Cost Engineer

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Georgia-Pacific is currently recruiting for a Cost Engineer to support Projects and Engineering. This group consists of individuals across the United States working with our facilities on capital project execution. The Cost Engineer will drive cost best practices in accurate cost analysis, forecasting, and support for project planning. With proven forecasting skills, the ideal candidate anticipates risks and informs strategic, data-backed decisions to optimize value creation for projects.

This position is a remote position with travel involved. The amount of travel would be up to 10% dependent on business needs.

Our Team

Our team throughout the United States is made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds supporting project services capabilities across the Georgia Pacific Organization. The Project Services team builds and strengthens relationships with industry wide partners to successfully execute projects throughout the United States. Our team is comprised of project controls leads, estimators, risk managers, cost engineers, and other capability leaders to own, develop, and support the Business Process for Projects. We also drive the development of early project professionals.

What You Will Do

• Monitor and analyze cost to control cost and improve project cost outcomes.
• Identify cost trends, risks, and cost variance and recommend corrective actions.
• Progress tracking; earned value analysis.
• Collaborate with project teams to create and monitor budgets for projects and operational initiatives
• Forecast final financial outcomes
• Maintain project reporting and ad hoc requests for Project and Leadership Teams.
• Collaborate with Project Controls Team to determine cost impacts in areas of scheduling, estimating, risk, and change management.
• Collaborate with key project partners and vendors to ensure fully integrated and accurate cost management.
• Contribute to the strategy to transform our cost capability
  
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in Project Controls or Cost Engineering
• Experience supporting the management of construction projects
• Experience in data analytics tools (i.e., Excel, Power BI)
• Demonstrated analytical skills and problem-solving skills on projects
• Demonstrated comfortability and confidence in new systems
  
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Project Controls or Cost Engineering
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering, Construction/Building Science, or Business/Finance/Accounting
• EcoSys software experience
• Qlik software experience
  
  
  

For this role, we anticipate paying $85k - $110k per year. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).