About Our Client
Our client is a globally established engineering, construction, and project management organisation with a strong reputation for excellence and innovative project delivery, delivering major projects worldwide.
About the Opportunity This role sits within a project team based in Perth, WA, working closely with the end client on a major project.

The Role
In this role, you’ll support the implementation of project-specific cost control and reporting procedures, along with estimating, analysis, and control activities for projects with significant non-routine requirements. You’ll prepare cost studies and cost trends, and help develop and implement project cost control requirements — bringing innovative solutions to cost engineering challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Detect, record, monitor, and report trends and changes to the project management team
• Forecast cost and schedule impacts on budget arising from trends, and recommend mitigation plans
• Apply established trend processes and subcontract/contract change requirements
• Support analysis of specially assigned change initiatives or work-planning matters requiring detailed change assessment and response planning
• Support the overall trend program schedule, including initiating trend focus meetings across disciplines
• Support timely preparation of cost estimates, including scope, quantity, and cost comparisons between projects
• Perform and verify productivity analysis of construction operations, establishing the productivity basis used in estimates in consultation with Construction
• Prepare or supervise cost studies using historical data, statistical analysis, and cost/quantity comparisons, developing new techniques as required
• Develop trend evaluations, ensuring consistency with previous reports, and issue reports required by management and project procedures
• Maintain a clear understanding of project budget and scope, monitor development, flag deviations from budget, and prepare/evaluate trends
• Support development of unit job-hour and pricing data for a specific discipline, including data analysis, problem identification, and recommendations

About You

• Bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) plus 8-10 years’ relevant experience, or 12-14 years’ relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Knowledge of estimating methods, processes, and procedures
• Experience in quantity takeoffs, statistical analysis, and cost/price analysis
• Skilled in applying technical discipline processes, engineering drawings, quantity determinations, and mathematical/financial reporting
• Thorough understanding of cost indices and escalation projection sources
• Understanding of, and ability to contribute to, risk and contingency assessments
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presenting to the project management team
• Intermediate Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, complex graphs)
• Familiarity with internal/proprietary estimating software, and converting estimate details into package budgets

How to Apply

For a confidential discussion or to submit your application, contact:

Darryl Mills | Mobile: 0448 941 832 | Email: darryl@millsrecruitment.com