Senior Cost Manager

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

Were expanding our Health Life Science & Research Science Cost Management team and are looking for an experienced MEP Project Cost Consultant to join us. Youll deliver a variety of projects from large international programmes to smaller highimpact commissions for our national and global clients.

Using your skills in cost management planning estimating and budgeting youll develop cost plans carry out feasibility studies and benchmarking support procurement and tender evaluations review contractor proposals and manage contracts and variations through construction and handover.

This is a great opportunity to provide specialist MEP commercial and quantity surveying support across the UK and Europe with work concentrated around London Oxford and Cambridge but opportunities across our wider network. Youll be involved from early design (RIBA Stage 1) to completion working with multidisciplinary teams mentoring junior colleagues and helping us deliver projects on time and on budget.

Role accountabilities

• Provide MEP quantity surveying and commercial cost management across health life science research and related sectors.
• Prepare cost estimates feasibility studies and benchmarking; develop and manage cost plans.
• Support procurement and tender evaluations; review and agree contractor proposals and manage contract variations.
• Deliver cost control through construction and handover; advise on value engineering and wholelife cost where relevant.
• Work collaboratively across design engineering and project teams and support development of junior staff.

Qualifications & Experience

• ARICS Quantity Surveyor or equivalent commercial/quantity surveying qualification; candidates with strong MEP commercial experience but different formal titles are welcome.
• Experience on medium to large construction projects; experience in research life sciences or healthcare is a plus but not essential.
• Strong cost estimating skills and familiarity with rates benchmarking and cost databases.
• Proven ability to manage projects from inception to completion and build effective client relationships.
• Comfortable using digital cost management tools such as CostX and 5D BIM; willingness to learn new systems encouraged.

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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