Our Client, a leading engineering and design consultancy, is seeking a Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor to join their team in Belfast.

Experience Required for Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor:

– A Cost Management or Quantity Surveying Qualification or similar.

– Minimum of three years post graduate experience.

– Commercial, quantity surveying, and/or finance skills, with working knowledge of the construction industry, and experience of working with NEC form of contract.

– Technical experience in Cost Management services across complex infrastructure.

– An understanding of industry benchmarks / best practices, Cost and Work Breakdown Structures, and methods of measurements.

– Growing network within the infrastructure sector.

– An aptitude to apply innovation, technical excellence, and exceptional service delivery. – Experience of monitoring, analysing, and controlling cost performance against set targets.

– Examples of identifying/applying cost efficient solutions.

– Awareness of the challenges and opportunities in the industry. – Awareness of performance measurement of projects using Earned Value Management (EVM) and similar techniques.

Job Responsibilities:

– Reporting into the Head of Cost Management leadership team, you will be a member of the Project Controls management team responsible for building long term, sustainable team relationships with both members of our own organisation, and wider Client base.

– Support our Cost Management capability including development and use of Power-BI, PRISM, Oracle, Deltek, Ecosys and other Cost Management related software.

– Engage our community of practice and support technical excellence, service innovation and development of our benchmarking capabilities.

– Deliver excellent client service on our commissions through quality assurance and regular client care.

– Support and lead your teams on project / technical delivery.

– Support with delivering the strategy for the Cost Management Service including identifying continuous development.

– Deliver an exceptional cost management service for multiple stakeholders.

– Identify opportunities for growth, linked to the Complex Infrastructure business strategy.

– Support with the Cost Management business development activity.

– Opportunities to Support Key Account Management activities.

– Engagement and understanding of internal business processes.

– Support key accounts to maximise our impact

– Having responsibility, under minimum supervision, delivering portfolios and projects.

– Supporting with technical advice to different stakeholders.

– Competence in project commercial accountability.

– Have a developing knowledge of legal and technical matters relevant to the work you do, and the law of the region or country in which you practice.

– Mentor and develop Assistant Cost Managers and Cost Managers .

– Actively engaging within a project delivery environment