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Cost Management Lead (Project Controls)

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Hybrid
London, Greater London, England, GBR
Entry level
Hybrid
London, Greater London, England, GBR
Entry level
Leads cost management, cost engineering, and project controls for complex infrastructure, transportation, and building programmes. Advises clients, implements cost management solutions, collaborates with multidisciplinary teams, and promotes governance, standardization, digital innovation, and continuous improvement across project controls. Supports projects throughout business case development, design, construction, and handover.
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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

 

Role description:

At Arcadis, we're delivering some of the UK's most significant capital investment programmes across infrastructure, transportation and buildings. As our project portfolio continues to grow, we're looking for a talented Cost Management Lead to join our Major Projects team and help clients successfully deliver complex, high-value programmes.

This is an opportunity to work across projects from early business case development through design, construction and handover, providing industry-leading cost management and project controls expertise that drives better outcomes for our clients.

 

Role accountabilities:

  • Leading cost management and cost engineering activities on major infrastructure and transportation projects.
  • Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, delivering best-practice project controls solutions.
  • Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across project management, programme controls, cost and commercial, digital intelligence, advisory, design and engineering.
  • Supporting the development and implementation of innovative digital cost management solutions.
  • Promoting continuous improvement, standardisation and best practice across project controls functions.
  • Contributing to the growth of Arcadis' global Project & Programme Controls community.

 

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Proven experience in cost management, cost engineering or project controls within infrastructure, transportation and/or buildings sectors.
  • Strong understanding of cost management processes, governance and control systems on complex projects.
  • Experience using industry cost management tools such as Deltek Cobra, Congruent, Oracle or similar platforms.
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement and client-facing communication skills.
  • Understanding of how cost management integrates with planning, risk, scope management and wider project controls disciplines.
  • Experience working across multiple stages of the project lifecycle.
  • Degree or diploma in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
  • Professional qualifications or memberships such as APM, RICS, ICEC, MSP or similar

 

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

 

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