Practitioner Cost Engineer

Description

• Ensure all cost and contract transactions on a project are understood and managed in an appropriate way.
• Challenge cost variances against the baseline plan with individual task leaders/contractors and/or outside stakeholder management as necessary to enable mitigation.
• Understand the inter-relationship between time cost and commercial aspects of the project life cycle.
• Control, monitor, analyse and report cost related aspects for designated projects within a Portfolio.
• Liaise with Project team members and contractors with regards to progress and cost forecasting.
• Continually monitor Project Risk and Change status to maintain current forecast.
• Monitor, control and analyse the project cost information, identify variances, and bring these to the attention of the Project Manager with possible alternatives. Prepare specific reports to facilitate challenge and analysis to meet the project’s specific needs.

Requirements

• Experienced in the use of Finance and Project software.
• Working knowledge of Primavera
• Working knowledge of relevant Health and Safety legislation.
• Experience across whole project and programme lifecycle. (e.g., Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation/Commissioning processes).
• Excellent MS Office skills and well versed in the preparation of reports and information using packages such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Proficient in the interpretation of Earned Value Analysis.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance