One The UK's leading engineering companies is looking for a senior cost engineer to join there team on one of the most exciting projects in the atomic industry. Its offering long term contracts and attractive rates so if you want to get involved with such a cutting edge project please do read on.

Job Role - Senior Cost Engineer

Location - Reading (2/3 days a week)

Contract Length - 18 Months

Pay Rates - £58.77 hour Umbrella

Minimum Requirements/Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the preparation, monitoring and control of forecasts and budgets for specified projects, including change control.
• Support system interrogation and performance measurement of actual expenditure and performance, including accruals where necessary.
• Provide input to cost reports, including trend analysis and early warnings as necessary
• Support detailed SPI, CPI variance analysis and root cause analysis, including input to the narrative, recommendations & recovery planning in accordance with monthly reporting timescales.
• Support the creation of the Project Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) and assist the preparation of cost studies utilising historical data. Providing data for benchmarking information to meet specific needs.
• Support trended data to assist the Project Manager based on performance to date and seek emerging trends to aid recommendations.
• Review manpower productivity and time bookings to projects including resource usage vs. planned, identify resource constraints, etc. and support recommendations to the Project Manager.

Key Skills

• Project based cost engineering experience
• NEC3/ NEC4 Contract experience
• Able to manipulate data
• Understands schedules
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel
• Experience of writing reports and analysing figures.

This role is on a heavily regulated site and is therefore will require certain levels of clearance so please bear this in mind when applying.

If you're keen on this role please do give me a call on 02393 876037 or email me at theo.king@carringtonwest.com