Cost Engineer

Overview

Locations: Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees

Company: Costain

Job Description: Due to ongoing project growth, the position of Cost Engineer is required on a landmark Energy project in Teesside.

As the Senior Cost Engineer you will work within the project controls team and be responsible for cost control and forecasting. You will have a central role in the application for payment, earned value management and weekly and monthly reporting. Providing insight into variances between planned and actual costs and recommendations for mitigations. You will use your knowledge and experience to support the most efficient and effective delivery of the project.

The role is based in Teesside with a requirement to be on site as a minimum 3 days a week.

At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you're passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we'd love to hear from you-even if you don't tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.

Responsibilities

• Control, monitor, analyse and report cost related aspects for designated projects within a Portfolio.
• Ensure all cost and contract transactions on a project are understood and managed in an appropriate way.
• Continually monitor Project Risk and Change status to maintain current forecast.
• Liaise with Project team members and contractors with regards to progress and cost forecasting.
• Monitor, control and analyse the project cost information, identify variances, and bring these to the attention of the Project Manager with possible alternatives. Prepare specific reports to facilitate challenge and analysis to meet the project's specific needs.
• Challenge cost variances against the baseline plan with individual task leaders/contractors and/or outside stakeholder management as necessary to enable mitigation.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Understand the inter-relationship between time cost and commercial aspects of the project life cycle.
• Experience across whole project and programme lifecycle. (e.g., Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation/Commissioning processes).
• Proficient in the interpretation of Earned Value Analysis.
• Excellent MS Office skills and well versed in the preparation of reports and information using packages such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience across whole project and programme lifecycle. (e.g., Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation/Commissioning processes).
• Working knowledge of Primavera
• Experienced in the use of Finance and Project software.
• Working knowledge of relevant Health and Safety legislation.

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do. Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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