Cost Engineer

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At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:

This opportunity will allow the successful candidate to work within an integrated project controls team helping to deliver an annual £500m programme of nuclear work. The projects combine both new build and decommissioning within a structured collaborative environment working with colleagues who are focused on innovative solutions and teamwork where the focus is on delivery of programme outputs.

Role accountabilities:

• Accountable to the project manager for service and to the Function Lead.
• To participate in project reviews and audits and conduct self-assessments of the Cost Engineering arrangements to ensure compliance is achieved with company procedures;
• Support the preparation of project change controls;
• Work with the project team to set out and implement cost capture requirements, including ensuring appropriate Work Orders (WO’s) are in place, structure of requisitions, aligning Purchase Order (PO) structure with WO’s and ensuring sub contract data provided can be used to monitor and control costs;
• Understand the contract project controls requirements and seek to improve if required. Align Purchase Orders with CBS to give clarity of Cost Performance Indices at an appropriate level within the Project;
• Manage time bookings by ensuring that correct WO codes are available, review and delete as appropriate and authorise creation of new charge codes following approval of baseline and funding changes;
• Tracking manpower productivity and analysing time booked to projects including resource usage vs. planned, resource constraints, etc. and make any relevant recommendations to the Project Manager;
• Accurately apply charging practices to ensure costs are captured correctly in line with estimates and ensure financial data reported reflects a ‘true and fair’ view (e.g. to ensure that Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP) and BCWP reflects a complete picture at any point in time);
• Perform post-contract cost activities where required, e.g.:- Assess the amount due at each assessment date with or without an application from the contractor on contracts where no quantity surveyor available, raise payment certificate and Service Entry Notifications (SEN’s), assess Compensation Events (CE) and impact of Early Warnings (EW), review and assess Contract close out and instigate Defined Cost Audits as and when required (where in place, use Contract Event Management And Reporting tool (CEMAR) for all correspondence and to manage data.
• Validate and interrogate supply chain data to assist in accurate cost forecasting and trending and work with the supply chain to understand variances, drive cost accuracy and timely and accurate reporting;
• Work closely with Contractor assessing and tracking contractor expenditure against progress;
• Provide reliable & accurate Estimate to Completion (ETC) and Expenditure (ACWP) based on Value of Work Done;
• Conduct full and detailed Cost Performance Index (CPI) & Cost Variance (CV) analysis and subsequent root cause analysis, followed by provision of narrative, recommendations & recovery plans;
• Responsible for monthly Estimate at Completion (EAC) reviews and liaise closely with Project Manager and Programmes to inform of forecast and any changes;
• Monitor contingency requirements and liaise with Project Team regarding contingency management
• Provide trended data to the Project Manager based on performance trends to date and emerging trends.
• Participate and contributing to Value Engineering Studies, including capture of project value engineering records and maximise the subsequent efficiency savings proposed, including provision of auditable background evidence.
• Quantify cost implications of emergent / additional project work and feed into relevant documentation (e.g. change control documentation);
• Ensure regular review of the project trend and issue logs. Support in the preparation of project Baseline Change Proposals (BCP), Sanction proposals and supporting estimate information including underpinning, Basis of Estimate (BoE) etc. Ensure information is routed into site / unit / project change control records;
• Use estimate data to load budgets into baseline;
• Establish the Project CBS and participate in the preparation of cost studies utilising historical data. Developing benchmarking information to meet specific needs.
• Seek out and analyse relevant current and historical data to support robust cost estimating of activities;
• Support colleague’s learning and development through knowledge sharing, task instruction etc.
• Contribute to the effective development and delivery of training within own area of specialism.
• Provision of knowledge transfer and training and development of Magnox staff from the Contract.
• The duties/responsibilities defined above may be supplemented by further duties as defined by the relevant Functional Leads
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience working as a Cost Engineer, Project Controls Engineer, Quantity Surveyor or Project / Management Accountant
• Demonstrable experience of the NEC contract suite
• Construction or Engineering background.
• Experience working as part of an integrated delivery team.
  
  

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

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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