Senior Cost Manager Infrastructure- Utilities
Senior Cost Manager Infrastructure- Utilities
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Job Description
The Opportunity:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cost Manger to join our Infrastructure team on a major capital Utilities project. Owing to the nature of the projects the role will suit someone with experience of working on large complex Capital Programmes.
Responsibilities:
As the Senior Cost Manager the successful candidate will:
- Develop and implement cost and contract management strategies.
- Develop and manage project budgets forecasts and governance papers.
- Implement administer and maintain cost control systems and procedures to track project budgets commitments expenditures and forecasts.
- Support the administration of contracts including assessment of contract variations and claims and providing client with contract advice.
- Commercial review of pricing submissions including benchmarking of project costs.
- Support the risk team with financial impacts of potential risks.
- Develop and maintain relationships with interfacing disciplines including but not limited to Finance Commercial and Project Managers to ensure alignment of project information.
- Provide regular updates on cost control initiatives and financial performance.
- Identify trends and variances to budgets and forecasts through financial analysis and provide recommendations to support effective decision making.
- Develop commercial reporting tools and generate cost reports on a regular basis.
- Training and coaching less experienced team members on cost control and commercial management processes and practices.
Qualifications :
- Qualification in Quantity Surveying with 10 years working in cost management on large capital programmes. Previous experience in the Utilities sector is preferred but not essential.
- Must have a clear understanding of and ability to work with construction contract commercial documents drawings and specifications.
- Strong experience of delivering technically complex and high value infrastructure projects
- Experience of working in a comparable consultancy environment or with a client or contractor organisation
- Knowledge of cost management principles methods techniques and tools including the standard method of measurement
- Demonstrable working knowledge of the NEC form of Contract
Skills
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team while ensuring that all cost management tasks are conducted in a timely and accurate manner.
- Ability to develop long term relationships with all team members and effectively balance people and processes.
- Previous experience of managing resources including mentoring of more junior staff members
Additional Information :
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
