Job Title: Cost Specialist
Location: Warrington, Cheshire or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the financial heartbeat of critical national projects
At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Cost Specialist at Warrington, Cheshire or Bristol.
The role
As a Cost Specialist, you play a vital role in ensuring complex engineering and defence projects are delivered responsibly, predictably and sustainably. Your work underpins confident decision-making, supports project managers, and helps safeguard national infrastructure and energy security.
You will work 37 hours per week, with flexibility available across a five-day working week, and the role is based across Warrington, Cheshire or Bristol, attending site three days per week.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Managing budgets and forecasts for allocated project and programme work packages.
2. Assessing the accuracy, completeness and substantiation of supplier and subcontractor invoices.
3. Highlighting cost movements, risks and key variances with clear, evidence‑based insights.
4. Supporting project managers with resource demand planning and cost performance reporting.
5. Using cost and financial systems to maintain robust, auditable cost control information.
Essential experience of the Cost Specialist:
6. Proven experience in budgeting and cost forecasting within a project or programme environment.
7. Hands‑on experience working with cost control, project controls or accounting disciplines.
8. Strong capability using financial and cost management systems, such as SAP, Quadrant and Microsoft Excel.
9. Experience supporting project managers or delivery teams with financial insight and reporting.
Qualifications for the Cost Specialist:
10. D HNC (or equivalent) in cost engineering, quantity surveying, finance or accounting.
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
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
19. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish
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