The Role
The role involves managing M&E cost management services, leading projects, maintaining client relationships, and ensuring commercial performance in various sectors.
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Title: Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager (Mechanical & Electrical)
Discipline: Cost Management
Location: Wokingham, Thames Valley (With Hybrid Working)
Location: Wokingham, Thames Valley (With Hybrid Working)
Why RLB?
At RLB, we live by four simple ideas: Truth, Trust, Together, Tomorrow. Four values that live at the heart of RLB. A place where People Make Progress.
We value your skills, talents and unique perspectives – we think they are priceless.
Bring them to RLB and you’ll be empowered to shape our future and your career in new and meaningful ways.
We’ll give you opportunities to work on some of the most ambitious and exciting projects currently being designed and developed in the built environment sector.
You’ll continue to learn and advance as everyone who works for us is provided with a tailored training programme. Our mentoring and reverse mentoring schemes will enable you to share your expertise while gaining fresh insights.
What makes RLB unique is our inclusive culture. As an independent, employee-owned business, teamwork and collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies are just some of the ways we invest in employee wellbeing.
Join us and you will thrive personally as well as professionally.
Role Overview
Role Overview
Our dedicated team provide a wealth of experience throughout all sectors, giving expert advice to all clients through our thorough knowledge of the MEP market, from material cost changes through to understanding contractor workloads within the sector. Allowing the team to give detailed cost advice. With our team spread across different regions of the UK we can provide a unique service offering of key personnel with the MEP expertise to cater for our clients’ needs regardless of sector, location and/or project challenges.
We are currently recruiting a Cost Manager or Senior Cost Manager (Mechanical and Electrical) to join our Southern Region.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced candidate to join and strengthen our Cost Management offering. The role will involve providing all M&E Cost Management services across a variety of ever changing, high profile, high value, and complex and projects within sectors such as Major Projects, Aviation, Hotels & Leisure, Retail, Residential and Sports & Entertainment and Industrial & Logistics.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced candidate to join and strengthen our Cost Management offering. The role will involve providing all M&E Cost Management services across a variety of ever changing, high profile, high value, and complex and projects within sectors such as Major Projects, Aviation, Hotels & Leisure, Retail, Residential and Sports & Entertainment and Industrial & Logistics.
M&E Cost Management is a buoyant specialism for RLB and our numerous clients, and one that is experiencing massive growth. We are therefore looking for future leaders to carry the sector forward, which poses a brilliant opportunity for personal development and progression within the business. You will be joining an established and supportive team of cost management professionals with extensive and diverse experience.
Role Responsibilities
- Leading M&E packages and projects from a cost management / quantity surveying perspective.
- The candidate will be an integral part of a team that is accountable for the commercial and contractual performance of a project.
- To carry out assigned duties efficiently and in accordance with processes and procedures.
- Building and maintaining client relationships.
- To support business objectives of delivering value for money in all circumstances.
- Pre and Post contract Quantity Surveying duties.
- Preparing and issuing tender documents.
- Cost Planning including preparing cost budgets and appraisals, and elemental cost plans.
- Identifying commercial opportunities.
Candidate Profile
Qualifications
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar technical discipline.
- Preferably Chartered via RICS or another relevant professional body, or studying toward.
Experience
- Strong technical delivery experience.
- Strong M&E Cost Management experience.
- Client facing, ensuring a high standard of technical delivery.
- Previously employed by a consultancy, specialist M&E firm / contractor.
- Stakeholder management with a clear focus on developing client accounts.
- A track record of working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering deadlines.
Behaviours
- Recognised as a client focused, positive collaborator who shares knowledge freely and offers support to their peers and seniors. Recognised as a team player with a strong willingness to learn.
- Demonstrates a positive and proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.
Employee Benefits
Our culture is built around enabling you to fulfil your potential, so you can look forward to benefits that include:
Hybrid Working - Working patterns to support your work-life balance. As well as competitive maternity and paternity packages.
Well-Rewarded - A competitive salary and generous holiday entitlement. As well as the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days.
Focus On Wellbeing - We offer a number of health and wellness options, including gym membership and cycle to work schemes.
Healthcare Packages - Private healthcare insurance and medical support, including dental insurance and eyecare vouchers.
Personal Development - A continuous learning and development programme, including established APC and in-house mentoring schemes.
Additional Benefits - We offer a wide range of benefits including a season ticket loan and professional membership subscriptions.
Exceptional Exposure - You’ll have the opportunity to work on diverse projects across different sectors and regions.
Social Responsibility - We hold team and social events as well as charity fundraising and volunteering activities.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Promise
We believe in building a diverse and inclusive environment where each person can be themselves, feel valued for their contribution and be challenged and supported to reach their full potential. We have a responsibility to support the communities in which we live and work, and that our workforce should reflect these communities and our clients. Our talent strategy should enable us to overcome bias in the construction industry by recruiting, retaining, developing, and promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce. Find out more here: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - RLB | Europe
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with either hidden or physical disabilities who meet the essential criteria for the role. This guarantees an interview, not an offer of employment.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during any stage of the application or interview process, please contact our recruitment team at: [email protected]
About
With a network that covers the globe and a heritage spanning over two centuries, Rider Levett Bucknall is a leading independent organisation in cost management and quantity surveying, project management and advisory services.Our achievements are renowned: from the early days of pioneering quantity surveying, to landmark projects such as the Sydney Opera House, HSBC Headquarters Building in Hong Kong, the 2012 London Olympic Games and CityCenter in Las Vegas.We continue this successful legacy with our dedication to the value, quality and sustainability of the built environment. Our innovative thinking, global reach, and flawless execution push the boundaries. Taking ambitious projects from an idea to reality.
Skills Required
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar technical discipline
- Preferably Chartered via RICS or another relevant professional body
- Strong technical delivery experience
- Strong M&E Cost Management experience
- Previously employed by a consultancy, specialist M&E firm / contractor
- Stakeholder management experience
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The Company
What We Do
Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) is a global independent construction, property, and management consultancy specializing in cost management, quantity surveying, project and programme management, and asset advisory services.
