Cost Estimator

Key Responsibilities
Estimating and Scheduling Support

Review and provide input on specifications for engineered equipment and subcontracts.
Advise estimators on the labor and other-than-labor resources needed to perform the scope of work.
Advise schedulers on activity sequence, durations, and logic.
Advise management on risk-informed schedules used to set milestones and Performance Based Incentives (PBIs).
Provide input to technical writers for Basis of Estimates (BOEs), Basis of Schedule (BOS), and WBS data dictionaries.
Project Controls and Financial Analysis

Develop cost and schedule baselines, milestone schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), and spend-out plans that make the best use of equipment, manpower, funding, and facilities.
Apply advanced project control concepts, including developing advanced system applications, and guide team members on complex, multi-project integrated analysis and problem correction.
Take part in routine project cost reviews and schedule meetings, and develop and implement a change management system for engineering and construction scope.
Analyze cost and schedule variances against plan, and explain to management the causes and proposed mitigation plans.
Apply financial analysis techniques such as variance, statistical, and scenario analysis to work scopes and management decisions.
Develop and explain costing rates for the budget process, maintain rates in PeopleSoft, and analyze pool variances (Assigned Overhead and Service Pools).
Analyze business operations to identify funding limitations, productivity issues, and financial risks, and design integrated financial controls and cost-effective processes.
Define requirements and develop models for complex business systems, develop test plans and scenarios, integrate major enhancements into existing financial applications, and monitor system effectiveness.
Initiate and lead special studies, develop solutions for complex problems, and turn senior management's concepts into operating plans.
Prepare monthly financial reports, including analyses, forecasts, and spend plans.
Serve as a key link between the Client and the planning process.
Provide leadership, technical direction, and training to other Project Controls staff.
Apply working knowledge of CAS/FAR principles.