Cost Consultant

7 months ago


Glasgow, United Kingdom Arcadis Full time

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

**Role description**:
We are seeking to appoint an ambitious Project Cost Consultant to join our Property team in the Glasgow or Edinburgh office delivering significant property schemes throughout Scotland and the North of England. Ideally you will be recently RICS qualified or on your route to do so

Our team is involved in delivering some of the regions largest and most exciting Buildings projects in the residential, commercial office and sports and leisure sectors ranging from £20m - £1bn + in value. We have a fantastic pipeline which we are recruiting for, and these projects will allow you to grow as an individual and provide you with the opportunity to work on the best projects and industry leading Clients in the region.

Working with an established and highly successful team, your role will be to provide competent and professional quantity surveying support on a number of our large schemes, plus the opportunity of leading you own schemes. You will be working closely with Senior Partners and Directors of the business and will get great exposure to future development opportunities.

This role is for flexible working, with an encouraged working pattern of between the office and home to allow collaboration with the team.

**Role accountabilities**:

- Assisting on feasibility studies
- Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
- Tendering and procuring of construction works including providing procurement advice to Clients
- Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes
- Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place
- Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Inputting into value engineering
- Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
- Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
- Strong knowledge of the JCT Contracts

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- RICS accredited surveyor or approaching final assessment
- Commercial experience on major building projects £1m-10m+ in value
- Demonstration of self-management and prioritisation skills with the ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to influence and lead stakeholders and third parties
- Capable of working with the project lead in taking a project through from inception to completion

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.


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