Cost Engineer

PSR Solutions are currently recruiting for a Cost Engineer on a 1 year fixed term contract. This will be working for a Tier 1 Contractor within the Rail and Civils industry. They will be looking to bring someone in who has an extensive amount of experience with working with Commercial and Cost teams for Rail or Civils businesses/projects in the past.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Working closely with the Commercial and Cost team, which you will be assisting with the cost control of the Project, focussing on labour / plant / materials through tracking of orders and regular reconciliation of costs with budget.
• Timely GRN of all POD's received onto the system.
• Proactive approach to closing out issues with POD/Invoice issues.
• Responsible for the accurate and timely cost collation, reconciliation and reporting of data from site records - time and allocation sheets, GRN's, POD's.
• Liaising with Construction Managers / Supervisors for the completion of these site records and retrieving them from one of the projects when needed.
• Ensuring all labour, plant and material schedules and trackers are maintained and accurate.
• Collation, organisation and reconciliation of spreadsheet data and data from finance / cost / site record systems.
• Active participation in weekly planned meetings.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested.
• Review of Purchase Order utilisation & notification to project teams of orders approaching or exceeding 100% utilisation. Reporting same at weekly project review meetings as required.
• Work closely with the Finance and project teams to ensure all processes are followed as required.
• Participating in project management team.

Person Specification:

• Working in a finance or commercial function within the engineering or construction sector.
• Having hands on experience working for contractors as a CE on large civils or infrastructure projects
• Working knowledge of finance systems
• Cost and budget administration
• Financial and commercial reporting
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel/Outlook)
• Working knowledge of PowerBI
• Full UK Driving licence

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years' experience as a Cost Engineer with a proven track record in major projects or five years' experience of Cost Clerk in similar industry.

If this role interestes you and you would like to learn more about it, please apply and contact Dan Confrey at PSR Solutions.