Cost Manager
A national leading consultancy in Milton Keynes have an opening for both a Cost Manger 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
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.
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.
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
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