Senior Cost Engineer

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 10 rankings in ENR. With over 60 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

We are currently hiring a Senior Cost Engineer located in Los Angeles, CA. This opportunity will have you working within our aviation project construction sector in direct support of the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP), which encompasses multiple projects.

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 cost reports, charts, and diagrams; providing analysis and review of cost/budget expenditures; and maintaining cost control reports.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion dollar capital improvement program at Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).

• 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 LAWA'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.

• Prologue - Update contract commitments, reconcile and analyze actual expenditures, performed budget transfers, monitor trend status and maintain continuity of WBS structure.

• Coordinate with LAWA Governance Body to ensure changes to budgets are approved via the reconciliation process or capital improvement program change process.

• Perform project closeout resourcefully to ensure Prolog data is complete for LAWA's reporting needs. 

• ​Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Demonstrated experience managing and reporting the cost components of large scale, complex projects, including developing and managaing a progress reporting methodology for a complicated design effort.

• Experience with Design-Build and Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) delivery methods is desirable.

• Demonstrated ability to understand technical and complicated construction programs and the ability to communicate progress to both technical and management level personnel.

• Deliver quality work product by role modeling organizational core values. 

• Consistently communicate and collaborate with team members and clients. 

• Build relationships with peers, leaders, and clients. 

• Provide pricing expertise in various phases of construction work. 

• Ability to quickly analyze, compare, and interpret detailed but sometimes poorly defined information. 

• Understand construction technology, economics of construction, construction delivery methodologies, local requirements on tax and insurances as they impact construction costs, ability to understand general conditions and general requirements at a detailed level.  

• Understand construction law in the local market, applicabl