Cost Estimator

1 month ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Arcadis Human Resources Limited Full time
Job Title: Cost Consultant

At Arcadis, we're committed to delivering sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. As a Cost Consultant, you'll play a crucial role in helping us achieve this goal.

Job Summary:

We're seeking a highly skilled Cost Consultant to join our team. In this role, you'll be responsible for generating comprehensive project cost estimates, reports, and presentations for our clients. You'll work closely with our cost estimating team to develop cost estimates for roads and highways works, from maintenance and renewal operational projects to major highways infrastructure investments.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage the delivery of cost management in small/medium infrastructure developments or significant components of larger cost management assignments.
  • Deliver your scope of work in line with various controls, and will have significant technical knowledge and experience in your field.
  • Independently prepare bottom-up and top-down cost estimates from plans/drawings and documents from conceptual stage to final design documents and prepare written basis of estimate reports associated with the estimates.
  • Liaise with, and report updates to external contractors, consultants, and clients.
  • Review and understand project documents and assess any project risks.
  • Understand project logistics and project schedule.
  • Perform accurate quantity take-offs by hand and/or using software-enabled applications.
  • Track market conditions and costs.
  • Assist with the development of project scope, supporting value management activities, and communicating estimating scope with key project stakeholders.
  • Follow appropriate internal control safeguards to ensure consistent reporting of accurate information.
  • Assist in the coaching and development of other team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill level, and improve the standard of service delivery.
  • Use your skills with construction means and methods.
Qualifications & Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
  • Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.
  • CSCS card holder.
  • Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion.
  • Experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills.
  • Experience of working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships.
  • Experience in managing business relationships at middle-management level.
Why Arcadis?

We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we're 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 are 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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