Cost Manager

Maxim Recruitment; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A premium construction consultancy is seeking a Cost Manager in Birmingham to work within their civil engineering division. This role involves supporting infrastructure projects, ensuring effective cost management, and contributing to contract administration. The ideal candidate will have strong client-facing skills, experience with NEC3 contracts, and a degree in Quantity Surveying or related field. The position comes with a generous salary and benefits, including private medical insurance and a car allowance.

Benefits

Generous basic salary

Car allowance

Private medical insurance

Health & life insurances

Generous pension contributions

Qualifications

• Experience with NEC3 form of contract.
• Ability to manage cost variance and contract cash flow.
• Familiarity with cost reporting and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Establish professional relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Assist with accurate project cost monitoring and reporting.
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams on project deliverables.

Skills

Client facing skills

Cost Management experience

Change Management experience

Contract Management duties

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management

MRICS or equivalent chartership

Job description

Project Details

Cost Manager jobs are available within several of the dedicated infrastructure teams within the contract and cost management division.

This Cost Manager job offers the opportunity to work as a part of a team under a Senior Cost Manager, across a variety of standalone projects and long term ongoing frameworks encompassing nearly all aspects of UK infrastructure construction and renewal work.

A brief indicative sample of recent, current and future infrastructure projects include :

• High Speed 2 / HS2
• Other rail upgrade projects
• Major London aviation expansion and renewal projects
• Ongoing water framework projects and AMP 8 water framework partner work
• Major new infrastructure crossing the Thames in London
• A variety of one-off major road and highway projects as well as confirmed highway frameworks

Responsibilities and Duties

• To deploy your client facing skills to establish friendly, professional and appropriate relationships with clients, colleagues and other parties involved in projects and programmes being supported
• Assist with the administration of a variety of contracts and contract types, including NEC, in accordance with project objectives and policies.
• Assist in the provision of accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting throughout the project lifecycle to completion in line with budget.
• Monitor and manage cost variance and contract cash flow, ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
• Help to manage contract change effectively, ensuring that projects remain within governance and adopt best practice
• Help to drive improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets
• Provide sound commercial knowledge and support to all stakeholders
• Assist with the progress of final accounts during negotiation and ensure final agreement and settlement

Desired Skills and Experience

It is understood that applicants may not have all the required experience in all the areas listed below, and training can be provided in some areas. Assistance with APC is offered and there is an established internal training scheme that offers structured assistance and a very high pass rate.

It is essential to be able to demonstrate excellent communication and client facing skills gained and demonstrated to have been effective in your previous Cost Manager role/s undertaken.

It is expected that suitable Cost Managers will have had exposure to some of the duties listed below.

• Experience of undertaking or assisting with Contract Management duties, ideally under NEC3 form of contract
• Some change management experience
• Some Cost Management experience
• Some Change control experience
• Some Valuation experience
• Some Procurement experience
• Some Estimating experience
• Some Pricing experience
• Some Cost reporting experience
• Some Experience of undertaking collaborative working
• This role would particularly suit candidates that have previously worked for a “top 10” cost consultancy, either on civil engineering infrastructure projects or large scale building construction projects although experience with a smaller consultancy or end user is acceptable
• Candidates with high quality contracting experience with a leading UK or international civil engineering contractor are also invited to apply

Qualifications / Educational Requirements

• A degree in Quantity Surveying, cost management or commercial management or equivalent is desired
• MRICS, MInstCES, HKIS, CIQS or equivalent recognised Chartership within Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, Contracts Management or Commercial Management is desired although help with APC to achieve chartership can be provided
• Assistance with achieving MRICS through the APC route can be provided to candidate able to show their commitment to work towards this status

Employing Company Overview and Profile

This Cost Management and Contracts Management employer is a premium name in UK construction consultancy. Maxim Recruitment is proud to have worked with them in the UK and internationally for many years and we are one of a very few approved recruitment suppliers to this organisation.

This employer’s broader business capability encompasses a variety of UK and international business units including project management, programme management, cost management and quantity surveying, commercial management, project controls, procurement and supply chain management.

In particular, this Senior Cost Manager job role is to work within the civil engineering and infrastructure division of their cost and contracts consultancy part of the company, that employs hundreds of Quantity Surveyors, Cost Managers and Contracts professionals dedicated to working on rail, airport, road, bridge, water and related civil engineering infrastructure projects.

Cost Manager jobs and project locations include being office based in Birmingham, and visiting selected sites and clients across the West Midlands.

Additional Benefits Package and Incentives

• Generous basic salary
• Car allowance
• Private medical insurance
• Health & life insurances
• Personal accident cover
• Generous pension & retirement contributions