Cost Estimator / Scheduler

PEMCCO is seeking a Cost Estimator / Scheduler to provide project controls support for cost estimating, schedule development, critical‑path analysis, budgeting, and forecasting for rail and trackwork projects. This role supports planning, design, construction, and capital program decision‑making by helping teams understand cost, schedule, sequencing, and financial impacts of proposed work.

PEMCCO, Inc. is an integrated Information Technology, Information Management (IT/IM), Systems Engineering, and Technical Services firm supporting infrastructure, transportation, and capital program delivery environments.
We assist our customers in delivering mission-critical engineering support, program coordination, data-driven decision tools, and technology-enabled solutions that enhance operational performance, asset reliability, and capital project execution.

In support of transit clients, our teams provide multidisciplinary support across trackwork engineering programs, including field inspection, data analytics, construction coordination, and capital program support functions. We specialize in bridging engineering, operations, and technology to improve system performance and lifecycle outcomes.

Living the Culture and Making It Happen is the motto we live by. We Live the Culture by carrying out the tenets of our Core Values of Loyalty, Integrity, and Commitment to our Customers and Employees every day. We Make It Happen by following Smart Organization Healthy Organization (SOHO) principles for internal and external communications and the successful execution of projects, ensuring disciplined coordination across engineering teams, field personnel, program stakeholders, and client leadership in complex, fast-paced project environments.

Our approach emphasizes flexibility, responsiveness, and execution excellence, enabling us to support both technical engineering functions and the programmatic infrastructure required to deliver safe, reliable, and efficient transportation systems.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare planning-level, design-level, and engineer’s cost estimates for track, civil, structural, and associated capital work.
• Develop and maintain schedules and sequencing logic aligned to design, review, procurement, field access, construction, and closeout activities.
• Perform schedule reviews, critical path analysis, milestone tracking, and recovery scenario support for active projects and work orders.
• Support budget and cash-flow analysis for assigned projects, task orders, and planning efforts.
• Review contractor schedules, pay applications, invoice support, and cost-related submissions for reasonableness and consistency.
• Assist with value engineering studies, alternatives analysis, and evaluation of schedule or cost impacts related to changes in scope.
• Coordinate with project managers and technical leads to align estimate assumptions with field conditions, design maturity, phasing, and delivery strategy.
• Support progress reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis for management decision-making.
• Maintain documentation of assumptions, quantities, unit costs, escalation logic, and schedule bases.
• Support MTA-facing reviews involving scope growth, cost impacts, and schedule implications.
  

Competencies:

• Estimating discipline and forecasting
• Scheduling and critical-path awareness
• Analytical rigor and attention to detail
• Understanding of infrastructure delivery lifecycle
• Clear communication with technical and management stakeholders
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, or related field.
• Minimum seven (7) years of experience in estimating, scheduling, or project controls.
• Demonstrated experience preparing cost and/or schedule products for infrastructure projects.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with rail, transit, or transportation capital projects.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6, MS Project, cost databases, or estimating platforms.
• AACE, PSP, CCP, or related project controls training preferred.
  

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

• Ability to support multiple concurrent assignments with shifting priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to work with contractor data, technical inputs, and management reporting requirements.
  

Benefits

• 15 days of Paid Time Off
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Life Insurance, Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Whole Life Plus, Identity Theft, and Law Assure
• 401(k)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  
  

Compensation

• $47 – $78 per hour, depending on Experience, Tools, and Infrastructure Experience.

PEMCCO, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. The Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Salary : $47 - $78