19 Full time, Property jobs in North Berwick, East Lothian

Vacancy

Senior Cost Manager

Division

Real Estate

Location

Edinburgh, (we are also considering applications for Glasgow & Aberdeen offices).

Contract

Full-time, Permanent

PLEASE NOTE - This is a flexible Hybrid role!

Salary

CIRCA £55000 - £65000 (this may be negotiable).

Benefits

Company Car, Excellent Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance, Private Healthcare.

Company Description

This is a truly people driven business - The organisation provides a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

They have a strong ethos of supporting people succeeding both in work and life. To support this the company promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Internal promotional opportunities are encouraged at all levels of the business, offering long term careers within all areas of the company.

Very well established and hugely successful Project Management and Consultancy services company are expanding.

With a GLOBAL presence, the organisation have experienced massive year on year growth over a long period of time and as a result of this are currently recruiting in several locations across the UK.

Working with their clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, they transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.

Company capabilities include:

Programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an MEP Senior Cost Manager, to join a very busy Real Estate team in the Edinburgh office. (Please note we are also seeking people for Glasgow and Aberdeen).

Supporting Developer, Occupier, Governmental, Health, Education and Tech clients to deliver complicated projects and challenging programmes.

The position will be to lead on the Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) specific deliverables within a larger project or leading direct MEP commissions, such as asset upgrade works.

The individual must be self-motivated and Client facing (both internal & external) with the ability to manage multiple projects and clients.

This will involve establishing early budgets, early estimating, and cost planning, managing a design team to the budget, tendering and procurement (single and two stage) and post contract reporting to the Client.

A good knowledge of MEP systems and supply chain is fundamental with the ability to work both collaboratively but robustly with any main contractor and their MEP supply chain.

Key Accountabilities

Commission Management, to include the following, either as part of a larger project or leading an MEP direct commission:

• Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports

• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan to internal & external clients

• Tendering (single and two stage) and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage

• Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes

• Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place

• Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client

• Inputting into value engineering

• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts

• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages

• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities.

Qualifications

Experience and Skills:

• A proven track record of delivering high quality cost management/quantity surveying services across the full project lifecycle

• Professionally qualified (RICS or similar) or working towards

• Degree or HNC level qualification

• Ability to successfully manage and prioritise more than one project at a time.

• Experience in delivering MEP elements of work for clients

• Knowledge & contacts within the MEP supply chain (tier 1 and below)

• Utilising digital software for delivery of cost management services

• Commercially astute with good negotiation skills

• Excellent people person and great communicator, both client facing and team based.