Senior Cost Manager

Website AdvanceTRS Advance Training and Recruitment Services

Technical recruiters for the built environment

Senior Cost Manager

Location: Sunbury

Contract Duration: Long-term

Job Description:

We have a full-time role for a Senior Cost Manager on a major project in the oil, gas, and energy sector. The role is based in Sunbury on Thames, working full time at the location. Expensed periodic travel to Paris and other site locations will be required.

Sector Knowledge:

  • Power & Chemical

Discipline Knowledge:

  • Civil, Mechanical, Pipework, Electrical, Instrumentation, Access, Insulation, Painting within the Industrial sector (power, chemical, oil, gas, etc.)

Experience:

  • 10+ years of experience, with more than 5 years as a Senior Cost Manager on major capital projects (several hundred million to over a billion pounds)
  • Background in Power/ Chemical/ Oil and Gas
  • Civil, Mechanical and Electrical knowledge

Responsibilities:
  • Extensive cost management experience, ideally from a client-side perspective, supporting project controls and contract management.
  • Offering cost-related insights for change management processes.
  • Negotiating rates and prices with contractors.
  • Assessing the value of completed work, including handling valuations, applications, and invoices.
  • Ensuring adherence to change management procedures.
  • Determining the value of work for fixed price and target cost schemes.
  • Reviewing and verifying costs in accordance with the schedule of cost components.
  • Validating contractors’ estimates and auditing costs as per the contract.
  • Leading cost reviews and conducting meetings with contractors on behalf of the client.

Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK as well as the ability to travel to Paris occasionally.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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