Senior Cost Manager - Manufacturing North West

Poutrix; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Cost Consultant to join their Industrial Manufacturing Cost Management team in Manchester. The role involves overseeing cost management for high-profile projects within the industrial manufacturing sector, ensuring respectful collaboration, stakeholder management, and delivering projects on time. Candidates should demonstrate MRICS qualification along with experience in supervising complex projects from inception to completion.

Qualifications

• Experience on large complex construction projects within the industrial manufacturing sector.
• Strong understanding of cost drivers and value.
• Experience mentoring junior colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional Quantity Surveying and Cost Management services.
• Work on cost estimates and procurement processes.
• Manage contract proposals and contractor agreements.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Innovation in Service Delivery

Cost Management

Education

MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor

Tools

Digital Cost Management

CostX

5D BIM

Benchmarking tools

Job description

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

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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:

We're excited to be growing our Industrial Manufacturing Cost Management team. We are looking for an experienced Senior Cost Consultant to join us delivering high-profile manufacturing facilities for market leading global clients.

As part of our Cost Management team, you'll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring they're delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working.

We work with our clients around the world to create, support, and enhance smart, safe and sustainable places where people live, work, learn and thrive. Places impact on the quality of people's lives. Whether new homes, shops, workplaces, schools and hospitals, manufacturing, research and development facilities, or data and distribution centres. People and communities thrive when the spaces in which they live, work, move and play are designed and managed in a way that best meets their needs.

Role accountabilities:

In this role, you'll provide professional Quantity Surveying and Cost Management services to high-profile clients working on large industrial buildings and distribution centres across the UK & Europe.

You'll have the opportunity to work on projects from inception through to completion. Day-to-day activities range from working on cost estimates/feasibilities, benchmarking and the procurement process to reviewing and agreeing contractor proposals and contract management.

You'll be supported to develop your career within a collaborative team environment, and you'll have the opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team who are passionate about delivery an excellent service and positive outcomes for our clients.

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable with sound commercial knowledge and come to us with:

• MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor
• A good understanding of key drivers of cost and value
• Passionate about driving innovation in service and delivering exceptional results
• Experience working on large complex construction projects within the industrial manufacturing sector, or from within other heavy MEP sectors
• Experience taking projects from inception to completion
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build good client relationships
• Experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills.
• Experience with Digital Cost Management and CostX, 5D BIM and Benchmarking tools

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.

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