Full-Time

Cost Engineer 3 – Senior Cost Engineer

Posted on 9/23/2025

O2EPCM

O2EPCM

Compensation Overview

$151k - $165k/yr

No H1B Sponsorship

Los Angeles, CA, USA

In Person

This is NOT a work from home position. The job requires presence in the office or on the project site at LAX.

Category
Accounting (1)
Required Skills
Prolog
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 10 years or more of cost engineering experience directly related to construction projects, preferably aviation projects
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or other related field required
  • Required cost engineer certification i.e. CCE, CCP
  • Certifications may include PMP, PE, and/or any other relevant Professional Licensure or Certification.
Responsibilities
  • Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion-dollar Capital Improvement Program at Los Angeles World Airports
  • Review and analyze sub-contractor invoices, ensuring expenditures are accurately incurred against appropriate Schedule of Values accounts
  • Prepares job costing reports to allocate these expenditures against the appropriate WBS numbers
  • Perform cost-to-complete analysis for all cost elements within a project taking into consideration staffing plans, contract commitments, and expenditures to date, change orders and trends
  • Attend project meetings to provide Project Management with current financial information and trend log regarding potential impacts to project budget or forecast
  • Provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required
  • Review task orders for contractors, sub-consultants, and City of Los Angeles Interdepartmental Orders to ensure necessary budget and/or contract capacity exists
  • Analyze bid award values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion
  • Analyze change order values against current contingency budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion
  • Analyze task order values against current allowance budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion
  • Prolog - Update contract commitments, reconcile and analyze actual expenditures, perform budget transfers, monitor trend status and maintain continuity of WBS structure
  • Coordinate with LAWA Governance Body to ensure changes to budgets are approved via the Reconciliate Process or Capital Improvement Program Change process
  • Perform Project closeout resourcefully to ensure Prolog Data is complete for LAWA’s reporting needs
  • Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Progressive GMPs, Design-Build and DBFOM delivery methods is desirable
  • Experience managing a team of cost engineers
  • Demonstrated experience managing and reporting the cost components of large-scale, complex projects; including developing and managing a progress reporting methodology for a complicated design effort
  • Demonstrated ability to understand technical and complicated construction programs and the ability to communicate progress to both technical- and management-level personnel

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