Senior Cost Engineer, Sentinel

Requisition ID: 293842 

•  Relocation Authorized: National - Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Ogden, UT

 

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) partner on the Northrop Grumman team to deliver the Sentinel Program, which is modernizing the ground-based leg of the U.S. nuclear deterrent triad, including intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems and launch infrastructure. Bechtel’s scope of service in Sentinel’s current Engineering & Manufacturing Development phase focuses on the ground infrastructure component of the program.

 

A major contractor for the United States and allied governments, Bechtel has handled such efforts as chemical weapons demilitarization projects, missile-defense, infrastructure, base operations, procurement and project management, and restoration and recovery spanning half a century. We use our expertise to help our customers securely and effectively transform mission delivery.

For more information on the Sentinel program: https://www.bechtel.com/projects/sentinel/

Job Summary:

This position supports daily operations of the Sentinel project controls cost team with a strong focus on cost engineering and financial reporting. This position requires someone to be comfortable working independently on complex issues, coordinating across functions, and reporting to management and various internal/external stakeholders on progress and performance for the project. The position will support the team in creating, planning, and facilitating review and approval of various project cost deliverables. #LI-EH1

Major Responsibilities:

• Coordinates the development, multi-discipline inputs, checking, reviews, and approvals of funding, invoicing, and financial processes and deliverables.
• Interfaces with designated Bechtel management and client counterparts for cost presentations.
• Performs data analysis, identifies issues, and makes recommendations.
• Prepare, maintain, and present the project cashflow and funding deliverables that are issued to the client.
• Prepares and presents cost engineering information.
• Creates and implements measurement systems for established processes, analyzes performance metric results, and identifies improvements.
• Reviews and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, performance and cost data.
• Identifies trends and supports the change control program.
• Provides comments and recommendations for cost engineering requirements.
• Establishes format and content of summaries and reconciliations, including segregation of cost according to level of confidence and identified areas of risk.
• Coordinates pricing structure or criteria to be used by each discipline or specialty to meet the objectives of cost estimates and control.
• Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness.
• Supports requested development of timely and competent trend estimates.
• Supports project needs for cost control in accordance with established Bechtel and