Cost Engineer - Construction jobs in San Jose, CA

Reports to: Senior Accountant

Summary of Position: This person will be responsible for managing and maintaining Blach’s accounting of job costs to provide accurate financial information to management. This position requires attention to detail, as well as proactive cross-functional collaboration throughout the organization.

Responsibilities:                      

• Record monthly SDI and GL insurance to jobs
• Manage Textura subcontractor billing tool for Blach’s Southern California region, including reviewing sub tier lien releases, preliminary notices, AR collections, and authorizing subcontractor payments
• Job cost transfers, including miscellaneous transfers and B job cost transfers
• Record monthly cell phone allocation to jobs
• Review and produce IT service invoices
• Record monthly iPad and Verizon invoices to jobs
• Review and record monthly fuel allocation to jobs
• Monthly reconciliation of cost and billings
• Update and manage Silicon Valley Equipment Leasing tool information
• Maintain and track business licenses
  

Skills/Qualifications:             

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• GL experience required, including recording journal entries and performing reconciliations
• Construction industry experience preferred
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
• Extreme attention to detail, highly organized
• Proactive, takes initiative on all projects
• Great analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strong communication skills

Position Status: Full-time, regular business hours, non-exempt

Compensation: Blach Construction offers an outstanding compensation package, including a highly competitive base salary, an initial three weeks of paid vacation (growing to four weeks after five years of service), holidays, and sick leave. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) plan with company match, profit-sharing, long-term disability insurance, cash bonuses based upon performance, professional development and education assistance, paid parental leave, credit union membership, adoption assistance, infertility treatment assistance, student loan pay-down program, health club/gym subsidy, professional affiliations and many other benefits. The company practices a progressive management style that truly values and appreciates high-quality team members.

About Blach Construction:                 

Founded in 1970, commercial general contractor Blach Construction is recognized across the construction industry and general business community for its projects, innovation, employee engagement and community service. Quality and safety are at Blach’s core. As a result, the firm is continually ranked as a “Top Contractor in California” by Engineering News-Record, has received multiple “Construction Safety Excellence Awards” from the Associated General Contractors of California, and as a testament to its company culture, Blach has been recognized repeatedly since 2009 as a “Best Place to Work” in the Bay Area by the Silicon Valley Business Journal/San Francisco Business Times. Blach is headquartered in San Jose with offices in Monterey and Southern California.

Named as the #1 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area in 2019 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times and one of the Top 100 Best Companies to work for in the United States in 2013 and 2016, Blach Construction is a financially stable, award-winning, mid-sized general building contractor and construction manager headquartered in San Jose with operations throughout the greater Bay Area.

Blach offers an outstanding benefits package, which you can read about on the company website, as well as an extensive training and development program for all employees through our own Blach University. The management of the company is dedicated to maintaining a stimulating and exciting work environment where teamwork and excellence are encouraged and supported. For more information, check out the company’s website at www.blach.com.

Blach Construction is an Equal Opportunity Employer.