Senior Cost Consultant / Cost Engineer - Defence Consultancy
Salary - £45K-£65K negotiable plus many benefits including bonus, medical, pension.
Location - Bristol
Our client is a successful professional services and technology partner to global defence, energy, space, maritime, and intelligence & communications programmes.
As a Cost Consultant, you will be delivering technical consulting projects within the defence sector. You will provide detailed analysis of data and costs to assist your client’s industry in making better decisions. This may include working in customer teams to support procurement decisions with analytical thinking and outcomes, modelling of operational performance and sustainment, or historical analysis to support learning lessons from previous operations.
Responsibilities for Senior Cost Engineer Consultant will include:
* Provide detailed analysis to support key decisions within the project teams.
* Identify, bid for, and win future work within your client’s industry.
* Build new relationships and maintain relationships with current customers.
* Use and develop problem structuring methods and a variety of tools and techniques, including novel approaches where required.
* Work organically in customer teams to deliver rapid turn-around analysis or use one of the company’s offices as a team hub from which to plan and deliver tasks.
Essential Requirements for the role of Senior Cost Consultant / Cost Engineer:
* Proven experience in a Cost Engineering or Analyst role within a P3M environment.
* Educated to degree level or equivalent with a professional qualification (e.g. CCEA, CPCostE, CEng).
* Experience working in the defence sector/military.
* Good knowledge of statistics in support of parametric modelling, sampling, and risk analysis.
* Knowledge of statistical software packages such as 'R’.
* Use logical and analytical thinking to solve complex problems for the client.
* Strong Microsoft Excel skills to support analysis of data.
* Experience in analysing project data (cost/risk/schedule).
* Work in a client’s team to influence strategic decision makers while delivering practical solutions.
* Be articulate with good presentation and written communication skills.
* Be dependable, committed, and have a genuine enthusiasm to contribute to the growth of a successful business.
* Understanding of the military environment and MOD management structures, including knowledge of MOD approvals, the MOD acquisition cycle, and Defence lines of Development.
* Experience of identifying, bidding, and winning future work.
* Candidates from a technical consultancy background working within the MOD sector.
* Ability to travel to client sites across the UK as required.
Other requirements - Candidates must have the existing right to live and work in the UK.
Candidates also need to hold current SC Clearance or be willing and eligible to undergo a security check (SC level).
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