Career defining opportunities now available on the UK's most exciting civil engineering project, HS2.

If you are a Cost Manager, this is the project to be on.

Are you looking to work for an international company who makes your career objectives, your progression, training and development a priority?

Join my client, you'll benefit from a development programme across our Infrastructure Portfolio designed to ensure your career objectives are met in full.
We are looking for Cost Managers to support Infrastructure project teams and post Covid 19 restrictions, based in our client's support offices across London.

These roles will be mainly home based due to COVID but applicants will ideally be local to London on as they will be visiting HS2 offices regularly and the offices are slowly reopening.

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 + package, depending on experience

Key Competencies and Underpinning Knowledge:
·Experience on significant Infrastructure projects ideally but not limited to the Rail Sector
·Good working knowledge of financial systems.
·Understand the inter-relationship between time cost and commercial aspects of the project life cycle.
·Working knowledge of Primavera.
·Experience and knowledge of cost systems, such as SAP, Oracle CostOS and PRISM; and
Familiarity of the public sector policies, processes and procedures and associated political impacts

My client offers an impressive range of benefits including but not limited to:
·Travel insurance
·Life assurance
·Competitive pension schemes
·Travel insurance
·Gym discount
·Dental insurance
·A structured training scheme
·Continuous Professional Development Activities
Responsibilities:
·Provide key point of contact for all Cost reporting and cost intelligence, working closely with the Senior Cost Manager to maintain Cost models to ensure accurate reporting, benchmarking and analysis of infrastructure Costs;
·Provide expert professional advice covering Infrastructure Costs to our Client and wider business stakeholders (including, but not limited to, Procurement Specialists, Cost / Contract Management personnel, Estimators and Project Controls);
·Ensure continuous development and improvement of our Client's policies, procedures and resources
·Work closely with the Scheduling team to ensure integration and alignment of infrastructure Cost models and schedules; and
·Aid in the development of benchmarking database and reporting process to provide timely and accurate advice to inform decision making.


Requirements:
·Membership of the RICS, ACostE, ICES or similar relevant professional association, and degree or equivalent experience or achieved NVQ Level 2 in Project Controls;
·Experience in high value, complex construction or infrastructure project environments;
·Understanding of complex and diverging project data, with an ability to assimilate and convert into meaningful metrics and management reports;
·Commercial and quantity surveying skills, with full working knowledge of the construction industry, in particular NEC Form of Contracts and their commercial basis;
·Ability to develop and understand performance measurement of projects using Earned Value Management and similar techniques;
·Commercial and quantity surveying skills, with full working knowledge of the construction industry, in particular NEC Form of Contracts and their commercial basis;
·Ability to develop and understand performance measurement of projects using Earned Value Management (EVM) and similar techniques


Security Clearance:
This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview.

If applying to this role please send in your CV to me at <email address removed> or give me a call on <phone number removed>