Overview
Cost Manager – A leading national consultancy in Milton Keynes has openings for a Cost Manager to join their growing team. Working on a range of industry-leading schemes, they operate within education, healthcare, leisure, and retail sectors. The majority of their workload is refurbishment, and they are most prominent in the retail sector.
Benefits
* 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
* 6% pension.
* All expenses covered for work purposes.
* Hybrid working – 2-3 days in the office and at home.
* 8:30 to 5:00, flexible start/finish if preferred.
* Private health insurance and option to add your family.
* Open plan office.
* Informal working environment.
* Trust people to manage your workload.
* Casual dress.
* Regular social events.
* Plenty of room to progress.
* RICS support.
The role
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 one 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 and fire upgrades. Office/home-based in the main, with client visits 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
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