Cost & Planning Engineer at Workforce Group

Workforce Group - Our client is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cost & Planning Engineer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Our client is seeking a highly skilled cost and planning engineer whose role would be primarily to develop and maintain a cost control reporting system to detail actual and forecast costs on the projects/improvement initiatives based on the inputs from team members.
• The duties of this role would include but not be limited to, maintaining cost control procedures, including change order/variation order registers, and coordinate project procedures, methods, and norms.

Accountabilities

• Communicate cost progress, highlight concerns and issues to team members
• Review suppliers and construction contractor’s bids during tender assessment and provide relevant tender clarification information to enable commitments to be made for current and future projects.
• Integrate suppliers and construction contractor’s control system and cost schedule dependencies and feed into the overall budget and monitor their progress regularly.
• Prepare and maintain resource plans and budget, cost forecasting/phasing and Earned Value for projects.
• Establish process to collect actual cost performance, condition and normalize data for future use, develop metrics and benchmarking information.
• Establish process to store Cost, Estimate files accessible.
• Analyze progress and performance against budget Work Program, identify areas of cost overruns requiring corrective action, forecast completions and provide accurate and timely projects cost reports.
• Coordinate the preparation of the cost report as required.
• Assists in developing risk registers, stakeholder mapping.
• Drive Cost benchmarking against historical performance, industry
  norms and established KPIs.
• Establish Performance Measurement Baseline PMB cost, contract baseline and carry out contingency drawdown analysis of ongoing projects and provide management report analysis.
• Develop benchmarking packages at appropriate level to check estimate results from top down versus both internal and external comparable data.
• Provides input to Business Plan and annual budgets development
• Perform uncertainty analysis and sensitivities on cost estimates.
• Manage reviews and audits of cost estimates.

Requirements

• Relevant Degree and/or Certification as a Cost Estimator.
• 8 years experience in a lead cost estimating role both the front end and definition or execution phases of an opportunity or project.
• Must have been responsible for the establishment, maintenance, and delivery of the cost estimating activity for a project.
• Excellent analytical, oral, and written communication skills.
• Fully versed with Cost Estimating Tools.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.