Requisition ID: 275464 

•  Relocation Authorized: National – Family 
• Telework Type: Part-Time Telework 
• Work Location: Reston, VA 

Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world’s infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on TerraPower’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. TerraPower, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium. The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier, and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining, or the wind is not blowing. With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power.

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, PacifiCorp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades.

We invite you to join our team for this very interesting opportunity!

Position Summary:

The Lead Cost Engineer will lead cost estimating, analysis, control and reporting activities including:

• Budget and forecast development, maintenance, monitoring, impact identification, and recovery planning.
• Cost control analysis and financial reporting including cost performance metrics.
• Support studies, forecasts and problem-solving exercises as required.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares and presents financial reporting information to management.
• Provides comments and recommendations for cost engineering requirements relative to staffing and project control.
• Prepares detailed staffing plans for cost engineering activities.
• Reviews proposal provisions related to cost engineering and material control and develops supporting data for contract negotiations. Participates in establishing pricing structures to be applied to quantities for estimates.
• Obtains vendor information to update the cost data file.
• Applies material unit rates to quantities. Maintains cost data files.
• Interfaces with designated management and client counterparts for specific cost presentations.
• Participates in developing and presenting training classes on designated subjects and on-the-job training for specific processes and practices.
• Conducts personnel performance reviews when delegated. Interviews candidates and makes recommendations for employment decisions.
• Supervises the timely preparation of cost estimates. Prepares and analyzes comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between the projects.
• Performs productivity analysis of construction operations and verifies results.
• Reviews project work activities to ensure support of project milestones.
• Coordinates and establishes scoping requirements for the overall cost estimate by discipline or other specialties, and coordinates the timely, systematic, and complete acquisition of scope definition and related data.
• Coordinates pricing structure or criteria to be used by each discipline or specialty to meet the objectives of the cost estimate.
• Establishes format and content of summaries and reconciliations, including segregation of cost according to level of confidence and identification of areas of risk. 
• Prepares or reviews distributable and/or contractors’ indirect cost estimates, developing basis for temporary facilities, miscellaneous construction services, construction tools and equipment, nonmanual manpower, startup services, payroll taxes and insurance, support facilities and operation, and other field office costs.
• Researches and develops or reviews tax estimates, including federal, state and local tax issues.
• Participates in discussions with vendors.
• Plans, organizes and supervises project cost budgets.
• Defines project needs for cost control in accordance with established Bechtel and client contractual requirements, objectives, and procedures.
• Supervises the timely performance of cost control activities.
• Reviews and critiques design and specifications for cost-effectiveness and suggests alternatives when appropriate.
• Prepares cost trend estimates in support of project cost trend programs.
• Supervises cost recording, monitoring, and reporting practices for compliance with applicable standards accuracy and consistency.
• Supervises investigating requirements for cost control data for a specific discipline or other specialty applications.
• Identifies needs for cost analysis support for the project and recommends development or modification of cost engineering data standards. Supervises the performance of cost analysis activities within the project.
• Coordinates information input into specific studies. Responsible for integration of activities and total work scope identification.
• Evaluates study results and recommends conclusions for project team consideration and discussion.
• Develops unit job hour and pricing data for a specific discipline or other specialty, including estimating parameters, factors indices, productivity and craft distribution reference data, etc., based on analysis of Bechtel and industry experience.
• Performs data analysis, identifies problems, and makes recommendations.
• Creates and implements measurement systems for given processes, analyzes performance metric results, and identifies improvements.
• Ability to use statistical tools to analyze metrics (e.g., regression, analysis of variance, correlation), and the ability to analyze measurement systems to identify bias, repeatability, and stability issues.

Qualfications and Skills:

Basic Qualifications:

• Level 1- Must possess at least a bachelors’ (BS/BA) degree from an accredited university and at least 6 years of professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, a high school diploma or equivalent and at least 12 years of professional experience.
• Level 2- Must possess at least a bachelors’ (BS/BA) degree from an accredited university and at least 13 years of professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, a high school diploma or equivalent and at least 19 years of professional experience.
• Possess the legal right to work and remain in the United States without sponsorship.
• Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check including verification of employment, education and travel.
• Must be able to obtain a site security badge for access to the work site.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing cost engineering functions, including cost estimating, cost control, financial reporting systems, and cost analysis.
• Knowledge in supervision, personnel administration, and training of technical and non-technical personnel.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, direct, perform, review, and present cost engineering and cost estimating products. This includes preparation of financial reporting products independently with minimal supervision using a high level of professional judgment and knowledge related to technical cost engineering skills and engineering design and construction practices.
• Skilled in oral and written communication.
• Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialized instruction or practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior nuclear power plant development, permitting, engineering, procurement and construction experience.
• Knowledge of current industry and technical developments.
• Demonstrated ability to work with people of varied backgrounds and objectives.

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