Cost Reporting Manager

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Not Applicable/None
Job Description:
Ready to put your project engineer expertise to work on marquee infrastructure
projects that will change the fabric of our community? Would you enjoy being
involved on a wide variety of engineering tasks on large scale, complex
projects? Parsons is now hiring a Principal Project Control Engineer for our
rapidly expanding transportation project.
Position Overview:
Responsible for cost estimating, analysis and control activities. Supports
project organizational and administrative activities.
Responsiblities:
Provides input and recommendations for cost engineering requirements relative
to staffing and project control for the full range of cost engineering
activities. Prepares detailed manpower work plans for cost engineering
activities.
Reviews as directed cost engineering and material control related provisions
of proposals, and develops supporing data for contract negotiations.
Prepares cost presentations and interfaces with designated management and
client counterparts for specific cost engineering tasks.
Responsible for the timely and competent performance of cost estimates.
Establishes the conceptual scope of estimates and studies. Prepares and
analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities and cost data between projects.
Coordinates and establishes coping requirements for the overall cost estimate
by discipline or other specialty and coordinates the timely, systematic and
complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
Plans, coordinates and establishes level of quantification appropriate to the
objectives of the effort and to the level of scope definition for each
discipline or specialty and designates reference job(s) for source data and/or
reconciliations of quantities. Reviews quantities and their completeness and
reasonableness.
Coordinates pricing structure or criteria to be used by each discipline or
specialty which meet the objectives of the cost estimate.
Establishes format and content of summaries and reconciliations, including
segregation of cost according to level of confidence, identification of areas
of risk.
Supervises the preparation of project cost budgets for compliance with
budgeting standards, completeness and accuracy.
Defines project needs for cost control in accordance with established company
and client contractual requirements, objectives and prrocedures.
Supervises the timely and competent performance of cost control activities.
Reviews and critiques designs and specifications for cost effectiveness and
suggests alternatives when appropriate.
Supervises cost recording, monitoring, and reporting practices for compliance
with applicable standards.
Supervises investigating requirements for estimating and/or cost control data
for specific discipline or other specialty applications.
Identifies needs for cost analysis support for the project, and recommends
development of modification of cost engineering data standards.
Assists in developing unit manhour and pricing data for a specific discipline
or other specialty, including estimating parameters, factors indices,
productivity and craft distribution reference data, etc. based on analysis of
company and industry experience. Performs data analysis. Identifies problems
and makes recommendations.

Qualifications:
BS degree in Engineering ore related field with minimum ‎15 years experience
performing, monitoring, reviewing and presenting project cost engineering
functions which include cost estimating, cost control, cost analysis and
proposal activities with demonstrated skill in establishing criteria, planning
and supervising project cost engineering activities.
Experience and demonstrated skill in supervising cost estimates, cost control,
and overall project reporting activities.
Knowledge of engineering, construction, and business management techniques
customarily acquired by prolonged course of specialized instruction.
Familiarity with industry practices and technical development.
Proficient PC skills including proficiency in various Project Controls
software and Microsoft Office Suite
Excellent communication skills and must have potential to perform in a lead
capacity.