Senior Cost Consultant – Iconic Rail Project Leader

NPAworldwide; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 220.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

NPAworldwide client, a leading global consultancy, seeks a Senior Cost Consultant for the Hudson Tunnel Project in New York to deliver comprehensive cost estimates and budget management for a landmark infrastructure program.

The role involves leading cost planning, benchmarking, and reporting, collaborating across engineering, procurement, and project leadership to drive decision-making and value. Strong rail/transit project experience is preferred.

Formación

• Significant experience in cost estimating, cost management, quantity surveying, cost engineering, commercial management, or project controls on major capital projects.
• Strong background in developing, reviewing, and reconciling complex construction estimates through successive stages of project development.
• Demonstrated understanding of construction scope, quantities, rates, productivity, indirect costs, escalation, contingency, risk, and market pricing.
• Experience developing or managing integrated capital budgets and Total Project Cost estimates.
• Strong knowledge of estimating methodologies, Basis of Estimate development, cost benchmarking, estimate reconciliation, change management, and cost forecasting.
• Ability to translate detailed estimating information into clear advice for senior management and client decisionmakers.
• Major transportation, rail, transit, tunneling, heavy civil, or similarly complex infrastructure experience strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with AACE International estimating and cost-engineering practices is desirable.
• Relevant professional qualifications such as CCP, CEP, MRICS, PQS, CEC/ECC, PMP, or equivalent is advantageous.

Responsabilidades

• Develop, assemble, and maintain comprehensive capital budgets and Total Project Cost estimates for major infrastructure programs.
• Develop and review conceptual, ROM, design-stage, pre-tender, and progressively mature cost estimates.
• Review and challenge quantities, unit rates, productivity assumptions, indirect costs, escalation, contingency, allowances, risk, and other estimate components.
• Consolidate estimates from multiple projects, contracts, designers, consultants, and delivery teams into an integrated program-level capital budget.
• Lead estimate reconciliation, clearly identifying movements associated with scope development, design maturity, quantities, pricing, escalation, risk, procurement strategy, and market conditions.
• Develop and maintain cost benchmarks using historical project data, comparable programs, productivity information, market intelligence, and contractor/supplier pricing.
• Perform comparative cost and option analyses to support decisions regarding scope, design, packaging, procurement, phasing, and delivery strategy.
• Support development and review of Basis of Estimate documentation, cost breakdown structures, assumptions, exclusions, allowances, and estimate methodologies.
• Evaluate the cost implications of design development, scope changes, procurement results, contract changes, and emerging project conditions.
• Maintain traceability between approved budgets, current estimates, commitments, changes, contingency, and forecast outturn cost.
• Prepare clear executive-level cost reports, reconciliations, variance analyses, trends, and decision-support materials.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, project controls, commercial, procurement, risk, schedule, finance, and project leadership teams.

Conocimientos

Cost estimating

Budgeting

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Project controls

Change management

Stakeholder communication

Risk assessment

Estimating methodologies

Basis of Estimate development

Descripción del empleo

NPAworldwide client, a leading global consultancy, seeks a Senior Cost Consultant for the Hudson Tunnel Project in New York to deliver comprehensive cost estimates and budget management for a landmark infrastructure program.

The role involves leading cost planning, benchmarking, and reporting, collaborating across engineering, procurement, and project leadership to drive decision-making and value. Strong rail/transit project experience is preferred.