Senior Cost Engineer, Mobile Launcher 2

Requisition ID: 274700 

•  Relocation Authorized: National/International - Family 
• Telework Type: Full-Time Office/Project 
• Work Location: Cape Canaveral 

 

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Project Overview

NASA has selected Bechtel National, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, to design and build a second mobile launcher, known as Mobile Launcher 2 or ML2, for Exploration Ground Systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

 

Position Summary

Leads the project controls cost team in 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 project cost reporting.

 

Responsibilities

• Provides comments and recommendations for cost engineering requirements.
• Coordinates the development, multi-discipline inputs, checking, reviews, and approvals of the Project Financial Status Report (PFSR) and related financial processes, as needed.
• Prepares detailed staffing plans for cost engineering activities.
• Reviews or assists in reviewing change proposal provisions related to cost and material control and develops supporting data for contract negotiations.
• Identifies trends and supports the change control program.
• Interfaces with designated Bechtel management and client counterparts for cost presentations.
• Prepares and presents cost engineering information.
• Participates in developing and presenting training classes and on-the-job training for cost related processes and practices.
• Conducts personnel performance reviews when delegated. Interviews candidates and makes recommendations for employment decisions.
• Coordinates information input into studies. Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion.
• Reviews and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, performance and cost data.
• Creates and implements measurement systems for established processes, analyzes performance metric results, and identifies improvements.
• Supervises and supports the compilation of historical data.
• Develops timely and competent trend cost estimates.
• 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.
• Assists in developing unit job hour and pricing data, including estimating parameters, factors indices, productivity, and craft distribution reference data, etc., based on analysis of Bechtel, project and industry experience.
• Performs data analysis, identifies issues, and makes recommendations.
• Establishes productivity basis to be utilized in estimates, as developed in concurrence with Construction.
• Reviews labor estimates for reasonableness.
• Defines project needs for cost control in accordance with established Bechtel and client contractual requirements, objectives, and procedures.
• Supports the timely and competent performance of cost control activities.
• Supports cost recording, monitoring, and reporting practices for compliance with applicable standards accuracy and consistency.

 

Qualifications and Skills

Basic Qualifications

• Level 1 : Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and at least 9 years of professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, a high school diploma or equivalent and at least 15 years of professional experience.
• Level 2 : Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and at least 13 years of professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, a hi