Cost Engineer (Data Center Construction)
AI Summary
A Cost Engineer at Linesight monitors project progress, prepares detailed estimates and cost reports, manages change logs, and supports financial close-out for data center construction projects.
About this role
Overview
As a Cost Engineer 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:
- Attend key meetings and design reviews to monitor progress, actively collaborate on solving problems and communicate impacts to partners
- Participate in site walks with GC, Cost Manager and client PM, assessing progress and identifying potential cost impacts
- Effectively consolidate data to prepare detailed estimates, and ad-hoc cost reports and analyses
- Maintain the project change management logs, with detail focus and accuracy
- Partner with the extended Cost Management team to complete complex client tasks
- Monitor the financial close-out on all projects including settlement of all vendors
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have a degree or comparable experience in a project management or construction discipline
- Are chartered or are on the path to complete it. We can help.
- Have experience in pre- and post-contract cost management on varied projects
- 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 onsite at the Data Center Campus
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
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 accessibility
Linesight 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!
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