Cost Consultant

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a client-facing Cost Consultant who assists with strategic, tactical, and technical advice.
• Interface with clients, external and internal consultants at all project stages.
• Conduct feasibility studies and produce procurement reports.
• Produce ROMs for new and pipeline projects for a project budget to be based on.
• Day to day cost management of medium-large scale client projects including procurement, pay requests, change management and cost reporting.
• Manage the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including, pre-qualification, enquiry, evaluation, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively.
• Ensure post contract cost variances, change control, cost checking and valuation processes are managed effectively.
• Ensure the production of monthly post contract and cost reports and present them to the client.
• Provide value engineering and life cycle costing.
• Update benchmarking efforts as new projects are executed to provide real cost data to client.

You’ll Need To Have

• Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying or related field (MS, MBA preferred).
• Proven experience in cost consultancy.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry.
• Cost planning, budgeting and estimating experience.
• Sound understanding of costs and timescales of work undertaken and implications of risk of failure to deliver.
• Understanding different types of contract including the method of measurement.
• Negotiation skills.

Qualifications

Note: The estimated salary for this position is $115,000 USD. Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills and qualifications.