Job Description

Job Title: PC Specialist 3

Location: Greenville, SC

Duration: 12+ months

Pay: $92/hour - all hours worked

Benefits: 2 weeks PTO, 10 paid holidays

Per Diem: GSA rates

Start Date: ASAP

Openings: 1

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expert guidance on cost estimating strategy, methodology, and best practices for large-scale, complex nuclear construction projects.
• Develop, review, and analyze detailed project cost estimates from conceptual design through final construction phases, covering all project elements, including engineering, procurement, and construction.
• Serve as a primary resource for validating and verifying internal and external cost estimates from contractors and subcontractors.
• Analyze historical cost data and apply advanced statistical and analytical techniques to improve the accuracy and reliability of cost estimates.
• Collaborate with the project controls, engineering, and project management teams to ensure that cost estimates are fully integrated with work breakdown structures (WBS), project schedules, and risk assessments.
• Lead complex cost risk analysis activities, providing expert input on potential cost impacts and mitigation strategies.
• Prepare detailed cost estimates and support documentation for change orders, contract modifications, and claims.
• Present cost estimates, analyses, and findings to senior NNSA leadership and stakeholders, defending the basis of the estimate and addressing questions.
• Mentor junior estimators and support the development of internal estimating procedures and processes consistent with DOE Order 413.3B.
• Stay current with industry trends, market conditions, and technology related to heavy industrial and nuclear construction to ensure estimates reflect current conditions.
• Provide guidance to management on classification requirements and compliance and on the CD process and deliverable format.
• Review and provide input to specifications for engineered equipment and/or subcontracts.
• Review and provide input to estimators on resources (labor and other-than-labor) needed to perform the scope of work.
• Provide input to schedulers on sequence, durations, and logic of activities.
• Provide input to management regarding risk-informed schedules to serve as the basis for establishing milestones and PBIs.
• Provide input to engineers, estimators, and schedulers on constructability, maintainability, operability, and commissioning
• Provide input to technical writers for BOEs, BOS, and WBS data dictionary.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must have a working knowledge of Federal (including Department of Energy Orders), State, and Local codes and standards applicable to project controls.
• A minimum of 20 years+ of progressively responsible experience in cost estimating and/or project controls for large, complex industrial or heavy construction projects, with significant experience in the nuclear or defense sector.
• A Bachelor's Degree: IN Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field. Relevant and extensive experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Expert-level knowledge of nuclear construction regulations, safety standards, and project controls practices as they apply to NNSA/DOE projects.
• Advanced proficiency with estimating software, scheduling tools, and Microsoft Excel. Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) is highly desirable.

FootBridge is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We make employment decisions based on qualifications and business needs, without discrimination on any basis, and we welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.

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