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Assistant Project Cost Manager/Cost Manager - (Rail Sector)

Start here. Grow here.

Are you a cost/commercial management (Infrastructure) professional looking to work on projects that make a difference and enhance the world around us? If so, we are looking to attract the finest talent to be part of this journey.

We are looking for Assistant Project Cost Managers and Project Cost Managers (Infrastructure) to join our teams across our North, Midlands and Scotland Region operating from 8 regional offices, to work on a variety of interesting and challenging projects, both nationally and locally. You will be joining a growing team of like-minded people that have a passion for innovation and delivering cutting edge solutions.

Here's what you'll do

• Lead or support Project cost/commercial Management commissions, taking responsibility for their successful delivery.
• Help ensure commissions are managed and completed efficiently, on time budget and to the client’s satisfaction.
• Accountable for the cost/commercial management delivery of projects in a safe & environmentally responsible manner to time, cost and quality, in accordance with the GRIP or PACE.
• Manage multi-disciplinary teams including commercial, programme controls, engineering, and others to deliver the client requirements.
• Support the project sponsor in preparing and maintaining definitions of the project requirements.
• Help Identify and monitor project risks (threats and opportunities), plan and implement mitigations to them, and respond to other issues that affect the project.
• Assist in the management ofstakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
• Provide the required reports and attend Managing project reviews at appropriate points throughout the project lifecycle which will inform governance decisions of projects by providing evaluations of progress, performance, risk, contingency, and continuing relevance.
• Accountable for managing the safe and effective delivery of all projects from low complexity single discipline through to high complexity multi-disciplinary projects to meet client requirements to time, cost, quality, and performance.
• Consolidating and documenting the fundamental components of projects (scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues, and quality requirements).
• Understand the value of the programme/project beyond the financial impact, coordinating multi- discipline teams to agreed and achievable objectives
• Establish, and implement, where necessary, cost/commercial management protocols to change the scope of projects and update configuration documents as required.
• Accountable for the production and maintenance of project documentation, including timelines, resource allocation, project execution strategies and reports.
• Provide support to SPM project manager on contract management services on NEC4 contracts, administering through a contract management system.
• Ensure compliance with the Construction Design Management Regulations Act of 2015.
• Advise the client on procurement strategies and review tender documentation.
• Provide effective support and mentoring to Graduates and Apprentices.

Approach to all projects requires a high degree of flexibility and creativity, excellent presentational skills and an ability to communicate effectively with clients and consultants. The successful candidate shall be charged with the delivery of Project cost/commercial Management Services within our Client focused and highly motivated professional team.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for

• A minimum 3 years’ experience, providing a full spectrum of PM cost/commercial management services including general contract management and administration, proactively engaging with relevant stakeholders and ensuring delivery within the agreed parameters.
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of NEC3/4 contract management, ideally with Accreditation.
• A relevant degree such as in project managementquantity surveying or equivalent, engineering, environmental science, construction, or relevant subject. Alternatively, relevant experience in industry would be considered acceptable for exceptional candidates.
• Experience of working in the Rail industry with an understanding of railway systems and processes such as GRIP or PACE.
• Successful relevant experience in a project cost/commercial management environment including experience in team management, planning, contracting and delivery of projects.
• Experience of project budget management and ability to understand and interpret commercial and financial landscapes (budgets, forecasts, actual status).
• Application of Construction Design Management within the rail industry.
• Knowledge of railway assets and how they are managed.
• Experience in the built environment as client-side Project Manager
• A project management qualification such as APM PMQ or PRINCE2 would be desirable.
• Ability to undertake and successfully complete security screening checks.
• Demonstrable experience resource planning and supporting the development of less experienced resources within the team
• Working towards membership of a related professional body preferably (APM, CIOBRICS or equivalent) would be desirable

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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