Job Title: Assistant Cost Engineer
Location: Glasgow + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: £32, - £43, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Assistant Cost Engineer at our Glasgow site.
The role
As an Assistant Cost Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is your opportunity to become part of a leading nuclear services company, and to support the costs portfolio for high priority infrastructure upgrade projects. Playing a critical role in ensuring that our projects are completed successfully, on time, and within budget, whilst implementing best practices.
Day to day, you’ll secure required resources and use formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes, as well as managing projects to ensure on-time completion according to specifications and within budgeted costs. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders granting you great exposure to the wider business and various opportunities across Cavendish Nuclear and Babcock, all whilst working in our brand new office in central Glasgow.
1. Responsible for the co-ordination and collation of all project cost data for the joint venture.
2. Responsible for the production of the joint venture Revenue and Cost Reports.
3. Provide forward looking trends and variance analysis information identifying expected project cost performance and comparisons against applicable project performance targets.
4. Facilitates re-forecasting exercises with the Project Team to ensure accurate forecasting.
5. Ensuring cost reporting alignment with the Project WBS.
6. Assist with Monthly Billing.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 - 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 - 4 days working from home.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential experience of the Assistant Cost Engineer:
7. Experienced in cost engineering
8. Sound knowledge of recognised project management and controls principles including Earned Value Management
9. Good knowledge of the uses of commercial scheduling and estimating software
10. Stakeholder engagement
11. NEC Contract experience (desirable)
Qualifications for the Assistant Cost Engineer:
12. University degree or equivalent
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at .
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
20. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
21. Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
22. Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer.
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of