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Cost Engineer

Job Posted: 12 days ago

Salary: £ 70.68 - 70.68 / Hour
Job Type: Contract
Location: Reading, Berkshire

Expire in: 16 days

Job Description

Contract Cost Engineer (Inside IR35) | Nuclear Sector | Reading | £70.68/hr Umbrella

We're recruiting for an experienced Cost Engineer to support a major project within the UK nuclear industry. This is an immediate-start contract opportunity based near Reading, working on a hybrid basis with 3 days per week on site and 2 days remote.

The successful candidate will play a key role in the development, management, and reporting of project costs, ensuring robust financial control throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and maintain project baseline budgets, Control Account Plans, Responsibility Assignment Matrices, and WBS dictionaries.
Monitor, control, and validate project accruals, commitments, resource forecasts, and financial data.
Manage cost risk budgets, contingency drawdown, and support wider project risk management activities.
Control financial change management, ensuring alignment with contractual and business requirements.
Produce internal and external cost reports, including Earned Value Management (EVM) and variance analysis.
Maintain Estimates at Completion (EACs), support forecasting activities, and provide financial performance insights to project stakeholders.

Requirements

Significant experience in cost engineering, project controls, or quantity surveying within a complex engineering, construction, infrastructure, defence, or nuclear environment.
Strong understanding of budgeting, cost control, forecasting, change management, and earned value analysis.
Experience across the full project lifecycle from bid phase through to project close-out.
HNC (or equivalent) in Cost Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.
Professional membership or qualification (e.g. APM, AcostE, RICS) highly desirable.
Advanced knowledge of EVM and project cost management methodologies.

Contract Details

Location: Reading
Duration: 26 weeks
Rate: £70.68/hr Umbrella 
Per Diem: £100/day Umbrella for site days where home address is more than 30 miles from site
Hybrid Working: 3 days onsite 
Start: ASAP, subject to clearanceSecurity Requirements: Candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance and have lived and worked in the UK continuously for the last 5 years. Applicants may start on BPSS clearance providing SC clearance is in progress. A valid CSCS/ECS card is required prior to commencement.

To apply, please send your CV highlighting your cost engineering and project controls experience.

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Progressive Recruitment, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC(phone number removed) England and Wales

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