Cost & Planning Engineer

Our client is seeking a highly skilled cost and planning engineer whose role would be primarily to develop and maintain a cost control reporting system to detail actual
and forecast costs on the projects/improvement initiatives based on the inputs from team members.
The duties of this role would include but not be limited to, maintaining cost control procedures, including change order/variation order registers, and coordinate project procedures, methods, and norms.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Communicate cost progress, highlight concerns and issues to team members
• Review suppliers and construction contractor’s bids during tender assessment and provide relevant tender clarification information to enable commitments to be made for current and future projects.
• Integrate suppliers and construction contractor’s control system and cost schedule dependencies and feed into the overall budget and monitor their progress regularly.
• Prepare and maintain resource plans and budget, cost forecasting/phasing and Earned Value for projects.
• Establish process to collect actual cost performance, condition and normalize data for future use, develop metrics and benchmarking information.
• Establish process to store Cost, Estimate files accessible.
• Analyze progress and performance against budget Work Program, identify areas of cost overruns requiring corrective action, forecast completions and provide accurate and timely projects cost reports
• Coordinate the preparation of the cost report as required
• Assists in developing risk registers, stakeholder mapping
• Drive Cost benchmarking against historical performance, industry
  norms and established KPIs.
• Establish Performance Measurement Baseline PMB cost, contract baseline and carry out contingency drawdown analysis of ongoing projects and provide management report analysis.
• Develop benchmarking packages at appropriate level to check estimate results from top down versus both internal and external comparable data.
• Provides input to Business Plan and annual budgets development
• Perform uncertainty analysis and sensitivities on cost estimates.
• Manage reviews and audits of cost estimates.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Relevant Degree and/or Certification as a Cost Estimator
• 8 years experience in a lead cost estimating role both the front end and definition or execution phases of an opportunity or project
• Must have been responsible for the establishment, maintenance, and
• delivery of the cost estimating activity for a project
• Excellent analytical, oral, and written communication skills
• Fully versed with Cost Estimating Tools.
   

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