience, and work location.

About KDG: KDG Construction Consulting is a leading provider of program, project, and construction management services. The firm serves clients in a broad range of markets throughout Southern California, including aviation, transportation, and infrastructure. KDG provides a full spectrum of management and technical services spanning the entire lifecycle of a construction project.

Employment with KDG: KDG is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, coidentity, national sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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Location:: Los Angeles

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