ACZENTA Cost engineer Invia

A Leading construction company is seeking an experienced Cost Engineer for a railway track and tunneling project.

Purpose of the position

Ensure the coordination the project controls of the project activities.

Duties and responsibilities

• preparing monthly analysis and reports on expenditures, work progress, commitments, budget performance, and schedule performance for all actions on site
• defining the WBS for the project and verified the correct allocation of orders, invoices, and costs to be correct WBS
• monitor, with the support of the quantity surveyors, the correctness of the invoices received for supplies and subcontracts
• developing and maintaining the database for all costs based on past performance, cost data, and indices of material costs to be used in the preparation of cost estimates and budgets and performance analysis
• tracking actual costs of construction activities and compare those to the budgeted costs for each work section, as well as using data to forecast cost to completion
• comparing actual and budgeted percentage completion to date
• defining, implementing, and updating the project's report in compliance with both client and corporate standards
• highlighting to the Project Director/Manager and the Project Control team all the criticalities and deviations in production or profitability and identifying where there are any differences arisen throughout the project, developing the related economic and temporal forecast to allow the Project Director/Manager to formulate strategies to recover or improve the result
• managing the cost control (and accounting) related software, ensuring his setting, and updating the project data and related output
• supporting the Project Control Director in preparing the initial project budget, further revisions, and timely distribution in quarters and months
• providing to Project Directors/Manager with accounting printouts referred to the job orders and the cost centers
• taking care of the analytical accounting entries needed for processing the monthly statements (production, invoices to be received, domestic freights, standard costs, etc.)
• preparing monthly, detailed statements of the costs for each expense center of the project

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience as cost controller in the construction of infrastructure projects such as railway track and tunneling.
• bachelor's degree in civil, management, or construction engineering/architecture
• Ensure cost performance across all stages of the construction project
• Develop the cost forecast, cost report, spend / commitment profile
• Ensure a comprehensive cost control, man-hour control, change control and resource management data across one or more projects to support the project management and client teams.
• knowledge of accounting processes
• basic technical knowledge concerning the worksite production processes to ensure the data quality referred to costs and production development
• excellent knowledge, written and spoken, of French; knowledge also of English is most welcome
• ability to organize the activities in the framework of the process managed and in relation to the other corporate processes, identifying and removing the inefficiencies
• experience within multicultural and international environments working for General contractor companies in private and public civil construction projects