Cost and Estimating Lead

Salary

**up to £63,000 (depending on experience)**
- Location

**Pity Me, Durham, County Durham**

**About the role**

**Cost and Estimating Lead**

**Working hours** _Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements including part time will be considered)_

**Permanent**

**Salary**_up to £63,000 per year (depending on experience) _

**Location** _hybrid working with office location at Pity Me, Durham_

**About the role**

We have an amazing new opportunity to become our Cost and Estimating Lead, reporting into the Integrated Controls Manager within our Asset Portfolio Management Office (PMO). We see this role is essential to realising our National Leader ambitions and we’re looking for a motivated governance and change professional, with direct experience of working in a fast-paced PMO environment.

You’ll act as the cost and estimating lead within the Northumbrian Water PMO and will lead a team of cost and estimating professionals in delivery of best practice project and programme cost planning, estimating and control.

We’re looking for you to implement and oversee the cost team ethos and the drive to achieve objectives, along with the review and assurance of estimates prepared by the cost team estimators for projects and contracts at key project lifecycles stages and proviso of ad-hoc estimates. We’re looking for you to also oversee preparation of estimates, provide analysis of Project Estimates across the project lifecycle and capture of outturn costs and the upload into the NWG cost estimating platform, IMOD.

You’ll be delivering on the provision of NEC3 Framework and Contract costing support in line with stakeholder requirements, along with guidance on project CBS preparation and its integration with the WBS, in collaboration with project teams and scheduling and risk leads. You’ll also be reviewing our contractors’ estimates for completeness and reasonable basis that supports the project scope and deliverables.

We’re looking for you to be the PMO & Capital Delivery cost and estimating authority, attend and contribute to meetings and management forums on behalf of the PMO, along with owning the cost preparation controls model and associated guidelines for meeting forums, purpose, attendees, and materials, ensuring consistency of approach across the delivery programme.

**About you**

We’re looking for you to have proven experience of developing and delivering the provision of high-quality cost and in-depth estimating support in a project controls or programme management environment, along with the successful development and deployment of project baseline cost structure build up, cost estimation, budgeting and cashflow management. You’ll also have demonstrable knowledge of contract and procurement management standards including NEC 3 forms of contract.

You’ll have a proven track record of accurate project cost monitoring, analysis, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with targets. You’ll also have experience of motivating high-performing colleagues or teams to a successful end, recognising the importance of training, development, safety, and well-being, along with having a close and effective collaboration with fellow PMO integrated function leads and supporting the Head of PMO.

We’re looking for you to have experience of using dedicated cost estimating, management systems and reporting tools and software, such as MS PowerBI, along with experience of performance dashboard development and information management to support senior level decision making.
- Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work._
- Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity._
- Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment_

**About us**

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply.

**NWG at a glance**:
Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

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