Lead Cost Engineer

Requisition ID: 274977 
- Relocation Authorized: None 
-Telework Type: Part-Time Telework 
-Work Location: Perth, WA 
 
Bechtel Mining and Metals is seeking an experienced Lead Cost Engineer with proven capabilities to join our project team in Perth.  
What We Offer:
There are many reasons why choosing to join Bechtel is one of the best career decisions you will ever make. In addition to working with talented, dedicated people and having the opportunity to play an integral role in stimulating and challenging local and international projects, Bechtel is committed to offering you the benefits and resources to live a healthy life. With a market aligned salary package and annual discretionary performance bonus scheme in place, employee wellbeing is also at the centre of our business - promoted through our strong health and safety focus and private health cover including access to a leading employee assistance program.
About the Role:
As Lead Cost Engineer, you will supervise cost estimating, analysis and control activities, supporting project organizational and administrative activities. You will be responsible for Cost Engineering, cost estimating, and cost analysis/control activities for large projects; major projects with significant non-routine requirements; or discipline/project/proposal estimating or staff planning activities which require a high degree of technical skill and experience. 
Your responsibilities will include:
-Provide comments and recommendations for Cost Engineering requirements relative to staffing and project control. Prepares detailed staffing plans for Cost Engineering activities.
-Review proposal provisions related to Cost Engineering and material control and develops supporting data for contract negotiations. Participate in establishing pricing structures to be applied to quantities for estimates. Obtains vendor information to update the cost data file. Applies material unit rates to quantities. Maintains cost data files.
-Participate in developing and presenting training classes on designated subjects and on-the- job training for specific processes and practices.
-Supervise the timely preparation of cost estimates. Prepares and analyses comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between the projects. Performs productivity analysis of Construction operations and verifies results.
-Review project work activities to ensure support of project milestones. Coordinate and establish scoping 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.
-Other duties as designated.
 
What You Bring:
-Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing Cost Engineering functions, including cost estimating, cost control, financial reporting systems, and cost analysis, in the field and the home office.
-Statistical knowledge in the areas of sampling distributions, probability, and hypothesis testing. Knowledge in supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
-Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present Cost Engineering and cost estimating products. 
-Advanced level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and startup work processes.
-Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.
 
Working Rights in Australia without employer sponsorship are required. 
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Why Choose Bechtel?
At Bechtel, we know that exceptional people deliver our customers’ projects—projects with a purpose that create a lasting positive legacy in the communities where we live and work. Just as we are committed to helping our customers achieve their visions, we are committed to offering the best people in the industry—people like you—with rewarding, challenging, and flexible long-term careers. Outstanding professionals are needed on projects that create jobs and grow economies; improve the resiliency of the world's infrastructure; connect communities to resources and opportunities; get us closer to net zero; tackle critical environmental challenges to protect people and the planet; and accelerate progress to make the world a cleaner, greener, safer place.
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Shaping tomorrow together
Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through five global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing & Technology. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.  
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Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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