Project Cost Consultant Manchester
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Job Location:
Manchester - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
We are seeking to appoint an ambitious Project Cost Consultant to join our Property team in the Manchester office delivering significant property schemes throughout the North West of England. Ideally you will be recently RICS qualified or on your route to do so.
Our team is involved in delivering some of the regions largest and most exciting Buildings projects in the residential commercial office and sports and leisure sectors ranging from 20m - 500m in value. We have a fantastic pipeline which we are recruiting for and these projects will allow you to grow as an individual and provide you with the opportunity to work on the best projects and industry leading Clients in the region.
Working with an established and highly successful team your role will be to provide competent and professional quantity surveying support on a number of our large schemes plus the opportunity of leading your own schemes. You will be working closely with Senior Directors within the business and will get great exposure to future development opportunities.
This role is for hybrid working with 2-3 days based in the office to allow for collaboration with the team and to assist with personal development.
Role accountabilities:
- Assisting on early stage (RIBA 0/1) feasibility and optioneering studies
- Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
- Tendering and procuring of construction works including providing procurement advice to Clients
- Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes
- Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place
- Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Inputting into value engineering
- Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
- Interfacing with the Client and other consultants at all project stages
- Contributing to team initiatives inputting into team resourcing needs supporting new Graduates/Apprentices
Qualifications & Experience:
- RICS accredited surveyor or approaching final assessment (mentorship and assistance will be provided as needed)
- Good knowledge of construction technology able to read and interpret architectural and structural drawings to facilitate measurement and cost control
- Strong quantification skills ideally with knowledge of using Cost-X or similar measurement software
- Commercial experience on major building projects 1m-10m
- Capable of working with the project lead in taking a project through from inception to completion
- Strong knowledge of the JCT Contracts including Contract preparation and administration
- Demonstration of self-management and prioritisation skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to influence and lead stakeholders and third parties. Role will involve significant amount of Client facing duties.
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.
Together we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age Disability Faith Gender LGBT and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Sales Experience
- IT Project Management
- Microsoft Word
- Outside Sales
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Project Management Software
- Microsoft Project
- Customer relationship management
- Writing Skills
About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more
