Cost Engineer

Who Is Jlm Strategic Talent Partners & What Is Our Role

We partner with national and international prime contractors to provide them with qualified talent they can trust. We accomplish this by sourcing and vetting high-level career-seeking candidates in the industry and match them with our partners' current open roles. Our objective is to help our general contractor partners build out project teams for high-level infrastructure projects across the US. We aspire to partner with candidates who are eager to learn, grow, and progress in their career path while deepening their knowledge in their given field. We deeply value our partnerships and place great emphasis on maintaining strong relationships and long-term hires. This is reflective in our competitive offerings to our hires including:

• Ongoing HR support
• Competitive benefits packages including health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Our very own JLM Rewards incentive program

The Ideal Candidate

• The ideal candidate has a proven track record of performing construction quality control audits, providing cost control recovery plans, maintaining cost systems, and providing monthly cost reports.
• They thrive in a fast-paced and a team-oriented environment.
• They get excited about construction projects as well as completing assignments on time.
• An individual who will do well in this position is self-oriented, organized, a great communicator, and approachable.
• Comfortable working within a team environment at the project site in Los Angeles.

Key Responsibilities/Skills

• Create/open new cost codes within the existing work breakdown and project coding structures for control and integrity of work defined by the contract.
• Recommend solutions or recovery plans to schedule or cost impact or delays.
• Maintain the cost system and provide required reports.
• Analyze variances in cost and schedule performance against the plan, and communicate the reasons for the issuance of variance and proposed mitigation plans to Project Management.
• Manage the change management process.
• Prepare reports from HCSS for and facilitate weekly cost review meetings with construction team.
• Facilitate preparation of the monthly report for the Owner.
• Provide meaningful, accurate historical data.
• Participate in internal and external audits.
• Analyze and make independent recommendations regarding solutions to problems with varying complexity in accordance with organization and/or project objectives and guidelines.
• Organize and prioritize a variety of projects and multiple tasks in an effective and timely manner, set priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Plan and organize own work assignments, as well as carry out tasks from management staff.

Perks Of Joining Jlm

We offer a competitive compensation package as well as benefits including health insurance, vision, dental, life, and paid time off! Compensation: $38.00 - $46.00 per hour JLM is a DBE-accredited agency specializing in finding world-class talent and managing infrastructure project staffing needs. As the industry leader in staffing for architecture, engineering, and construction projects, JLM has 18,500+ pre-vetted, highly-skilled, and available people ready to power your project within 7 days.