➡️ As our Cost Engineering Lead, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the financial health and success of our programmes.
➡️ Your expertise will drive accurate cost control, robust forecasting, and value optimization, directly influencing the efficiency and effectiveness of our project delivery.
➡️ By establishing performance measurement techniques and supporting risk and change management, you will provide critical insights that shape our strategic decisions and project outcomes.
📈 Innovation: Be at the forefront of innovative approaches to major complex civil infrastructure programmes
We Offer
💷 Competitive salary: We offer compensation that reflects your skills and experience
🏖️ 24 days holiday + option to buy a further 10 days
4️⃣ Life assurance at 4x your salary
♿ Income Protection: Financial security in case of long-term illness or injury
😄 Wellbeing Hub: Free access to wellbeing apps like Calm and Daily Burn
💼 Professional Development: We cover professional membership fees and provide continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities
In this Cost Engineering Lead role, you will:
✅ Ensure Compliance and Functional Direction: Adhere to Programme Controls Policy, Strategy, and Plan, while providing direction for Cost Engineering and aligning with other PMO functions
✅ Manage and Control Costs: Develop and improve Cost Management systems, ensuring accurate cost control, change and baseline management, and robust forecasting
✅ Implement Earned Value Management (EVM): Establish performance measurement of projects using EVM and similar techniques, providing data-driven insights into performance
✅ Drive Risk and Change Management: Align risk and cost processes to support forecasts, and proactively support the identification and management of risk and change
✅ Collaborate and Coordinate: Work with Cost Engineers and Control Account Managers to standardize and ensure consistency of Cost Management processes, supporting other Programme Controls functions as required
✅ Manage Reporting and Interfaces: Ensure the reported cost position is accurate and reconcilable, managing the cost interface with other functional leads and supporting monthly Board Reporting data on cost-related matters
