Project Cost Manager

Clayco

St. Louis (MO)

On-site

USD 75,000 - 95,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Annual Salary

Discretionary Annual Bonus

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Job summary

A leading construction firm in St. Louis, MO is seeking a Project Cost Manager to manage budget, costs, and forecasts for various building projects. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 5-10 years of Project Cost experience in the construction industry. Responsibilities include collaborating with project teams, overseeing cost engineering activities, and ensuring financial targets are met. This role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

5-10 years of Project Cost experience.
Minimum 4 years of experience in the construction industry.
Knowledge of project development stages, procurement, project controls, and construction execution practices.

Responsibilities

Review project documents to track change orders and baseline estimates.
Work closely with accounting for billings and change orders.
Ensure integrity in cost and forecast reporting.

Skills

Project Cost Management

Cost Engineering

Effective Problem-Solving

Results Orientation

Education

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or Construction Management

Tools

PMWeb

Excel

JD Edwards

Job description

Overview

Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $7.6 billion in revenue for 2024, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast-track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential-related building projects.

The Role We Want You For

As a Project Cost Manager, you will be assisting in the development and management of the project financial strategy. You will be working directly with the project management team to manage the project budget, costs, change orders, pricing requests, billings, and forecasts. You will be responsible for generating and maintaining reports that provide information to different groups, identifying variances and risks, and maintaining quality control processes to improve project cost procedures and ensuring conformity with management's strategy.

The Specifics of the Role

Works with all project disciplines to ensure understanding of total project cost budget allowances and targets.
Review project documents and specifications to accurately identify, develop and track requests for change orders (owner and subcontractor related), baseline estimates, potential risk exposures while communicating potential impacts to the financial targets, schedule, and overall project management process.
Works closely with the accounting department to ensure the correct integration of all information needed to ensure accuracy in billings, payment applications, change orders, direct cost, labor cost, etc.
Works closely with the project management team, executive management personnel, subcontractors, as well as occasional contact with clients.
Responsible for cost engineering, cost estimation, cost analysis, and control activities for projects with significant non-routine requirements or for proposal estimating activities which require a moderate degree of technical skill and experience.
Ensuring quality, accuracy, consistency, spend profile, performing change management, and transparency in all cost management deliverables.
Take ownership of the cost control function and ensure integrity of the cost and forecast reporting.

Requirements

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or Construction Management, or related degree.
5-10 years of Project Cost experience.
Minimum 4 years of experience in the construction industry.
Knowledge of project development stages, procurement, project controls, and construction execution practices is required.
Working knowledge of applicable computer software such as PMWeb or similar project portfolio management software, DataServ, Excel, JD Edwards, or related software programs.
Effective problem-solving skills.
Results oriented and deliver on customer commitments.

Some Things You Should Know

To serve our Clients in our St. Louis, MO office – some travel will be required
No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
The pace is fast!

Why Clayco?

Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, Phoenix Business Journal.
ENR – Top Midwest Contractors (#1), Top Design Build Contractors (#4), Top 400 Contractors (#23), ENR – Top Green Builders (#5).

Compensation and Benefits

Competitive Annual Salary: Based on qualifications, skills, training, experience, and location.
Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company performance and individual contribution.
Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!

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