Cost Engineer - Mechanical/Process Piping, 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 - Mechanical/Process Piping to join our growing team in Peoria, Arizona. This onsite role will support a confidential semiconductor project as part of the owner's representative team. The successful candidate will provide cost engineering, forecasting, quantity validation, change management, and commercial support for mechanical and process piping scopes across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover. RESPONSIBILITIES Serve as the owner's representative cost engineer for assigned mechanical and process piping work packages. Develop and maintain budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, contingencies, and estimate at completion by area, system, bid package, and contractor. Prepare accurate monthly cost reports that identify variances in commitments, earned value, installed quantities, changes, and forecasted final cost against approved budgets. Reconcile project controls data with the client's fiscal, procurement, and financial control systems. Analyze project funding requirements through estimates, cost forecasts, trend analysis, and accrual of actual costs. Maintain realistic forecasts and clearly communicate emerging cost exposure, commercial risk, and potential budget impacts. Support bid phase activities, including scope reviews, bid leveling, commercial evaluations, clarifications, and recommendations for award. Review contractor proposals, change orders, claims, and requests for equitable adjustment for scope, quantities, labor, equipment, material, indirect costs, markups, and schedule impacts. Validate payment applications and progress billings against approved schedules of values, installed work, stored materials, and supporting documentation. Maintain change logs, trend logs, commitment records, procurement status, and cost reports for assigned work packages. Apply earned value and quantity based progress measurement to monitor budget, actual cost, forecast cost, labor hours, productivity, and physical percent complete. Develop risk based cost contingencies and support cost reduction, cost avoidance, and value improvement initiatives. Present cost analyses, forecasts, variances, and recommendations to project leadership and client stakeholders in a clear and concise manner. Coordinate with construction management, engineering, scheduling, procurement, finance, contractors, suppliers, and commissioning teams. Contribute to standardization and continuous improvement of cost engineering tools, processes, reports, and data quality. MECHANICAL AND PROCESS PIPING SCOPE Review and interpret process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentation diagrams, mechanical plans, piping plans, isometrics, specifications, equipment lists, vendor data, and BIM or VDC models to understand cost and scope. Develop and validate quantity based cost tracking for pipe by size, material, and specification, as well as fittings, valves, supports, weld inches, specialty components, insulation, heat tracing, testing, flushing, cleaning, and system turnover. Support cost control for semiconductor facility systems that may include ultra pure water, process cooling water, chilled water, condenser water, heating water, compressed dry air, process vacuum, bulk gas, specialty gas, chemical distribution, process drains, wastewater neutralization, and utility equipment connections. Track contractor labor hours, crew productivity, installed quantities, material utilization, shop fabrication, field installation, equipment setting, tie ins, and completion status. Evaluate cost impacts associated with routing changes, design development, congestion, access constraints, shutdowns, phased releases, field conditions, rework, testing requirements, and startup sequencing. Assess scope boundari…