Job Description:

Essential Job Functions & Tasks:

1. Aid estimating staff members in evaluation and understanding of actual costs measured against estimated costs (within the Project Lifecycle Management Process).

2. Collaborate with Project Management (PM), and other vested parties to facilitate, lead, and perform project revision processes. Including, but not limited to the development of estimate vs EAC cost driver summaries, as well as the creation of revised estimates.

3. Assist with increasing efficiencies within project cost evaluations.

4. Assist with data management and improvements to information within the estimating department.

5. Develop and demonstrate an economic and business acumen with an understanding of the engineering & design, procurement, contracting, estimating, project management, construction and startup procedures and processes.

6. Develop and demonstrate strategic thinking, planning, risk assessment and prioritization of project activities skills.

7. Comprehend contingency applications (risk-based & percentage-based) (understand how field conditions impact contingencies).

8. Utilize reporting mechanisms within the company's systems.

9. Train and learn to use estimating application(s) within the department.

10. Exhibit an understanding of construction schedules, and how they affect cost on projects.

11. Exhibit an understanding of construction contracting processes.

12. Interface with various departments within the company (Financial Controls/Business Operations/Engineering/Project Management/Construction Management/etc.).

13. Interface with different Standards groups (Station/T-Line/etc.) within the company to understand data structure, and devise methods of capturing data within estimates.

14. Develop and demonstrate conflict management skills to resolve disputes and to maximize synergies with an overriding goal to do the "right thing" for the company.

15. Support continuous improvement efforts within company/department.

16. Provide training and guidance to lower-level employees as appropriate. Demonstrate development in several areas. Ability to mentor, develop, and guide lower-level analysts through a training plan if appointed as mentor/trainer by supervision.

Project Cost Analyst: 

1. Minimum Qualifications: Qualified Bachelor's degree, plus two (2) years of qualified experience; qualified Associate's degree, plus four (4) years of qualified experience in the areas aforementioned.

Project Cost Analyst, Sr: 

2. Minimum Qualifications: Qualified Bachelor’s degree, plus five (5) years of qualified experience; qualified Associate's degree, plus seven (7) years of qualified experience in the areas forementioned.

Qualified degrees must be in a related field from an accredited university or college and could include Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, Technology, or Project Management.

Qualified Experience:

17. Includes utility specific operations knowledge/experience with a good working knowledge of work processes and procedures.

18. Areas of experience should include combination of planning, project management, project controls (scheduling, cost tracking/analysis, forecasting, project budgets, working with accounting principles), and/or construction management.