Cost Engineer - Aldermaston, United Kingdom - Capita

Capita

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Aldermaston, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Fantastic opportunities for Cost Engineers
AWE is looking for a Cost Engineer. It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?
Location - Reading / Basingstoke Area

Salary:
£34,100 - £50,000 (dependent on experience)

AWE(one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK)offers an attractive array of benefits which include:
Market leading contributory pension scheme
Generous holiday entitlement(270 hours a year including bank holidays, plus every other Friday off)
Flexible working hours
Salary sacrifice scheme

This is a great opportunity to join a team responsible for ensuring that the UK Nuclear deterrent is assured as safe for its full lifecycle.

The role will be influencing the next generation of nuclear deterrence as well as maintaining the current evidence forthe existing products to the end of service life.

As a Project Cost Engineer, you'll be tasked to deliver a first-class cost engineering service to projects within the company.

You'll be an integral part of our Project Controls Team, responsible for contributing to the production of project budgets, monthly cost reports, cost forecasts, assessments of value of work in progress and supplier value of work done.

You'll also have input into the investment approval and change control process, risk and opportunity process and peer reviews.
Successful applicants for the Project Cost Engineer role will have:
Knowledge and experience of implementing best practice cost engineering processes and tools including: - Budget production and baseline maintenance
Cost Forecasting
Change Control
Variance Analysis
Cost and Performance Reporting
Knowledge and experience of forms of contract e.g., NEC3
Knowledge and experience of working with Earned Value Management (EVM) processes and techniques
Good communication skills including networking, influencing and stakeholder management
Qualifications (preferred): Degree or HND/HNC in appropriate business or technical discipline or equivalent experience
Membership or working towards membership of relevant professional body (Eg Association of cost engineers - ACostE)
Association of Project Management qualification (e.g., Project Planning and Control - Fundamentals/Practitioner)
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