Project Engineer-Cost and Schedule

Redpath And Company, Ltd. - Salt Lake City, UT

Full-time

Salt Lake City, UT

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Project Engineer-Cost and Schedule at Redpath USA Corporation is responsible for the planning and performance monitoring of assigned projects, specifically for the Kennecott Copper project in Salt Lake City. This role involves guiding operational managers through the implementation of project controls processes and procedures, tracking performance metrics, and ensuring that business objectives are met by developing and maintaining project baselines and execution plans.

Responsibilities

• Compile and define the controls baselines for projects, including the development of project execution plans and project controls procedures.
• Administrative set up of new projects, including timekeeping, reporting, chart of accounts and document management.
• Ensure that the Management of Change process is being maintained and integrated with Redpath's policies, procedures, contracts and financial system.
• Participate in compiling, updating and tracking project costs and schedules using InEight [HD], Primavera and/or MS Projects, SharePoint and JD Edwards.
• Implement proper controls to monitor project budget performance, re-allocation of costs and to ensure that monthly costs, cash and resource requirements are forecasted to project completion.
• Implement and maintain earned value management on assigned projects.
• Report on project key performance indicators, daily, weekly and monthly.
• Monitor trends to identify issues potentially impacting on policies, procedures, schedule, costs, project scope, risks and/or safety related issues.
• Prepare and finalize the close-out reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in a related scientific, business or engineering field.
• 5+ years of field and/or office based project accounting, estimating or controls experience related to underground construction projects or operational mining environment.
• Knowledge of project management, construction contracts, reporting and data manipulation.
• Comprehensive computer skills including Microsoft Office, scheduling Software (MS Projects or Primavera) and measurement and estimating software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to facilitate team commitment.

Nice-to-haves

• Preferred concentration in business or engineering in quantity surveying, cost estimating or mining.
• Additional qualifications and/or certification(s) in project management, contract administration and key performance indicator measurement.

Benefits

• Competitive and comprehensive wages and benefits.