Nuclear Cost Engineer - Hybrid Reading Contract

American Society of Civil Engineers; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

The American Society of Civil Engineers is seeking an experienced Cost Engineer to join a major UK nuclear project near Reading. This contract role focuses on developing, managing, and reporting project costs with robust financial control throughout the lifecycle.

The position offers hybrid work with three days on site and two days remote. Key responsibilities include creating budgets, control accounts, and WBS dictionaries; monitoring accruals and forecasts; managing cost risk, change control,

Qualifications

• Significant experience in cost engineering, project controls, or quantity surveying within a complex engineering, construction, infrastructure, defence, or nuclear environment.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, cost control, forecasting, change management, and earned value analysis.
• Experience across the full project lifecycle from bid phase through to project close-out.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain project baseline budgets, Control Account Plans, Responsibility Assignment Matrices, and WBS dictionaries.
• Monitor, control, and validate project accruals, commitments, resource forecasts, and financial data.
• Manage cost risk budgets, contingency drawdown, and support wider project risk management activities.
• Control financial change management, ensuring alignment with contractual and business requirements.
• Produce internal and external cost reports, including Earned Value Management (EVM) and variance analysis.
• Maintain Estimates at Completion (EACs), support forecasting activities, and provide financial performance insights to project stakeholders.

Skills

Cost engineering

Project controls

Quantity surveying

Budgeting

Forecasting

Earned Value Analysis

Education

HNC in Cost Engineering or Quantity Surveying

Job description

The American Society of Civil Engineers is seeking an experienced Cost Engineer to join a major UK nuclear project near Reading. This contract role focuses on developing, managing, and reporting project costs with robust financial control throughout the lifecycle.

The position offers hybrid work with three days on site and two days remote. Key responsibilities include creating budgets, control accounts, and WBS dictionaries; monitoring accruals and forecasts; managing cost risk, change control,