As a Construction Cost Engineer, You`ll play a critical role in ensuring that construction projects are planned, budgeted, and executed with financial accuracy and efficiency. You`ll combine technical engineering knowledge with strong financial and analytical skills to forecast, monitor, and control project costs throughout the project lifecycle.

Hourly Pay: $45-$60 per hour based on experience. 

What You'll Do:

• Develop detailed cost estimates during conceptual, preliminary, and final design phases.
• Analyze drawings, specifications, and project requirements to prepare accurate quantity takeoffs.
• Evaluate labor, material, equipment, and subcontractor costs using industry benchmarks and historical data.
• Establish and maintain project budgets, cash flow forecasts, and cost control systems.
• Track actual costs against budgeted values and identify variances.
• Provide early warnings on potential cost overruns and recommend corrective actions.

What You'll Need:

• High school diploma or equivalent required. Associate's degree or higher preferred.
• 5+ years of project support experience in the AEC industry.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams), Microsoft Project, and a Project ERP System (Deltek Preferred).
• This office job primarily operates in a professional office and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and copy machines. May occasionally be exposed to noise. While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee may include constantly sitting, talking, hearing, repetitive motions, and occasional standing, moving, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, and coordination. This job will rarely require lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.

What Benefits You’ll Enjoy:  

We invest in us. Because our team members go above, below, and beyond the surface to care for our communities (inside and out), we do our best to take care of you by providing a comprehensive benefits package! Eligibility for some of the benefits outlined below is based on full-time work status; part-time and contingent positions are only eligible based on hours worked. If you have questions, contact [email protected]. 

• Career Growth & Development – Tuition reimbursement program, paid professional training, major license achievement bonus, extensive on-demand learning center, and paid professional memberships.  

• Work-Life Alignment – Industry-competitive PTO, seven paid holidays and two floating holidays, flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, and eligibility for hybrid and remote work options for some employees based on role responsibilities.  

• Wellness – Medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and HSA and FSA options.  

• Life – Employer-paid STD and LTD, employer-paid term life insurance, and retirement 401(k) with company match.  

• Community – Quarterly social events, paid group volunteering events, and employee networks and groups.   

How Your Career Will Grow:  

We know career growth is not always linear or streamlined—it’s often dynamic. You may want to explore a management track, try a new technical track, or move laterally to reposition your skills and talents. No matter what level you join us at or how you want to shape your career, we want Consor to be a place where you can learn and grow.