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Senior Cost Engineer

  • Location: Newbury
  • Salary: £41.53 - £55 per hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted over 2 years ago

  • Sector: Nuclear
  • Contact: Peter Shacklady
  • Contact Email: pshacklady@nrl.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: 01942 323277
  • Duration: 12 Months
  • Start Date: 21 January 2022
  • Expiry Date: 20 February 2022
  • Job Ref: 1039363
Top 5 Major Tasks and Activities:
  • Develop/implement and maintain the Project Baseline Budgets incl Control Account Plans/Responsibility Assignment Matrix and WBS Dictionary (SOW).
  • Responsible for the monitor, control and validation of project’s accruals and commitments and the control of resource and financial forecast data.
  • Management and control of cost risk budget and draw down and input into the risk management process.
  • Management and control of financial change management on the project and assurance of alignment with the business/contractual requirements.
  • Provision of internal and external financial performance & cost reports including earned value and variation analysis.

  • Alignment of cost management with schedule and contract.
  • Maintain cost elements within ERP
  • Key point of contact with the client and the project accountant for all financial budget and change control
  • Develop appropriate internal CBS and Control Accounts that are aligned to scope, contract and WBS.
  • Provide cost management support to bid and project initiation phases to ensure project are correctly set up and initiated.
  • Ensure cost management is aligned to the estimates and estimating process.
  • Analysing, vetting and interrogating the Contract Specification to ensure a full and detailed understanding and interpretation of the Customer requirements including Project gate and phase reviews for the Project Life cycle
  • Lead on the continuity between estimating and project delivery
  • Development and maintenance of Project Assumptions/Exclusions and Dependencies logs with regards to cost management.
  • Contribute to the identification of project risks, quantification of financial impact and cost risk analysis.
  • Responsible for managing and controlling project cost risk contingency and its draw down.
  • Day to day management, assurance and control of project booking code approval and closure (including purchase orders)
  • Management of the project cost change register and associated impact assessments
  • Production and submission/management of payment claims to client
  • Ensuring that the schedule is cost loaded in line with the Baseline budgets
  • Maintain project EAC’s, out turn costs and sales and ensure regular reviews are undertaken with each discipline
  • Support the PM/Finance Controller in the production and analysis of coast/sale performance
  • What-if cost modelling scenarios
  • Support to commercial management
  • Govern alignment of integrated schedule to project change register and budgets/forecasts
  • Recording of lessons learned in company LFE register
  • Control account Close out reports and support to final project close out report
  • Attending and contributing the business Project Controls Communities of Practise