Senior Cost Engineer

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is building a semiconductor manufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio. We are partnering with the North America Building Trades Unions and suppliers to create several thousand new jobs and work with local education organizations to implement new training programs that will support the future talent pipeline. Bechtel Manufacturing & Technology, Inc. offers engineering, procurement, and construction services for customers in the semiconductor manufacturing, electric vehicle, and data center markets. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the M&T global business unit also includes colleagues working in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, India, and additional project locations around the world.

Job Summary:

In this position, you will lead a team to manage cost engineering, cost estimating, cost analysis/control, forecasting, and planning/scheduling activities for a project that requires technical skill and expertise. You will provide leadership, oversight, guidance, training, and mentoring to your team on key project procedures and risk management to ensure successful project execution and delivery. #LI-BH1

Job Dimensions:

• Supervision Received - Reports to and receives technical guidance and operational supervision from designated supervisory personnel.
• Supervision Exercised -  Provides technical and operational direction to assigned personnel, when delegated.
• Contacts - Maintains relationships with project personnel, particularly with individual discipline group leaders and engineers.

Major Responsibilities:

• Prepares Project Controls plans, and detailed internal manpower utilization plans for discipline or specialty activities. 
• Assists in preparing cost data for proposals or contract negotiations.
• Participates in developing and presenting training classes on designated subjects and on-the-job training programs.
• Conducts personnel performance reviews, when delegated.
• Interviews candidates and makes recommendations for employment decisions. 
• Determines scope definition requirements for a discipline or other specialty and works with Engineering and other sources to coordinate the production of required data to conform to the overall estimate preparation plan.
• Performs or coordinates quantity development and verification for a discipline or specialty.
• Develops, or assists in the development of, quantity bases for assumption. 
• Performs, or coordinates the performance of, pricing structure development and application to takeoffs, derived quantities, quantity assumption, and cost allowances within a discipline or other specialty.
• Plans, coordinates, and directs preparation of specific budgets.
• Assists in developing requirements for budgeting standards.
• Develops and implements requirements for cost recording, reporting, and analyzing standards, programs, and reports.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Performs performance monitoring and control functions.
• Assists in developing specific project codes of accounts and recommends appropriate modifications and revisions.
• This includes training in the proper use of and definitions for the cost accounts.
• Investigates requirements for estimating and/or cost control data for a specific discipline or other specialty applications.
• Identifies or defines data sources and techniques for data acquisition and collects required data for a specific discipline or other specialty applications.
• Assists in developing unit hour and pricing data for a specific discipline or other specialty, including estimating parameters, factors, indices, productivity and craft distribution reference data, etc., based on analysis of Bechtel and industry experience.
• Performs data analysis, identifies problems, and makes recommendations.
• Creates and implements measurement systems for given processes, analyzes performance metric results, and identifies improvements.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8 -10  years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing cost engineering functions, which include cost estimating, cost control, and cost analysis, in the field and the home office.
• Knowledge in the use of computers for executing work processes.
• Statistical knowledge in the areas of sampling, distributions, probability, and hypothesis testing for metrics.
• Knowledge of supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and nontechnical personnel.
• Skilled in oral and written communication. Knowledge of financial reporting systems and controller account codes, and an understanding of Controller instructions, which impact Project Controls (including Project Financial Status Reports and Earned Revenue Determination Data)

Preferred Qualifications: Intermediate level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes, as performed by Bechtel. Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.

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