Cost Engineer

We are currently recruiting on behalf of a tier one contractor, for a Cost Engineer in Wednesbury.

Purpose of the Role

To assist the team (Commercial/Delivery/Finance) in facilitating timely payment of all incoming Materials/Plant/Labour/Sub-Contract works and ensuring the Cost Clerk team maintains the DPO (Days Payment Outstanding) requirements of the business.

Collation of commercial data as required by the Project team (Accruals/PO Status/Account Issues).

Timely resolution of all account queries with suppliers and delivery teams.

Role Responsibility & Accountability

- Working closely with the SQS/QS you will assist 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, and liaison with the finance team to ensure DPO (Days Payment Outstanding) remains within business tolerance.

- Proactive approach to closing out issues with POD/Invoice issues with suppliers/Delivery Team/Finance.

- Responsible for the accurate and timely cost collation, reconciliation and reporting of data from site records - time and allocation sheets, GRN's, POD's (or delivery team approval if POD missing).

- Liaising with Construction Managers / Supervisors for the completion of these site records and retrieving them from one of the MMA Compounds if necessary.

- Ensuring all labour, plant and material schedules and trackers are maintained and accurate as well as periodic review of the suppliers allocated to each Cost Clerk, assuring balanced workloads.

- Liaising with Sub-contractors & Suppliers for Verification of Hours, Missing POD's, Quantity & Rate errors etc

- Collation, organisation and reconciliation of spreadsheet data and data from finance / cost / site record systems and entering such records into archive as needed (Scanned/Hard Copy & Digital Records)

- Active participation in weekly planned v actual resource usage reporting from weekly "plan, do and review" meetings.

- Support the Project Commercial team as necessary in the preparation of cost reports, audit responses, evaluation of Sub-Contractor Applications & issuing of payment notices & GRN on system.

- Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested.

- Working in close cooperation with Delivery Managers around commercial performance/Purchase Order Utilisation/Missing Tickets/Problem Suppliers

- 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. Identify non-conformance and elevate concerns to line management.

- Participating in project management team.

- Providing interface with Suppliers & Sub-Contractors.

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
- Highly organised and detail driven
- Full UK Driving licence

Qualifications

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

Desirable

- Member of Acoste/AACEI/ICEC or other professional body

- Degree Qualified in relevant field (Finance/Construction/Mathematics/Business)

- Knowledge of Copernic/Jade/Lisa cost control systems.

Please contact Harry Sharrard in the Birmingham office for more information on (phone number removed), or via LinkedIn.