POTENTIAL FUTURE OPPORTUNITY - LENAX is always accepting applications from qualified applicants for upcoming openings. By completing the application process, your qualifications will be evaluated for positions as they become available, and you will be contacted if being considered for a new opportunity Please be aware, THIS IS A LOS ANGELES BASED POSITION (LENAX does not pay for relocation or travel expenses for interviews).

ABOUT LENAX CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC.

Since its inception in 1993, Lenax Construction Services, Inc. (LENAX) has provided quality construction services and project controls to a diverse range of engineering, design, and construction firms. LENAX services a broad range of markets, including airports, transportation, industrial, correctional, universities, and marine. LENAX is a goal-oriented and customer-driven independent consulting business, aimed at adding value and strength to our clients’ program teams by providing expertise in current pricing and economic trends, while utilizing the most up to date means and methods in the construction and design industries.
LENAX is looking for a Senior Cost Engineer. The successful candidate will have proven cost engineering experience with complex, multi-phase, multi-million-dollar construction and/or renovation projects. The general job duties include: Preparing detailed computer-generated cost reports, charts and diagrams; Providing analysis and review of cost/budget expenditures, and maintaining cost control reports; promptly reporting anticipated cost overages or other unsatisfactory cost elements; liaisons with Data Processing in developing support for network calculations, printouts and cost reports, and other cost related services.

PROGRAM-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS / NOTES

• May assume other duties as required/needed.
• May be required to work past regular work shift
• May be required to work various shifts as needed.
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Essential Job Duties - The Senior Cost Engineer’s duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion-dollar airport capital improvement program.
• Review and analyze sub-contractor invoices, ensuring expenditures are accurately incurred against appropriate Schedule of Values accounts
• Prepare job costing reports to allocate these expenditures against the appropriate WBS numbers. Ensures that both commitments and expenditures follow the same allocation methodology.
• 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. Develop creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
• Review task orders for contractors, sub-consultants, and City of Los Angeles Interdepartmental Orders to ensure necessary budget and/or contract capacity exists, and ensure these actual commitments are accurately entered/tracked into the owner/client’s system of record.
• 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 the owner/client’s 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 the owner/client’s reporting needs.
• Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers

Your duties and accomplishments.

• Note: If multiple projects, you may wish to mention notable ones—5 or so, as applicabl