Associate Cost Manager - Manufacturing North West

Malvern Rugby Football Club; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainable design seeks an experienced Associate Cost Consultant for their Industrial Manufacturing Cost Management team. This role involves managing costs for high-profile industrial projects across the UK and Europe, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery. The position offers a collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.

Qualifications

• Proven experience on large, complex construction projects.
• Ability to lead projects from inception to completion.
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead professional Quantity Surveying and Cost Management services.
• Work on cost estimates and contract management.
• Engage with clients and manage stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Cost estimating

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor

Tools

Digital Cost Management

CostX

5D BIM

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description

We're excited to be growing our Industrial Manufacturing Cost Management team. We are looking for an experienced Associate Cost Consultant to join us in delivering high-profile manufacturing facilities for market-leading global clients.

As part of our Cost Management team, you'll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high-profile to small and impactful, ensuring they are delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in planning, estimating, budgeting, and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working.

We work with our clients around the world to create, support, and enhance smart, safe, and sustainable places where people live, work, learn, and thrive. Places impact the quality of people's lives. Whether new homes, shops, workplaces, schools, hospitals, manufacturing, research and development facilities, or data and distribution centers. People and communities thrive when the spaces in which they live, work, move, and play are designed and managed to meet their needs.

Role Accountabilities

In this role, you'll help lead our delivery of professional Quantity Surveying and Cost Management services to high-profile clients, working on large industrial buildings and distribution centers across the UK & Europe.

You'll have the opportunity to work on projects from inception through to completion. Day-to-day activities include working on cost estimates/feasibilities, benchmarking, the procurement process, reviewing, and agreeing contractor proposals, and contract management.

You'll be supported to develop your career within a collaborative team environment, and you'll have the opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team passionate about delivering excellent service and positive outcomes for our clients.

Qualifications & Experience

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself on the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are technically capable with a passion for the industrial manufacturing sector and delivering exceptional results. You come to us with:

• MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor
• Passionate about driving innovation in service and delivering exceptional results
• Proven experience working on large, complex construction projects within the industrial manufacturing sector, or from within other heavy MEP sectors
• Ability to lead projects from inception to completion
• Strong cost estimating experience and rate/benchmark knowledge
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build good client relationships
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior colleagues
• Good leadership skills
• Experience with Digital Cost Management and CostX, 5D BIM, and Benchmarking tools

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. That's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You will do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life, and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves accountable for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of how we improve quality of life, and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+, and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.