Cost Engineer - Civil (Graduate)

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Project Overview

Bechtel has been involved over the last 80 years in some of the world’s busiest and most complex airport projects, including Greenfield and Brownfield developments. In the GCC, we have held significant roles on King Khalid, King Fahad, Dubai, Hamad, and Muscat international airports. As we consider the future of aviation globally and in the GCC, we are very enthusiastic about the future of aviation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

We are currently considering candidates with aviation, other transportation or complex public accessible building project experience to provide project management consultancy services (including technical, commercial and construction management) for a major infrastructure project in Riyadh. 

Job Summary:

Supports cost estimating, analysis, and control activities and schedule development, maintenance, reporting, and monitoring activities, as directed. For a large project or staff group, duties encompass a variety of tasks, but remain within parameters established by the procedure or process being supported. For a medium project staff group, duties encompass a variety of tasks that are required to support the project/group.

Major Responsibilities:

• Supports cost estimating, analysis, and control activities and schedule development, maintenance, reporting, and monitoring activities, as directed 
• Collects or receives, as directed, drawings and other scope definition documentation that applies to assigned discipline or commodity specialty and verifies adequacy and completeness 
• Performs, as directed, routine quantity takeoffs, within discipline or commodity specialty, from engineering and construction drawings 
• Collects and tabulates quantity data for summary comparisons and reconciliations, or verifies quantities provided by others 
• Prepares and presents cost/schedule information at meetings, as directed 
• Oversees the maintenance and upkeep of detailed project risk register through ongoing reviews to ensure data quality, accuracy, and timeliness including facilitation support during the risk workshops, risk identification sessions and other risk related activities 
• Operates, manages, and oversees use of Active Risk Manager (ARM) or equivalent risk register software tool 
• Assists the Project Risk Specialist or Project Risk Manager in the preparation of risk analysis recommendations, reports, metrics, and presentations 
• Works with Risk Owners to update and satisfy project record keeping and data archival requirements in support of PERM activities 

Education and Experience Requirements:

Fresh graduate within the past 12 months, holding bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Working knowledge of Primavera or Microsoft Project Scheduling software, Power BI, Access, and/or Excel.
• Prior internship experience working in an engineering, project management, construction management environment.
• Prior internship or college project experience in estimating, planning and scheduling, budget control and cost control.
• Basic understanding of technical processes, interpretation of engineering drawings, and project management practices associated with engineering and construction projects.
• Ability and willingness to frequently relocate and/or travel to domestic and/or international project jobsite locations.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Demonstrated levels of initiative and engagement via positions of leadership in academic, sports and/or extracurricular activities.

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