Senior Cost Manager (Water and Environment Infrastructure)

AECOM; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Senior Cost Manager to join our Buildings + Places Infrastructure team across the South and Southwest. You will manage cost from inception through to completion on major infrastructure projects, working with clients like Southwest Water and the Environment Agency.

We welcome professionals with MRICS status, a degree in Quantity Surveying, and extensive experience in cost management within infrastructure.

Qualifications

• MRICS qualification or working towards MRICS.
• Experience in cost management on large infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of NEC4 contracts, especially PSC and ECC.
• Experience working in infrastructure, water or environment sectors.
• Experience in working within client organisations or via secondment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver all aspects of cost management from inception to completion, coordinating with peers, directors and clients.
• Support growth and development of team members on technically complex projects.
• Maintain relationships with clients and raise the firm’s profile as a premium service provider.
• Develop marketing opportunities and assist Directors/BD in pursuing new leads.

Skills

MRICS

Cost management

Infrastructure projects

NEC4 contracts

Client liaison

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

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.

Are you a talented and ambitious Senior Cost Manager based in the Southwest or along the South coast looking to work on exciting infrastructure projects that can change the world, projects that are always more complex and innovative than the last?

We are looking for Cost Managers to support our exciting growth plans, working with our key infrastructure clients in the South and Southwest, particularly in the water and environment sectors, supporting the successful delivery of their capital projects and programmes of work. You will be joining an established team of like-minded experts that have a passion for innovation and delivering cutting edge solutions.

Here’s what you’ll do

As a Senior Cost Manager within our Buildings & Places Infrastructure team, you will provide a comprehensive, accurate and value driven service for large, high profile and exciting key clients within the water sector, such as Southwest Water and the Environment Agency.

The role will cover all aspects of cost management throughout the whole project lifecycle from initial inception / business case through to completion / commissioning. The role also provides the opportunity to support the growth of the business and management/development of team members.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Deliver all aspects of cost management from inception of a project through to completion, working with peers and Directors, client and others as required; Including (but not limited to) feasibility estimates, cost planning (presenting with no supervision), contract procurement, tender documentation, value engineering and commercial awareness, fee generation, risk management, dispute resolution, post contract management (competent in cost reporting), agreement of final accounts.
• Achieve the highest standards of professional competence and to demonstrate this ability in all dealings with clients and professional contacts, reinforcing the profile of the company.
• Help drive performance standards and technical excellence through expert communication and effective use of the performance management process and AECOM technical practice networks.
• Maintain and develop good relationships with clients, take every opportunity to uphold and increase the profile of the firm as a provider of professional, premium quality services to the construction industry.
• Actively support the internal team and support more junior staff on technically complex projects.
• Develop marketing opportunities and where appropriate bring to the attention of Directors and the Business Development Department, in order that they may assist in following up potential leads enabling the development of new business.

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.

Why not give our AECOM Buildings + Places page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see first hand the difference we're making in the industry!

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Degree in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent).
• Accredited MRICS (or working towards membership)
• Experience in the Cost Management/Quantity Surveying field, ideally working on large scale infrastructure projects.
• Good working knowledge of NEC4 suite of contracts, particularly the Professional Services Contract (PSC) and Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC)
• Proven and relevant experienced gained working in an infrastructure environment, ideally focused on projects within the water and or environment sectors.
• Experience of undertaking cost/commercial management as part of integrated, multi-organisation, collaborative teams
• Experience of working within a client organization, either directly or through a colocation/secondment arrangement would be of benefit.

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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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 a Disability Confident Employer 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 [emailprotected] if you would like to apply through the DisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.

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