PMO Cost Construction Estimator

Reporting to: PMO Senior Manager
- Department : PMO Latam, Development and Construction
- Job Location: Santiago office - Chile
- Travel Required: As required - app 20%

**Company Overview**:
Mainstream Renewable Power is the leading independent developer of utility-scale wind and solar power plants. The company is focused on delivering a high-quality portfolio of more than seven gigawatts of wind and solar assets across high-growth markets in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
In South Africa, Mainstream has been awarded a total of 848 megawatts of wind and solar projects under the Government’s renewable energy procurement programme since the first round in 2011, making it the country’s most successful independent renewable energy developer. The company is currently operating 360MW and constructing a further 250MW of wind farm projects which are due to reach commercial operation in 2020.
In Chile, Mainstream owns 1.3GW of fully contracted wind and solar projects in operation, in construction or at late stage development, due to its unprecedented success in government auctions. In Asia, the company is developing large-scale projects in Vietnam and the Philippines.
Mainstream has raised more than €1.6bn in project finance to date and employs 160 staff across four continents.
**Summary of Role**:
Mainstream Renewable Power is looking for PMO Cost Construction Estimator for Latam area for analyse, estimate and support in:

- Business Development Team, for value engineering
- Construction deviations, Contractor claims and others for help Cost Construction activities

**What you will do?**
- Throughout the course of a project, work with project teams to ensure documentation, supporting materials, and project cost plans are updated and available for internal teams and senior leaders.
- Work with Business Development Team for value engineering.
- Stage 0 to 1 (Pre-development): Provide order of magnitude cost & schedule estimations (top-down methodologies) for NCRE projects, substations & transmission lines, in order to provide information to calculate economical feasibility of the NCRE projects.
- Stage 2 to 5 (Development): Provide cost estimations to populate bill of quantities prepared by the engineering team, in order to bring information for project optimizations & economic valuation alternatives for NCRE projects, substations & transmission lines.
- Work with CM, CML and PMs team to obtain the background of each Construction project for the required cost
- Prepare Claims cost estimation and help in deviations for each project construction, prioritize tasks and sets deadlines. Afterward, ensure that costs system are being updated on a regular basis.
- Assist to CM, CML in creating and maintaining project costs databases.
- Coordinate and prepare Capex /Opex for Financial Close milestone.
- Review cost status of main contracts for each project.
- Contribute to develop Cost report template (main KPIs) and other relevant reports in Power BI to improve project reporting.
- Support monthly project reports, ensuring that cost information is updated by the project owners.
- Review main project deviations in Construction phase
- Support PMO Construction Manager in project reviews and asset reviews organization and reporting.
- Interaction with relevant in-house teams
- Ensuring appropriate document control in PMO

**What we require?**
- As preference, but not restringed, Civil Engineer (any discipline) with over 10 years of experience in cost construction estimate.
- Ability to work with few information in order to generate cost scenarios for represent MRP position against Contractors.
- Ability to construct full life cycle costs for wind farm and solar projects in Construction phase.
- Excellent IT skills, including experience with MS Office and a data management system such as SharePoint Online, Power BI and others.
- Attention to detail and a broader strategic view essential.
- An efficient and organised approach to working, task prioritisation and time management.
- Proven capability to meet deadlines and deliver to timelines. Management abilities.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Strong initiative and the ability to proactively identify required tasks
- Ability to maintain sight of the ‘big picture’ and overarching objectives at all times
- An organised approach to working, task prioritisation and time management
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Knowledge of project construction process
- Count with initiative to propose work methodologies and solution to problems
- High level of organization
- Great interpersonal, communication and team building skills.
- English including written and oral communication skills

**What we offer?**
We offer you the opportunity to work in a dynamic and entrepreneurial organisation, in a growingmarket in a fast paced industry. You will receive a very competitive total benefits package including an excellent base