Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor – Advanced Manufacturing Projects

Responsibilities

• Lead estimating and negotiating change orders throughout the construction lifecycle, ensuring alignment between scope, budget, and contract terms in technically complex environments.
• Provide comprehensive cost planning and estimating services, including developing, reviewing, and presenting detailed cost plans at key project milestones.
• Collaborate with design teams, engineers, and general contractors to develop and validate cost estimates across mechanical, electrical, process, and cleanroom scopes.
• Reconcile project changes and proactively review contractor data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and commercial alignment.
• Act as a key client interface, gathering project updates, supporting decision-making, and maintaining alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• Prepare detailed written commentary and executive summaries on contractor submissions, identifying risks, gaps, and cost impacts.
• Coincide and consolidate cost information from subcontractors, suppliers, vendors, and design teams to support accurate forecasting and reporting.
• Manage cost control processes including contingency utilization, cost variance analysis, and change management across multiple project phases or workstreams.
• Perform detailed cost checks and valuations, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting on large-scale, high-value projects.
• Support procurement activities including bid packaging, review of contractor and subcontractor pricing, bid leveling, and leading commercial negotiations.
• Provide commercial input into value engineering and design optimization initiatives to improve project efficiency while maintaining technical requirements.
• Produce monthly cost reports, forecasts, and funding updates, providing clear insights to senior stakeholders and client teams.
• Ensure robust cost auditing, validation procedures, and final account closeout processes are consistently applied.
• Maintain and contribute to benchmarking data and historical cost records to support future program planning.
• Mentor and support junior team members, ensuring consistent delivery standards and professional development.
• Manage financial performance across commissions, including fee forecasting, margin tracking, and utilization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry.
• RICS accredited or working towards it is preferred.
• Experience of leading cost management on medium or large-sized construction projects of medium to high complexity.
• Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Strong commercial, client-facing, and communication skills.