Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Cost Section Manager to join our team! In this role you will get to develop, manage, and/or executes all phases of the project controls effort (planning/scheduling and cost analysis). You will utilize widely diversified knowledge of project controls activities, and draws upon extensive experience and exposure to various types of projects and clients

What You'll Be Doing:

• Interface / work with Commercial Team and other Departments to analyze, evaluate, and forecast project costs, as well as performance against an established schedule with critical milestones.

• Manage / report on multiple work packages the expenditure to date / to completion / versus planned expenditure etc

• Manage / report on multiple work packages expenditure compared to Tender Award

• Assist in Overall Development cost reports

• Provides guidance, direction, and specialized assistance to project for the resolution of difficult and complex project cost problems. Interfaces with clients, attends regular meetings, and provides and prepare reports. Assist in assessment the impact(s) of design/construction changes and schedule slippages.

• Oversees the development and maintenance of an established system to show the hierarchy of costs; keeps project and company management fully informed.

• Assigns and supervises multiple work packages work activities (as applicable)

• Recommends and assist in the customization of project control systems to meet specific project requirements.

• Create ad-hoc reports for management on a recurring or one-of-a-kind basis.

• Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience of directing cost engineering, cost estimating, control and analysis, planning and scheduling, schedule development, control, and analysis. Experience and demonstrated skill in establishing criteria and system set-up for all project controls activities.

• Bachelor's Degree in Quantity surveying or Construction Management or related field (or equivalent work experience) and typically 10+ years of related experience, as well as some experience in a supervisory capacity and in financial reporting.

• Discussing and building upon ideas with co-workers in a diverse and supportive environment like ours often leads to solutions that are bigger and better than you’d find working solo. You’ll make a great manager here if you like lead people to think, listen well, and share ideas and opinions.

• Our welcoming, inclusive, and respectful environment empowers all employees to shape their futures — and ours — through recognition and advancement.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Ability to manage an estimating team that would be required to perform difficult and complex estimating task deliverables typical to the engineering and construction industry projects and programs is required.

• In addition, excellent written and verbal communication skills, a thorough knowledge of company and project procedures and practices, and a familiarity with typical project controls software such as Primavera scheduling software, Estimate/Schedule Transfer tools, Contract Manager, and DMCS (Document and Materials Control System) is required.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/None

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran.

About Us

Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider focused on the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. With nearly 75 years of experience, Parsons is uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services to federal, regional, and local government agencies, as well as to private industrial customers worldwide.

Parsons is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LGBTQ+.

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