Senior Cost Manager (Construction Consultancy)

Aecom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm in Birmingham is looking for a Senior Cost Manager to lead projects throughout their lifecycle. In this role, you'll manage cost estimates, plans, and mentor junior staff while establishing strong client relationships. Ideal candidates will hold a degree in Quantity Surveying or Cost Management and be chartered with RICS. This position offers a hybrid working model, promoting work-life balance and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or Cost Management.
• Professional qualification with RICS is essential.
• Proven experience in Cost Management over project lifecycles.
• Ability to assess cost, value, and risk for clients.
• Excellent IT skills, familiarity with digital tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from inception to completion in Cost Management.
• Mentor and manage junior staff and apprentices.
• Produce cost estimates, plans and manage valuations.
• Ensure efficient and timely project delivery to client satisfaction.
• Develop client relationships as a key project interface.

Skills

Cost Management expertise

Client advising

Digital tools proficiency

Relationship building

Education

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management

Chartered Status with RICS

Tools

Cost planning software

Digital measurement tools

Job description

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Our Birmingham Cost Management team continues to grow, with specific growth demand within the Commercial, Industrial and Logistics, Residential and Education markets where we have successfully secured positions with many high‑profile clients and some key local projects and programs in the industry. As a direct result of this growth, we are currently seeking an Senior Cost Manager to join our Birmingham team.

You will be expected to work as part of an integrated team, with the role of Senior Cost Manager covering the whole project lifecycle from initial inception and business case development, through the design process, procurement process, site delivery, commissioning phase and defects management.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Provide effective support, mentoring and line management to Project Surveyors / Cost Managers, Graduates and Apprentices.
• Leading projects from a Cost Management perspective from inception to completion.
• Production of cost estimates, cost plans, procurement and tendering advice, through to post‑contract delivery of valuations, change control, reporting and final account.
• Taking responsibility for the delivery of projects and managing support teams.
• Ensures commissions are managed and completed efficiently, on time and to the client’s satisfaction.
• Develops strong reciprocal relationships with clients and members of the project team.
• Be an interface with AECOM clients (new and existing).

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Come grow with us.

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you will enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work‑life balance

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Degree Qualified – BSc or MSc – in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management.
• Professional Qualified – Chartered Status with the RICS.
• Proven experience in Cost Management providing a full spectrum of deliverables throughout projects.
• Proven ability to advise clients and design teams on cost, value and risk, not just cost in isolation.
• Excellent IT Skills and the ability to utilise digital measurement, cost planning and tender documentation tools shall be essential.
• Experience of project types/sizes/sectors within our active sectors in the UK – i.e. Commercial, Industrial and Logistics, Residential, Higher Education and Mixed Use.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public‑ and private‑sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry‑leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are aDisabilityConfidentEmployer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the DisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.