Cost Manager - Intermediate or Senior Level

A leading national consultancy in Milton Keynes has openings for a Cost Manager or Senior Cost Manager to join their growing team

Working on a range of industry-leading schemes, they operate within a range of sectors, including education, healthcare, leisure, and retail. The majority of their workload is refurbishment, and they are most prominent in the retail sector

Lots of benefits:

* 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays.

* 6% pension

* All expenses covered for work purposes

* Hybrid working - 2-3 days office & home

* 8.30 to 5 - again flexible - you can start earlier/ finish earlier if you prefer

* Private health insurance and can add your family

* Open plan office

* Informal working environment

* Trust people - manage your workload

* Casual dress

* Regular social events

* Plenty of room to progress

* RICS support

The roles

You will be joining an established team and will enjoy working in a collaborative environment in a modern, open-plan office.

You will focus on work for 1 large client undertaking refurbishment and fit out works, and alongside this, could be looking after improvement works on education schemes, such as re-roofing works, fire upgrades, etc.

Office/home-based in the main, out seeing clients roughly once a week.

Job Objectives:

* Establishing friendly, professional relationships with clients and being an extension of their team

* Subcontractor tendering and reviewing costs.

* Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with the budget.

* Proactively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow, and ensuring that applications are made correctly and promptly.

* Collaborating with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.

* Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed.

The right person

You will either have experience working as a Cost Manager or a Quantity Surveyor.

Main contractor or consultancy experience

Refurbishment experience is key (walls, ceilings, floors, M & E)

You will be used to working at pace on fast turnaround projects

Cost Manager / Cost Management / Quantity Surveyor