Title:                   Cost Engineer 
Position Type:    Contract to Hire
Location:            Omaha, NE
Reports to:         Project Manager
Status:               Exempt

Job Summary:  
PIC Group is in need of an experienced Cost Engineer to work for one of the world’s most respected design, engineering, and project management consultancies for a terminal modernization project. The Cost Engineer will report to the Project Manager preparing cost reports, attend project meetings, review tasks, budgets, and forecast information. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
•    Monitor project budgets for the Terminal Modernization Program. 
•    Review and analyze contractor and sub-contractor invoices. Prepares job costing reports to 
•    allocate these expenditures against the appropriate WBS numbers. Ensure that both 
•    commitments and expenditures follow the same allocation methodology. 
•    Enter data into the Program Management Information System (PMIS) for cost related 
•    business processes. 
•    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 and sub-consultants to ensure necessary budget and/or 
•    contract capacity exists. 
•    Analyze bid award values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in 
•    the current forecast at completion. 
•    Analyze change order values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include 
•    in the current forecast at completion. 
•    Prepare data to support documentation required for budget transfers and payment 
•    validation. 
•    Produce cost-related reports showing key performance indicators (KPIs) from the PMIS.

Job Requirements:
•    Demonstrated experience managing and reporting the cost components of large-scale, 
•    complex projects; including developing and managing a progress reporting methodology for 
•    a complicated multi-phased construction effort. 
•    Ability to address the full life cycle of Cost Engineering/Forecasting 
•    Experience in forensic claims work on major construction project. 
•    Demonstrated ability to understand technical and complicated construction program and the 
•    ability to communicate progress to both technical- and management-level personnel. 
•    Ability to work with others, a self-starter with results-driven focus. 
•    Thorough familiarity with MS office suite software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI and 
•    Outlook, (proficient in Excel) 

Physical Requirements:
•    Office and site environments with travel as required. 
•    While on site, may require protective equipment (i.e., hard hats, safety glasses, air masks, ear protection, etc.)

Education / Experience:
•    5+ yrs field cost engineering experience with minimum 3 yrs in direct support of an active construction project.
•    Experience with Design-Build delivery method is desirable.
•    Experience with PMWeb (PMIS) is a plus. 
•    Familiarity with Primavera, (P6) is a plus.