Project Controls Lead (Cost Control)

Arcadis; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis seeks an experienced Project Controls Lead to join our Major Projects team in the UK. The role focuses on EVM, cost, schedule and risk, delivering clear performance insight to support confident decision-making on high-value programmes.

You will lead cost management and cost engineering activities, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, digital, advisory and design, and help implement innovative digital cost management solutions while promoting best practice across

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cost management, cost engineering or project controls on large infrastructure, transportation and/or buildings projects.
• Strong understanding of cost management processes, governance and control systems on complex projects.
• Experience using industry cost management tools such as Deltek Cobra, Contruent or Oracle.

Responsibilities

• Leading cost management and cost engineering activities on major infrastructure and transportation projects.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, delivering best-practice project controls solutions.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across project management, programme controls, cost and commercial, digital intelligence, advisory, design and engineering.
• Supporting the development and implementation of innovative digital cost management solutions.
• Promoting continuous improvement, standardisation and best practice across project controls functions.
• Contributing to the growth of Arcadis' global Project & Programme Controls community.

Skills

Cost management

Project controls

Earned Value Management

Stakeholder engagement

Client-facing communication

Education

Engineering/Construction degree

APM/RICS/MSP memberships

Tools

Deltek Cobra

Contruent

Oracle

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

At Arcadis, we're delivering some of the UK's most significant capital investment programmes across infrastructure, transportation and buildings. As our portfolio continues to grow, we're looking for an experienced Project Controls Lead to join our Major Projects team and strengthen the controls capability supporting complex, high-value programmes.

This is a hands-on project controls role for someone with a strong understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM) and how cost, schedule and risk come together to provide a clear picture of project performance. You'll work with clients and project teams to establish effective controls, analyse performance, identify trends and provide the insight needed to support confident decision-making.

You’ll bring a solid grounding in schedule and risk management, alongside cost control, and ideally experience implementing or improving project controls systems, processes and reporting. You'll have the opportunity to support programmes throughout their lifecycle, helping clients build robust, consistent and effective controls environments.

Role accountabilities:

• Leading cost management and cost engineering activities on major infrastructure and transportation projects.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, delivering best-practice project controls solutions.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across project management, programme controls, cost and commercial, digital intelligence, advisory, design and engineering.
• Supporting the development and implementation of innovative digital cost management solutions.
• Promoting continuous improvement, standardisation and best practice across project controls functions.
• Contributing to the growth of Arcadis' global Project & Programme Controls community.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven experience in cost management, cost engineering or project controls within infrastructure, transportation and/or buildings sectors.
• Strong understanding of cost management processes, governance and control systems on complex projects.
• Experience using industry cost management tools such as Deltek Cobra, Contruent, Oracle or similar platforms.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and client-facing communication skills.
• Understanding of how cost management integrates with planning, risk, scope management and wider project controls disciplines.
• Experience working across multiple stages of the project lifecycle.
• Degree or diploma in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
• Professional qualifications or memberships such as APM, RICS, ICEC, MSP or similar

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.