Construction Cost Analyst

Cost Analyst (Construction Consultancy)

As a Cost Analyst at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Translate detailed technical data into impactful information for partners and clients
• Create, maintain and present compelling reports
• Review data quality across the schedule each week, including cost and cash flow data related to client's construction program
• Create analytic tools to support our client business support
• Effectively consolidate data into reports to reflect a clear picture of project status and forecast
• Review existing data management processes to identify areas for improvement, and participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives
• Provide data validation support to the client's internal programmers and act as point of contact for the automation and dashboard development initiatives
• Use Data Visualization software to report on program deliverables
• Contribute to account strategic initiatives including process reviews, value stream mapping, trend analysis and visualization support (presentations and Tableau)
• Generate monthly construction program reports, including data consolidation and analysis, trend reporting and automation initiatives
• Partner with site teams to complete root-cause analysis of variances and trends across the client's global program

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have an understanding of construction project lifecycles and experience working with project controls teams or cost consultants is an advantage
• Are able to translate construction related raw data (cost, schedule, procurement, risk) into clear dashboards and insights
• Have experience building Power BI dashboards specifically for operational or project-based reporting
• Have experience with construction management software (Primavera P6, MS Project, Procore, Aconex, CostX, etc.)
• Are able to work in a fast paced global consultancy or client facing environment
• Enjoy understanding trends and seeking anomalies in data
• Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing
• Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines
• Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun
• This position is hybrid from Linesight's Seattle office location

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required

The salary range for this role is between $80,000 and $110,000 but actual salary offered is dependent on experience, skill set and education.

About Us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we're not like the others. We're different. Unique. It's our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world's most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team! Diversity, inclusion and accessibilityLinesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!