Due to an internal promotion, the position of
Cost Engineering Capability Lead has become available to join and lead our Cost Engineering Team as part of the
Advisory – Project Controls.
Cost Engineering sits within the overall Projects Control Advisory Capability. The Team consists of approximately 25 resources deployed across multiple clients and industries.
Reporting to the Head of Project Controls you will be working as our Cost Engineering Capability Lead within the Project Controls Advisory Discipline where you will be responsible for leading, growing and delivering the development of your service into an established, growing, outward looking, and recognised, client focussed Cost Engineering consultancy service.
This
home-based role will involve travel to our offices in London & Manchester along with client visits and site attendance as and when required so flexibility to travel is essential.
This position has a
competitive salary dependent on skills and experience, in addition to a
fantastic benefits package including pension contribution matched up to 10% and a dedicated professional development budget.
Please note potential candidates must be eligible to obtain and retain Security Clearance to be considered for this position.
Role Responsibilities
- Have at least 10 years post qualification experience in a project management and project controls SME role with a good understanding of Bid Writing & Business Development.
- Proven experience of managing a team in a PMO environment will be highly advantageous
- Experience working on multidisciplinary projects ideally across our core markets: Transportation, Energy, Water, and Defence & Nuclear Energy.
- Hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- MSP, P30 and / or MoP advantageous
- Champions Sustainability Safety, Health, and Environment by putting personal safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do and helping the environment and communities to thrive.
- Having integrity by always doing the right thing in the right way
- Must be customer focussed by striving for excellence through understanding, anticipating, and meeting their needs.
For a full job description, please contact careers@costain.com quoting the vacancy number.
About Costain
At Costain, we help to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive.
We work together to shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the UK’s infrastructure ecosystem across energy, water, transportation and defence markets. Through our collaboration with customers, partners, communities, and wider industry we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.
Your application
Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com
We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.
To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:
https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/
Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.
For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.
Closing date
Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
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It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
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