Cost Efficiency

6 months ago


Moor Row, United Kingdom Jacobs Full time

**Location**: Moor Row, GB
**Category**: Administration
**Job ID**: EST0001VX

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay, free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**About the Opportunity**

Jacobs are recruiting a Cost Efficiency & Avoidance (CE&A) Management lead (within the Project Controls discipline area) to join our Nuclear Power Programmes framework.Principal accountabilities:

- A Cost Efficiency & Avoidance (CE&A) Management lead will be established on the project to create a process that drives identification of areas where the Project could save or avoid expenditure.
- The process will be co-ordinated through the CE&A lead but Programme Directors, Project Managers and the Supply Chain will be empowered and accountable for identification and delivery of CE&A ideas.
- This process will help instil a ‘Value for Money’ culture across the programme and embed checks in other processes.
- The Cost Management team will be accountable for ensuring CE&A items are aligned to the reported Cost Forecast
- Through the capturing of Cost Avoidance items, the Project will be able to record and log the value of instilling this culture which would normally not be recorded, and the impact lost

**Here’s what you’ll need**:

- Educated to Degree level (preferable) and Member of Professional body (APM)
- Significant experience working within a similar position in a large project delivery environment, e.g. Capital New build projects, major civil projects
- To be able to clearly demonstrate understanding of contract requirements NEC3/GC works
- Expert systems knowledge of computerised project and document control and reporting systems, with emphasis on scheduling, cost monitoring and earned value analysis using Primavera P6
- Experience in programme/project controls for complex programmes or similar project portfolios
- Previous experience working in a similar Contractor-facing role with responsibilities requiring direct Contractor interface
- Worked in a client-facing role with responsibilities requiring direct client/stakeholder engagement
- Broad spectrum of skills in the project controls environment with a PMCM or EPC experience base

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. **Find out more about life at Jacobs.**

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s - **find out more about our employee networks here.


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