Cost Engineer: Birmingham
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Location
Birmingham
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
Inside IR35
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Contact:
Daniel Brokenshire
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Contact email:
Daniel.Brokenshire@talascendint.com
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Job ref:
BBBH92807_1624953249
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Published:
over 2 years ago
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Duration:
12 months
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Expiry date:
2021-07-29
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Startdate:
Asap
Job Purpose
Develops summary and detailed estimates for the estimating process across the company, providing accurate and robust figures to be used by internal and external stakeholders.
Takes a lead role in estimate reviews and presentations and provides and supports data and cost analysis
Accountabilities
Key functions and responsibilities of the role:
- Deliver estimates and provide input for detailed/bottom -up forecasting outturns against benchmarks, norms and current progress.
- Incorporates best practice from industry estimating and related controls services to support consistent best in class approaches and decision making.
- Provide support to the development of programme wide models including (amongst others) indirect costs, whole life, and prelims.
- Responsible for reviewing estimates from consultants and provides recommendation on OLE systems costs.
Knowledge, Skills, Experience
- Degree in engineering, construction management, business management or related field
- Knowledge of OLE systems, suppliers, products and costs.
- Extensive knowledge of capital cost estimating
- Demonstrated ability to readily analyse estimate data and correlate to other projects and to conceptualize the total project scope.
- Experience (minimum (8-12 Years) working with multiple estimating disciplines and a matrix organization including Construction, Engineering, Project Controls, Procurement, Contracts and Commissioning to collect all necessary data on scope and quantities to prepare accurate estimates
- Must demonstrate advanced level of expertise in the use of MS Word, PowerPoint, Power BI and Excel, typically acquired through multiple years of experience.
- Knowledge of engineering and/or construction management.