Cost Specialist

Job Title: Assistant Cost Engineer
Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: £32,000 - £43,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56315
At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Cost Engineer at our Glasgow site.
The role
As an Assistant Cost Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is your opportunity to become part of a leading nuclear services company, and to support complex UK defence projects. Playing a critical role in ensuring that our projects are completed successfully, on time, and within budget, all whilst collaborating with stakeholders, and implementing best practices.
Day to day, you'll secure required resources and use formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes, as well as managing projects to ensure on-time completion according to specifications and within budgeted costs.

• Provision of a pro-active cost engineering service to bids and projects in accordance with procedures and systems.
• Monitor and control of commitments and accruals in conjunction with the Project Manager.
• Support the production of project detailed cost reports as per project categorisation criteria and requirements.
• Monitor and control of change.
• Support the Cost Engineer in the production and analysis of cost/sale performance.
• Contribute to the identification of project risks and the quantification of financial impact.
• Set up, maintenance and control of the cost capture structure in finance system.

This role is full time, 37 hour working week role and will be based at our Glasgow site, with hybrid working from home arrangements.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential experience of the Assistant Cost Engineer:

• Experienced in cost estimation or cost engineering
• Sound knowledge of recognised project management and controls principles including Earned Value Management
• Good knowledge of the uses of commercial scheduling and estimating software
• Stakeholder engagement

Qualifications for the Assistant Cost Engineer:

• University degree or equivalent

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.
Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 31/03/2024
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