Our Client, a leading engineering and design consultancy, is seeking a Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor to join their team in Belfast.
Experience Required for Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor:
- A Cost Management or Quantity Surveying Qualification or similar.
- Minimum of three years post graduate experience.
- Commercial, quantity surveying, and/or finance skills, with working knowledge of the construction industry, and experience of working with NEC form of contract.
- Technical experience in Cost Management services across complex infrastructure.
- An understanding of industry benchmarks / best practices, Cost and Work Breakdown Structures, and methods of measurements.
- Growing network within the infrastructure sector.
- An aptitude to apply innovation, technical excellence, and exceptional service delivery. - Experience of monitoring, analysing, and controlling cost performance against set targets.
- Examples of identifying/applying cost efficient solutions.
- Awareness of the challenges and opportunities in the industry. - Awareness of performance measurement of projects using Earned Value Management (EVM) and similar techniques.
Job Responsibilities:
- Reporting into the Head of Cost Management leadership team, you will be a member of the Project Controls management team responsible for building long term, sustainable team relationships with both members of our own organisation, and wider Client base.
- Support our Cost Management capability including development and use of Power-BI, PRISM, Oracle, Deltek, Ecosys and other Cost Management related software.
- Engage our community of practice and support technical excellence, service innovation and development of our benchmarking capabilities.
- Deliver excellent client service on our commissions through quality assurance and regular client care.
- Support and lead your teams on project / technical delivery.
- Support with delivering the strategy for the Cost Management Service including identifying continuous development.
- Deliver an exceptional cost management service for multiple stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities for growth, linked to the Complex Infrastructure business strategy.
- Support with the Cost Management business development activity.
- Opportunities to Support Key Account Management activities.
- Engagement and understanding of internal business processes.
- Support key accounts to maximise our impact
- Having responsibility, under minimum supervision, delivering portfolios and projects.
- Supporting with technical advice to different stakeholders.
- Competence in project commercial accountability.
- Have a developing knowledge of legal and technical matters relevant to the work you do, and the law of the region or country in which you practice.
- Mentor and develop Assistant Cost Managers and Cost Managers .
- Actively engaging within a project delivery environment.