Cost Manager

Currie & Brown; Berwick (Columbia County); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/remote work flexibility

Job summary

Currie & Brown is seeking a Cost Manager for a Berwick, PA project. You will support project leaders in delivering high-quality service, sharing knowledge, and reinforcing innovation across the firm.

The role offers hybrid/remote flexibility and involves interfacing with estimating, procurement, scheduling, and finance teams. Responsibilities include cost reporting, forecasting, and cost control, with collaboration across stakeholders to ensure project success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of estimating and cost control applications.
• Ability to visualize and quantify project requirements.
• Advanced pricing analysis, modeling, and benchmarking skills.
• Excellent time management, prioritization, and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Undertake construction project cost reporting and analysis with interfaces to estimating, procurement, scheduling, and finance.
• Assist and implement cost control, schedule, and progress reporting.
• Monitor cost performance to explain variances from budget.
• Produce accurate cost forecasts at detailed and summary levels.
• Identify early adverse cost trends and recommend corrective actions.
• Forecast final project cost based on actuals vs. budget.
• Support client accounting, invoicing, and PO management.
• Assist with project cost estimates from concept through development stages.
• Maintain and develop cost/estimating tools, methods, and databases.
• Participate in industry benchmarking of project metrics.

Skills

Time management

Communication

Negotiation

Self-management

Collaboration

Quantification

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management / Quantity Surveying

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Estimating software

Cost control software

Job description

Currie & Brown is currently looking for a cost manager for one of our projects in Berwick, PA. The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation, and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

This role offers hybrid/remote work flexibility

Responsibilities for a successful candidate:

• Undertaking construction project cost reporting and analysis, including significant interface with estimating, procurement, scheduling, document control and finance/accounting when appropriate
• Assisting and implementing cost control, schedule and progress control reporting
• Monitoring cost performance to discover and understand variances from the budget
• Producing accurate/unbiased cost forecasts at a detailed and summary level
• Identifying and ensuring early warning of adverse cost trends so that corrective actions can be taken
• Forecasting the final cost of the project based on the analysis of the actual incurred cost against the agreed budget
• Supporting client account, monthly invoicing, and purchase order management
• Assisting with project cost estimates from conceptual through various stages of project development using experience, historical data, and parametric ratios
• Establishing new and maintaining existing cost and estimating tools, methods and databases used to produce project estimates
• Participating in industry benchmarking of project metrics

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or equivalent
• Good understanding of mechanical, electrical, process piping / plumbing equipment.
• Ability to conceptually visualize and quantify project requirements
• Knowledge of estimating and cost control applications
• Demonstrate advanced industry knowledge and facilitation skills in pricing analysis, modeling, purchase price cost analysis and identifying competitive benchmarks
• Exceptional time management, prioritization, and negotiation skills. Candidate will be self-managing and require minimum supervision
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Strong computer skills and familiarity with Microsoft office suite programs

Currie & Brown is one of the world’s leading physical assets management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients in respect of the management and utilisation of their physical assets, and is differentiated by innovation, expertise and experience.

With principal offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai, we operate throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, India and the Middle East.