People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Lead and champion the cost management system, process and standards both internally to Major Projects and more widely into corporate functions.
Identify and drive cost management and analysis best practice to continuously improve current processes, systems, behaviours and tools.
Ensure consistency in the way that Cost Management is delivered and managedacross Major Programmes and Projects.
Play a key role in the development, set up, implementation, use and maintenance of the Cost Management system, Procedure
Define and communicate the cost reporting requirements to enable effective and efficient project and programme delivery.
Compare, analyse and interrogate cost data and trends against the original cost estimates and budgets to identify opportunities to bring costs in line with estimates and budgets and to support informed decision making.
Prepare timely, intelligent and accurate cost reporting of key performance metrics and analysis to a range of stakeholders.
Change Management - Analyse and understand change requests and their impact on budgets and associated estimates.
Support and inform the cost estimating process. Unit cost Model implementation
Compliance of Client Governance
Business Knowledge
- Substantial experience in a relevant project, programme or portfolio controls role ideally in an infrastructure organisation
- Advanced understanding of the industry best practice approach to cost management and experience in applying this.
Essential Functional / Technical Skills
- Detailed experience and understanding of cost management methodologies and techniques
- Strong knowledge of the preparation and maintenance of project budgets, forecasts, cost estimates, change management and reporting
- Strong commercial and financial understanding of processes
- Experience in carrying out economic and Earned Value analysis andin utilising and improving cost management tools
- Thorough understanding of unit cost drivers and movement
- Relevant training and development in cost management and/or related subject areas
- Knowledge of Cost Management systems and Planning Basic such as Planning P6 (primavera)
- Understanding of other tools:), SAP, CEMAR (Contracts), Oracle
- Working in NEC form of contracts
- Experience in Delivery Partner, Alliances & JV environments on major programmes
Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity.and we truly believe thatby supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed.
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do.
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format),please .
Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then
