Head of Cost Engineering - Bristol

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About the role

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They're an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as Head of Cost Engineering on the Sizewell C Project.

Sizewell C will create a 3.2 gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for at least 60 years. It will be built next to Sizewell B which began operating in 1995 and has so far avoided more than 76 million tonnes of carbon emissions.

This role will be hybrid with one to two days per week at our Bristol (Aztec West) offices.

What you'll be doing

• Cost Management: Develop and manage the project's cost baseline from
  the early stages, ensuring accurate tracking of all project expenditures,
  forecasting future costs, and maintaining financial discipline throughout
  the project lifecycle.
• Change Management: Establish and lead robust change management
  processes, including the identification, assessment, documentation, and
  approval of all project changes. Ensure that all changes are effectively
  communicated and that their impacts on cost, schedule, and quality are
  fully understood and managed.
• Contract Administration.
• Work closely with project teams to develop a comprehensive cost and change baseline that serves as the foundation for all future performance tracking, forecasting, and reporting.
• As the programme progresses, build, manage, and mentor a high-performing cost and change management team, fostering a culture of accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Collaborate with project teams, including engineering, procurement, and construction, to integrate cost and change management
  processes with broader project controls and project management activities.
• Identify, analyse, and mitigate financial risks that could impact the project's cost and schedule. Implement risk management strategies to address potential cost overruns and schedule delays and potential contract and change-related challenges.
• Generate regular reports on cost and change management activities, status, and compliance for project management and stakeholders, ensuring visibility into financial performance and change impacts.
• Establish clear and effective communication channels with all project stakeholders, including clients, contractors, and internal teams, to ensure transparency in cost management and change control processes.
• Work closely with the commercial and contract management teams to ensure that contractual obligations are met and that any variations or claims are managed in line with established cost and change controls.
• Utilise data analysis and forecasting tools to provide accurate financial forecasts and to inform decision-making around cost and change impacts.
• Collaborate with IT teams to implement and integrate digital tools and systems that support efficient cost management and change control processes.
• These accountabilities are not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities and
  activities that the job holder may be required to undertake.

Who we're looking for

• Extensive experience in cost, contract management and change control
  roles on large and complex infrastructure projects, with a particular
  emphasis on projects in their early stages of development.
• Proven experience in setting up and managing cost control and change
  management processes from the ground up
• Strong knowledge of commercial and financial management, budgeting,
  forecasting, and change management best practices, particularly within the
  construction or engineering sectors.
• Previous experience in leading cost and change management teams,
  particularly in a matrix structure on major projects
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire
  and develop a high-performing team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage
  effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Proficient in cost management software, ERP systems, and other digital
  tools related to financial and change management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a track record of
  delivering solutions in a fast-paced, complex project environment.
• Able to obtain a security clearance.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.