Cost Engineer - Electrical, Peoria, AZ - Semiconductor

WORLD WIDE PROFESSIONAL SOLUTIONS is a project solutions organization committed to implementing lean constructions, collaborative contracting, and execution approaches to enable breakthroughs in performance. WWPS is seeking a Cost Engineer - Electrical to join our growing team in Peoria, Arizona. This onsite position will serve as part of the owner's representative team supporting a major semiconductor construction project. The successful candidate will provide independent cost oversight for electrical construction packages and will have experience with cost engineering, forecasting, earned value management, bid evaluation, change management, subcontract administration, payment validation, and procurement. The role requires a strong understanding of electrical construction means and methods, the ability to evaluate contractor pricing and installed quantities, and the judgment to identify commercial risk before it affects the owner's budget or forecast. The successful candidate must possess strong technical, analytical, organizational, and communication skills and must be able to work effectively in a fast-paced project environment. Local candidates are highly preferred due to the onsite nature of the project. RESPONSIBILITIES: Serve as the owner's representative cost engineer for assigned electrical construction packages and provide independent validation of contractor estimates, commitments, forecasts, progress, and final costs. Develop and maintain accurate monthly cost reports that identify variances in commitments, value of work completed, actual costs, accruals, approved changes, pending changes, and forecast at completion against the approved budget. Reconcile project controls data with the owner's fiscal and financial control systems, including purchase orders, work orders, commitments, accruals, invoices, and change orders. Analyze project funding requirements through estimates, cost forecasts, trend analysis, cash flow projections, and accrual of actual costs. Maintain realistic cost forecasts and clearly communicate emerging risks, scope growth, productivity concerns, procurement exposure, and potential overruns. Review contractor and trade partner estimates for completeness, reasonableness, labor assumptions, material pricing, equipment pricing, markups, escalation, schedule effects, and scope alignment. Support bid phase management, request for proposal development, bid leveling, commercial evaluation, subcontractor selection, and recommendation of award for electrical trade packages. Review, negotiate, and document change orders involving the owner, general contractor, electrical contractors, vendors, and equipment suppliers. Validate contractor payment applications by comparing billed progress with installed quantities, field status, approved schedule of values, stored materials, and contract requirements. Perform cost validation and quantity surveying using construction drawings, specifications, BIM models, schedules, field observations, contractor backup, and procurement records. Maintain change logs, trend logs, contingency drawdown records, budget transfers, commitment reports, cost reports, charts, graphics, and supporting documentation. Apply a risk-based approach to cost contingency development and quantify the potential cost impact of design development, incomplete scope, schedule delays, rework, and procurement constraints. Present cost analyses, forecasts, commercial recommendations, and decision support information to project leadership and the owner in a clear and concise manner. Coordinate closely with project controls, engineering, construction management, procurement, scheduling, commissioning, finance, and project accounting teams. Develop and track performance metrics for cost, labor hours, quantities, productivity, commitments, changes, invoice aging, and forecast accuracy. Participate in contractor, supplier, owner, and project team meetings and communicate cost expectations, required backup,…