Mace, Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Overview

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Within our business we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery to unlock the potential in every project. The project involves recruiting for a talented, motivated and ambitious Commercial Manager to join our expanding infrastructure commercial consultancy team.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome interest from a diverse range of candidates. We are open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options where suitable within the role.

Responsibilities

• Management of the estimating and cost planning process for the whole or a section of works.
• Setting an estimating plan and strategy with the team and ensuring compliance.
• Preparing initial cost plans at pre-concept and concept stages.
• Refining the cost plans through all stages to detailed design arriving at full estimates.
• Quantification.
• Liaising with specialists and contractors to obtain cost advice and data.
• Benchmarking both cost and functional spaces and quantities.
• Cost data analysis, including researching appropriate cost data for use within the estimates and refining to reflect project specific requirements.
• Identifying key cost drivers and briefing the team to drive design to a solution within budget.
• Producing reports at various stages.
• Working with design and construction teams and providing commercial and cost advice.
• Change control contribution to ensure budgets reflect the current scope.
• Challenge and contribute to alternative solutions to ensure budgets are maintained.
• Value management and value engineering, commercial input.
• Understanding three point estimating techniques including application of levels of uncertainty, risk, and modelling of estimates.
• Ability to produce cost plans and estimates that take into account site specific requirements, construction methods, and allowances for temporary and abortive works.
• Ability to develop estimating and cost planning risk models and assess the potential time and cost impact of same.
• Understanding of cost drivers associated with major projects and the impact these could have on cost plans and estimates.
• Ability to determine, define, and record all assumptions, exclusions, data sources, and caveats.

Requirements

• Degree qualified preferred - quantity surveying or appropriate related.
• Professional qualifications likely to have or preferred - RICS/CIOB/ICE.

Experience and Skills

• Estimating experience on major infrastructure projects.
• Extensive estimating or cost planning experience with a contractor or consultancy.
• Worked previously with design teams with understanding of what drives design decisions.
• Ability to analyse cost and quantity data including key drivers.
• Researching data and ability to analyse and adjust for specific cost drivers such as location etc.
• Working as a team member alongside the project manager to help drive projects to the right solutions within budget.
• Understanding and experience of Benchmarking.
• Ability to build estimates from first principles.
• Producing estimates from benchmark data and limited information.
• Working with detailed design to produce estimate.
• Working with limited design information with ability to understand what is not detailed on the drawings.
• Understanding and experience of estimating systems including CATO.
• Be able to present work in a clear and concise manner.
• Preparation of reports which are clear and identify key messages and costs.
• Presentations to clients and stakeholders if required.
• Measurement for buildings and/or civil engineering.

Additional Information

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