Senior Project Controls Engineer - Cost Engineer
- Consultant to Associate Director level
- Warrington with monthly travel to Barrow-in-Furness (Mixture of home, office and client sites)
- Permanent
- Full time with flexible core hours
About this opportunity
Gleeds is a leading global property and construction consultancy. Independent since 1875, we are proud to deliver award-winning projects around the world. We are a Great Place to Work certified employer, with our people at the heart of everything we do.
Climate change and Sustainability is at the top of our agenda, we have been established within the energy sector for the past 40 years and have achieved significant growth in the past years as we contribute to a sector that will have trillions of pounds of investment over the next decade. Our teams are at the forefront of the change, managing life changing projects in Solar, Hydrogen, Nuclear, Renewables and Defence, and we want you to be part of that too.
At Gleeds, our projects take us across the globe, giving you opportunities to travel or to remain at the office base you choose.
Gleeds Energy Project Controls team has grown tremendously over the past 12 months, and we are looking to further grow by recruiting a Senior Project Controls Engineer - Cost Engineer. In this role you will play a critical part in the support and delivery of major, complex projects, particularly within the defence sector.
Your day to day could look involve:
- Maintain and monitor the cost control account
- Report on performance using Earned Value analysis
- Develop and implement accurate technical cost capture methodology
- SAP analysis and collation of cost data
- Establish project budgets from estimates, track committed costs and forecast cost to completion
- Evaluation Change control and the impact on Projects
- Collaborating with Project Managers and stakeholders to provide cost-related insights and recommendations
- Support the assurance of cost reporting
- Production of performance packs for Senior Management
- Trend analysis, KPI and milestone reporting
- Utilise different and appropriate cost techniques in development of benchmarking, audit or independent analysis.
- Provide knowledgeable input into the cost process, guidance and development/coaching of wider cost community.
- Understand other project controls elements such as planning, earned value, progress measurement, change control pre- and post-contract
However, in the consultancy world, no two days are the same! We are a flexible team that support each other’s projects as well as getting in involved with wider business activities and we believe that variety is key to your development.