Cost Engineers - Hospital Construction

TURNER & TOWNSEND; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction consultancy in Newcastle upon Tyne seeks an experienced Cost Engineering professional to manage a hospital construction program. Responsibilities include developing project cost control structures, tracking costs, and ensuring budget alignment. Applicants should have experience in project controls across various program phases and be conversant with cost management systems like Ecosys and ERP interfaces.

Benefits

Healthy work-life balance

Flexible working environment

Inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project controls for major programs.
• Understanding of cost engineering procedures and processes.
• Experience through all project lifecycle phases.

Responsibilities

• Develop cost control data structures for tracking.
• Establish project control budget aligned with baselines.
• Accurate and timely reporting of cost-related information.

Skills

Project controls coordination

Cost management systems

Earned Value Management

Risk management

Budget tracking

Tools

Ecosys

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Overview

As an experienced Cost Engineering professional, you will work on a hospital construction programme. You will establish the required processes, templates and tools, and agree the baseline for cost and schedule, whilst monitoring performance against it and incorporating the impacts of risk, opportunities and change in a controlled manner.

Responsibilities

• Development of project cost control data structures to accurately track and control actual costs
• Establishing and setting the project control budget aligned with agreed baselines
• The tracking of actual costs both for internal and external expenditure against the cost controls structures
• The tracking and control of project accruals and commitments against set budget constraints
• The build of project forecast to include estimate to complete (ETC) and the development of the estimate at complete (EAC)
• The accurate and timely reporting of all cost related project information
• Working with the planning function to accurately apply Earned Value Management rules
• The tracking of project contingency and exposure associated with risk events and remaining risks on the project
• The tracking of project change control to ensure alignment with agreed baselines and control data structures
• The tracking of key project trends and actioning as appropriate

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project controls coordination in all phases of the project lifecycle including program, risk and reporting for major programs such as rail, highways etc.
• Worked across the full project lifecycle including for pre-investment decision, design development, execution, and commissioning phases.
• Has experience in working to cost engineering procedures and processes, and the ability to define project cost procedures and standards to which the project and/or programme will adhere to.
• Highly conversant with cost management systems such as Ecosys, including for the interface with corporate ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle. The cost engineer would have an appreciation of business rules, and how project funding and performance aligns with business financial account requirements within the project or programme environment.

Additional Information

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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