Cost Estimator

Gregory Martin International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Cost Consultant / Senior Cost Engineer / Cost Analyst / Cost Estimator – Defence Consultancy

Salary: £45,000 to £70,000 plus many benefits including bonus, medical and pension

Location: Bristol / Hybrid Role

Our client is a successful professional services and technology partner to global defence, energy, space, maritime, and intelligence & communications programmes.

As a Cost Consultant, you will be delivering technical consulting projects within the defence sector. You will be providing detailed analysis of data and costs to assist your client’s industry make better decisions. This may involve working in customer teams to support procurement decisions with analytical thinking and outcomes, modelling of operational performance and sustainment, or historical analysis to support learning lessons from previous operations.

Responsibilities for Senior/Principal Cost Engineer Consultant will include:

• Provide detailed analysis to support key decisions within the project teams.
• Identifying, bidding for, and winning future work within your client’s industry.
• Building and maintaining relationships with current customers.
• Using and developing problem structuring methods and a variety of tools and techniques, including novel approaches where required.
• Working organically in customer teams to deliver rapid turnaround analysis or using one of the company’s offices as a team hub from which to plan and deliver tasks.

Essential Requirements for the role of Senior Consultant:

• Proven experience in a Cost Engineering or Analyst role within a P3M environment.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent with a professional qualification (e.g., CCEA, CPCostE, CEng).
• Experience working in the defence sector/military.
• Good knowledge of statistics in support of parametric modelling, sampling, and risk analysis.
• Using logical and analytical thinking to solve complex problems for the client.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills to support analysis of data.
• Experience in Cost Estimating.
• Risk Management, Risk Analysis, Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Experience in analysing project data (cost/risk/schedule).
• Working in a client’s team to influence strategic decision-makers while delivering practical solutions.
• Be articulate with good presentation and written communication skills.
• Be dependable, committed, and have a genuine enthusiasm to contribute to the growth of a successful business.
• Understanding the military environment and MOD management structures, including knowledge of MOD approvals, the MOD acquisition cycle, and Defence lines of Development.
• Experience of identifying, bidding, and winning future work.
• Candidates from a technical consultancy background working within the MOD sector.

Preferred but not essential:

• Knowledge of statistical software packages such as ‘R’.
• Experience as a cost management consultant in the MOD, business and safety programmes, or public sector project environments.

Ability to travel to client sites across the UK as required.

Other Requirements

Candidates must have the existing right to live and work in the UK.

Candidates also need to hold a current SC Clearance or be willing and eligible to undergo security check (SC level).

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