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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senor Construction Estimator/ Cost Engineer to join our team at the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA)! In this role you will report to the Project Controls Manager.  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: Prepares detailed computer generated cost reports, charts and diagrams;  Provides analysis and review of cost/budget expenditure and maintains cost control reports;  Promptly reports anticipated cost overages or other unsatisfactory cost elements;  Maintains liaison with Data Processing in developing support for network calculations, printouts and cost reports, and other cost related services.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion dollar Capital Improvement Program at Los Angeles World Airports.
• Review and analyze 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.
• 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.
• Prolog - Update contract commitments, reconcile and analyze actual expenditures, perform budget transfers, monitor trend status and maintain continuity of WBS structure
• Perform Project closeout resourcefully to ensure as Prolog Data matters in LAWA’s reporting needs
• Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• 5 years or more cost engineering experience directly related to construction projects, preferably aviation projects 
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management or related field
• Demonstrated experience managing and reporting the cost components of large-scale, complex projects; including developing and managing a progress reporting methodology for a complicated design effort.
• Experience with Design-Build and Construction Management at Risk delivery methods is desirable.
• Demonstrated proficiency with a large-scale cost reporting system is required; experience with Prolog is highly desirable. 
• 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.

• Required cost engineer certification, i.e. CCE, CCP

• Thorough familiarity with MS office suite software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Knowledge of Prolog is preferred.

 

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/None

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 75 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in diverse, collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see new possibilities.

Salary Range: 

$70,500.00 - $123,400.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!