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Cost Manager
A national leading consultancy in Milton Keynes have an opening for both a Cost Manger and a Senior Cost Manager to join their team.
Working on a range of industry leading schemes, they operate within a range of sectors, including education, healthcare, leisure, retail and residential. The majority of their workload is refurbishment, and they are most prominent in the retail sector
Lots of benefits:
- £40-65,000 DOE
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- 6% pension
- All expenses covered for work purposes
- Hybrid working 2-3 days office & home
- 8.30 to 5 again flexible you can start earlier/ finish earlier if you prefer
- Private health insurance and can add your family
- Open plan office
- Informal working environment
- Trust people manage your own workload
- Casual dress
- Regular social events
- Plenty of room to progress
- RICS support
The role - Cost Manager
You will be joining a team of 19 and will enjoy working in a collaborative working environment in a modern, open plan office.
You will focus on works for 1 large client undertaking refurbishment and fit out works, and alongside this, will looking after condition improvement works on education schemes, such as re-roofing works, fire upgrades, etc.
Office based in the main, out seeing clients roughly once a week.
You will take on a project from initial feasibility, agree contract sums, manage delivery, change control, valuations, agree final accounts. Initial retail projects range in value from £40K to over £2m.
Job Objectives:
- Establishing friendly, professional relationships with clients and be an extension of their team
- Subcontractor tendering and reviewing costs.
- Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget.
- Pro-actively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow and ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
- Collaborating with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
- Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed.
The right person. Cost Manager
You will either be an experienced Cost Manager, or a Quantity Surveyor.
Main contractor or consultancy experience
Refurbishment experience is key (walls, ceilings, floors, M & E)
You will used to working at pace on fast turnaround projects
Cost Manager / Cost Management / Quantity Surveyor / Estimator
