Cost Manager
A national leading consultancy in Milton Keynes have an opening for both a Cost Manager and a Senior Cost Manager to join their team.
Working on a range of industry leading schemes, they operate within a range of sectors, including education, healthcare, leisure, retail and residential. The majority of their workload is refurbishment, and they are most prominent in the retail sector
You will take on a project from initial feasibility, agree contract sums, manage delivery, change control, valuations, agree final accounts. Initial retail projects range in value from £40K to over £2m.
Lots of benefits:
* £40-65,000 DOE
* 27 days holiday plus bank holidays.
* 6% pension
* All expenses covered for work purposes
* Hybrid working - 2-3 days office & home
* 8.30 to 5 - again flexible - you can start earlier/ finish earlier if you prefer
* Private health insurance and can add your family
* Open plan office
* Informal working environment
* Trust people - manage your own workload
* Casual dress
* Regular social events
* Plenty of room to progress
* RICS support
The role - Cost Manager
You will be joining a team of 19 and will enjoy working in a collaborative working environment in a modern, open plan office.
You will focus on works for 1 large client undertaking refurbishment and fit out works, and alongside this, will looking after condition improvement works on education schemes, such as re-roofing works, fire upgrades, etc.
Office based in the main, out seeing clients roughly once a week.
Job Objectives:
* Establishing friendly, professional relationships with clients and be an extension of their team
* Subcontractor tendering and reviewing costs.
* Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget.
* Pro-actively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow and ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
* Collaborating with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
* Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed.
The right person. Cost Manager
You will either be an experienced Cost Manager, or a Quantity Surveyor.
Main contractor or consultancy experience
Refurbishment experience is key (walls, ceilings, floors, M & E)
You will used to working at pace on fast turnaround projects
Cost Manager / Cost Management / Quantity Surveyor / Estimator