Onsite Electrical Cost Engineer – Semicon Fab

World Wide Professional Solutions; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Company-Matched Retirement Plan

Paid Holidays and Time Off

Job summary

World Wide Professional Solutions in Peoria, AZ is seeking a Cost Engineer - Electrical to join our owner’s representative team supporting a major semiconductor construction project. You will provide independent cost oversight for electrical packages, with expertise in cost engineering, forecasting, and earned value management.

This onsite role requires strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills to manage contractor pricing, change orders, and procurement, ensuring budget

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 to 7 years of related experience in cost engineering, estimating, quantity surveying, project controls, procurement, or commercial management for electrical construction.
• Experience supporting electrical construction packages on semiconductor, microelectronics, advanced manufacturing, data center, pharmaceutical, cleanroom, mission critical, or complex industrial projects.
• Working knowledge of electrical construction means and methods, estimating practices, labor productivity, material takeoffs, equipment procurement, and subcontract administration.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical one-line diagrams, construction drawings, specifications, equipment schedules, cable schedules, and contractor scope documents.
• Experience reviewing estimates, bids, schedules of values, payment applications, change orders, labor reports, installed quantities, and forecast data.
• Ability to develop and apply earned value management, cost trending, variance analysis, forecasting, and contingency management techniques.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the owner’s representative cost engineer for assigned electrical construction packages and provide independent validation of contractor estimates, commitments, forecasts, progress, and final costs.
• Develop and maintain accurate monthly cost reports that identify variances in commitments, value of work completed, actual costs, accruals, approved changes, pending changes, and forecast at completion against the approved budget.
• Reconcile project controls data with the owner’s fiscal and financial control systems, including purchase orders, work orders, commitments, accruals, invoices, and change orders.
• Analyze project funding requirements through estimates, cost forecasts, trend analysis, cash flow projections, and accrual of actual costs.
• Maintain realistic cost forecasts and clearly communicate emerging risks, scope growth, productivity concerns, procurement exposure, and potential overruns.
• Review contractor pricing for temporary power, permanent power, early energization, phased turnover, testing, inspection, startup, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and final acceptance.
• Review, negotiate, and document change orders involving the owner, general contractor, electrical contractors, vendors, and equipment suppliers.
• Validate contractor payment applications by comparing billed progress with installed quantities, field status, approved schedule of values, stored materials, and contract requirements.

Skills

Cost engineering

Estimating

Quantity surveying

Earned value mgmt

Bid evaluation

Change management

Subcontract admin

Payment validation

Procurement

Project controls

Electrical construction

One-line diagrams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or related

Tools

EcoSys

SAP

Oracle

Prolog

GSAP

Power BI

Job description

World Wide Professional Solutions in Peoria, AZ is seeking a Cost Engineer - Electrical to join our owner’s representative team supporting a major semiconductor construction project. You will provide independent cost oversight for electrical packages, with expertise in cost engineering, forecasting, and earned value management.

This onsite role requires strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills to manage contractor pricing, change orders, and procurement, ensuring budget