Cost Manager

Job Description

The Cost Manager provides cost management services including invoice validation, cost forecasting and reporting, change management, close out administration, procurement management, earned value and value engineering. The Cost Manager should have the ability to identify opportunities within a project that will add value and help successfully accomplish the client’s desired project outcome.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and issue periodic cost reports to senior technical staff
• Prepare construction related cost estimates, cost plans, and cost strategies.
• Review the cash flow prepared by junior technical staff and issues to senior technical staff
• Review all change orders in accordance with the client’s approval process
• Review all invoices for the project, ensuing that junior technical staff codes the invoices where applicable and forward them to the client’s accounts payable department
• With minimal supervision, provide procurement services for the client, where applicable, for construction and engineering services, including preparing RFP and bid analysis
• Where applicable, overview and report to the client on contractor buyout of subcontract bid packages
• Attend the bi-weekly cost meetings to review procurement status and change order status with the contractors and engineering teams
• Provide cost information on value engineering analysis
• Carry out an earned value analysis of the project on a periodic basis
• Review the contractors close out administration and ensure that they meet their contractual requirements

Qualifications