Cost Engineer - Construction jobs in Salem, MA

Position Description: Acts as subject matter expert on Client, Consultant and Trade contractual terms and conditions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities*:

• Set up, negotiate, enforce and educate the various contracts on a project or in a given Business Unit or Region.
• Support Business development with contract review and negotiations as required.
• Support the Purchasing, Estimating and Operations Departments with special contract needs (ie. design consultants) or where there are exceptions to the standard agreements.
• Ensure the project(s) is following the contract and that we have proper documentation in place.
• Advise the Project Manager (PM), Senior Project Manager (SPM) or Project Executive (PX) of staff requirements to ensure contract compliance.
• All letters to be responded to within 24 hours, 48 hours maximum, or as required by the contract or specific strategy.
• Ensure documentation from other aspects of project (e.g. transmittals, Requests for Information (RFI), emails, etc.) are consistent with the contract. Train, advise and track consistency of this correspondence's compliance with contract requirements.
• Read and determine staff action required on all incoming letters. Establish a workflow for the key processes that will ensure compliance with the contract. The key is to be efficient with the response reducing the duplicity of handling correspondence (e.g. multiple people reading the same letter without a strategy or responsible person).
• Strategize position and response on all contract issues in conjunction with project leadership.
• Consult with in-house or appropriate legal counsel at project startup and periodically throughout the project duration.
• Assist in resolution of code interpretation discrepancies as required.
• Write and/or review all letters with factual assistance from others as needed.
• Develop appropriate tools to ensure all issues are tracked, addressed and serve their intended purpose or potential purposes in the future.
• Communicate to staff (staff meetings) the general direction issues are heading and the Company's position.
• Attend Senior Staff Meetings and update on progress and issues as necessary.
• Assess and recommend process changes to reduce waste and inefficiency.
• Educate, mentor and train others to advance the skills of the project team, Business Unit and/or Region.

Qualifications: At least four years of formal engineering or architectural training, at least ten years of building construction experience and/or a legal position focused on construction law required. Adequate knowledge of construction cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing, and engineering principles and techniques, as well as an extensive understanding of construction contract law. Also important is a strong knowledge of various construction methods and materials, their characteristics, installation procedures and tolerances. Candidate must demonstrate management know-how, leadership, and interpersonal skills. In addition, candidate must have an ability to communicate well in English both verbally and in writing.

Physical Demands: Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.

*May perform other duties as necessary or assigned.

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.