Cost Lead, Energy & Utilities (Hybrid UK)

Mace; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mace, a leading construction and consultancy firm, is seeking a Senior Cost Manager to lead cost engineering activities across major projects in the UK. You will develop and maintain cost estimates, budgets, and cash-flow profiles aligned with project scope and schedule.

You will monitor costs, provide variance analysis, produce reports for leadership and stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement in cost processes through automation and governance alignment with WBS and CBS.

Qualifications

• Membership of RICS, CIOB, APM, ICE or equivalent.
• Extensive experience delivering projects in a regulated infrastructure environment.
• Deep property or infrastructure project management expertise.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Leadership and management experience of large, diverse teams.
• Experience managing relationships with key senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of how carbon and sustainability considerations will shape project outlooks.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost leadership across project governance, processes and standards.
• Develop and maintain cost estimates, budgets, forecasts and cash-flow profiles aligned with project scope and schedule.
• Monitor actual costs, commitments and accruals against the approved baseline with variance/root-cause analysis.
• Produce timely cost reports and performance updates for project teams and stakeholders.
• Ensure effective alignment between WBS, CBS, schedule and cost management systems.
• Support the implementation of Earned Value Management to assess cost and schedule performance.
• Identify cost risks and contingency forecasts with the Risk team.
• Lead cost impact assessments for proposed changes, including funding requests and baseline updates.
• Provide cost leadership during baseline development and re-baselining activities.
• Maintain project information within approved cost management systems with audit trails.
• Investigate cost anomalies or process gaps and ensure compliance.
• Provide specialist advice to Project Managers and delivery teams.
• Improve and automate cost management and reporting processes.

Skills

Cost management

Forecasting

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk analysis

Process improvement

Data analysis

Tools

ERP systems

Earned Value Management (EVM) tools

Excel advanced

Job description

Mace, a leading construction and consultancy firm, is seeking a Senior Cost Manager to lead cost engineering activities across major projects in the UK. You will develop and maintain cost estimates, budgets, and cash-flow profiles aligned with project scope and schedule.

You will monitor costs, provide variance analysis, produce reports for leadership and stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement in cost processes through automation and governance alignment with WBS and CBS.