Cost Engineer

Key Accountabilities

Key Responsibilities

• 📊 Partner with Project Managers to develop accurate and informed project forecasts across both the financial year and full project lifecycle.
• 💰 Consolidate accruals and provide financial reporting to the Client Finance Department on behalf of Project Managers.
• 📅 Collaborate closely with Project Planners to ensure forecasts are aligned with project schedules and delivery programmes.
• 📈 Monitor and track project costs and forecasts, ensuring ongoing affordability and budget compliance.
• 📑 Produce timely and accurate month-end cost reports, maintaining data across relevant financial systems.
• 🤝 Attend monthly supplier project meetings and undertake associated contract administration activities through CEMAR.
• 📝 Raise purchase and contract requisitions, and process invoice receipts within internal procurement systems when required.
• ✅ Review and validate invoices and valuations, providing guidance to Project Managers to resolve any financial queries.
• 🔄 Monitor expenditure against approved changes and actively participate in Change Control and Early Warning Notice (EWN) meetings.

🎯 Essential Skills & Experience

• 💬 Strong ability to communicate cost, financial, and project performance information clearly to Project Managers, stakeholders, and peers.
• 📊 Demonstrable experience in cost engineering, cost control, forecasting, and cost analysis.
• 🤝 Experience working within a Project Controls environment, with a clear understanding of the relationship between cost forecasting and project schedules.
• 🔍 Highly organised and detail-oriented, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 📑 Excellent reporting, presentation, and data interpretation capabilities.
• 🎓 Educated to Diploma level or equivalent.
• 📈 Ideally possesses 2+ years' experience in cost management, project controls, or a related discipline.

⭐ Desirable Skills & Experience

• 🎓 Diploma-level qualification or higher.
• 🏅 Relevant professional membership (or actively working towards accreditation).
• 📊 Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial analysis and reporting.
• 📋 Experience using CEMAR for contract administration and commercial management.
• 📖 Knowledge and practical experience of NEC contracts is highly desirable.

 

Why Join the Switchers Community?

🔹A dynamic career management policy to enable our employees to progress through our five business lines: operations, project, technical, sales and support functions

🔹Provide opportunities to work on exciting, global projects

🔹Access to an employee assistance programme with free mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources and a confidential support line available 24/7 via phone or text

🔹Discount vouchers for days out and restaurants, eye test and glasses vouchers, cycle to work scheme, free flu jabs

🔹Enhanced sick pay

Staff or Umbrella contractor role

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Hybrid role with 3 days/week in Glasgow Client office

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