What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Engineer - Must have Construction industry background (ONLY W2) position at Maven Companies?
Job Details
Must Haves:
- Cost experience
- Experience with submission of labor rates and matching back to the executed agreement
- Understanding of contract language
- More experience with overall disciplines
- Overall knowledge of scopes civil, electrical, instrumentation, mechanical, etc.
- Ability to gather information / be independent
- Experience in checking construction labor
- Construction site environment
- Scopes of work ability to read design drawings
Nice To Haves:
- Contractor pay applications any other types of applications outside of percentages
- Generated cost and forecasting reports
The Role
The Project Control Team s primary objective is to support the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) group in the design, planning, and execution of company infrastructure by providing management with critical decision-making information that ensures projects deliver on time and on budget. The Team does this by closely collaborating with other functional teams throughout the project lifecycle to ensure adequate definition of scope, cost, and schedule; establish reasonable baselines; identify and manage risk; and track, monitor, and report project performance. The Team can then make valuable recommendations that improve and drive project performance.
Tesla is seeking a Cost Engineer with construction experience to support Project Controls team. This position will be directly responsible for reviewing labor cost from contractors, rate verification, change of role validation, invoices review. Cost Management experience desirable.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate resources offered by Staff agencies and cross-reference clients needs
- Verify rates for each resource and ensure it complies with pre-negotiated agreement
- Review compliance for requests of role change
- Ensure proper documentation to backup any role changes, rate changes & other backup is available for audit traceability
- Review invoices submitted by Staff agencies
- Track and prepare periodic reports to communicate metrics and performance of the work that is being controlled
Requirements
- BS in Engineering, Construction, Construction Management, or other relevant areas (with equivalent experience)
- 2-5 years of experience in Change Management, Cost estimating, Cost control and pre-construction services: preferably in industrial, manufacturing, and/or high-tech industries
- Comprehensive understanding of construction means and methods in the civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing disciplines
- Read and Comprehend Construction Design Drawings, Specifications, and Construction scopes of work
- Basic use of Revizto or similar model programs
- Construction Job Titles and Descriptions for all disciplines
- Comprehensive understanding of cost estimating process and procedures for multi-billion dollar facilities
- Advanced MS Excel
- Knowledge of construction schedules
- Ability to work within a high-performance, cross-functional organization with extremely tight timelines and aggressive goals
- Detail oriented with exceptional organizational skills
- Demonstrated problem solving ability in cross-functional environment
- Open-minded, collaborative, and team oriented attitude
- Strong work ethic
