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Senior Cost manager

Employer
Hays Construction and Property
Location
England, West Midlands, Birmingham
Salary
Up to £60000.00 per annum
Closing date
21 Oct 2020
Reference
3860206

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Sector
Infrastructure jobs
Function
Senior Estimator
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Senior Cost Manager - Birmingham City Centre - Permanent

Your new company

An international company with great strength and a culture of progression. Placing great emphasis on the training, development and assessment of their staff, they're dedicated to providing cutting-edge expertise. Join now and you'll benefit from a development programme across our Infrastructure Portfolio designed to ensure your career objectives are met in full.


Your new role

  • Lead a small team of Cost Managers within project delivery team, coordinating and aggregating the outputs and feeding into overall Programme
  • Maintain responsibility for the accuracy of cost data, including transposition into Cost systems and business reporting;
  • Assure all Cost data that feeds into Cost reporting within the area, as well as all Cost data that feeds into Programme reporting;
  • Act as main point of contact for all Cost reporting and Cost intelligence, working closely with the Head of Cost Management to maintain Cost Systems ensuring accurate reporting, bench marking and analysis of Clients infrastructure costs;
  • Provide expert professional advice covering Clients infrastructure Costs to our client and wider business stakeholders (including, but not limited to, Procurement specialists, Cost / Contract Management personnel, Estimators and Project Controllers);
  • Ensure continuous development and improvement of Clients policies, procedures and resources for all Cost services.
  • Work closely with the Finance, Commercial, Project Management teams and other Project Controls functions to ensure Cost is integrated with all other functions and aids in informing decisions; and Aid in the development of a bench marking database and in the reporting process to provide timely and accurate advice to inform decision making.



What you'll need to succeed

  • 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
  • Familiarity of the public sector policies, processes and procedures and associated political impacts. 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, 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;


  • 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



What you'll get in return

A fantastic range of benefits, which you can tailor to suit your own health, well-being, financial and lifestyle choices.



What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Company

Hays Civil Engineering is the UK’s leading recruitment company, with 50 years’ experience specialising in engineering roles. Across the UK, using our national network of 75 offices and teams of expert consultants, we match the right jobs to the right people every day. Highly trained civil engineers are in demand for both temporary contracts and on a permanent basis. We have the breadth and depth of knowledge and scale of operation to help you hire the people that can make a real difference to your bottom line.

www.hays.co.uk/engineering

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