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Project Cost Controls Consultant
| Posting date: | 29 January 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 February 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, South West England |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | RPS Group Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | req6772 |
Summary
RPS is looking for a Project Cost Consultant to join our Environment team in Bristol. You’ll support the commercial delivery of our projects assist in managing the environmental aspects of major development projects, renewable energy schemes and other infrastructure projects. You will also coordinate our projects team’s commercial obligations including programme management, budget monitoring, change control and managing payment applications and invoicing. The role will be varied. Some days will be spent working with our clients, attending commercial meetings and preparing change control payment applications. Other days will be spent working with our various environmental teams with their delivery programmes, monitoring their budgets and checking financial project performance. The role will typically support several project managers across a variety of projects.
We’re RPS, our projects are all around you. We define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. Here you’ll find work that is challenging and rewarding, and you’ll be supported every step of the way.
What you’ll be doing
• Prepare project budgets and monitor spend.
• Prepare and update project programmes
• Develop and implement project plans, risk management plans, and project commercial documentation.
• Monitor and control project work to check that projects are is on schedule and within budget.
• Supporting project managers and teams working on large, multi-disciplinary projects
• Provide project progress reports to the project manager, stakeholders or clients.
• Support project teams with identifying scope changes and supporting change control
• Identify, track and help manage and mitigate project risks.
• Ensure effective and efficient communication within the project team and with the stakeholders.
• Conduct project post mortems and create recommendations reports in order to improve future project delivery.
• Supporting management of subcontractor and subconsultants
• Supporting commercial aspects of proposals and tenders
• Preparing pricing schedules and budgets for tenders
Who we’re looking for
• Experience working on environmental or engineering design projects or multi-disciplinary consultancy
• Use of project programme/management software Microsoft Project, P6 etc ideally but not essential.
• Decisive, well organised and great team worker.
• Confident working on their own and motivated
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills and can work with colleagues at all levels.
• Flexible and ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Attention to detail and very confident with handling commercial data and spreadsheets
• Basic understanding of contracts
• Self-starter and ability to work without close supervision
• Minimum A Level or equivalent standard with good levels GCSEs in English and Maths
• Very proficient on Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
What’s in it for you?
We’re an accredited training provider – from entry level to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we support learning and development for everyone.
A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.
We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you.
A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number, you’re part of the solution.
What happens next?
Successful candidates would be invited for an interview with key senior members of environmental team.
If this opportunity suits your career journey, we’d love to hear from you. All applications will be considered, and we will try our best to respond to you within seven working days.
We’re RPS, our projects are all around you. We define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. Here you’ll find work that is challenging and rewarding, and you’ll be supported every step of the way.
What you’ll be doing
• Prepare project budgets and monitor spend.
• Prepare and update project programmes
• Develop and implement project plans, risk management plans, and project commercial documentation.
• Monitor and control project work to check that projects are is on schedule and within budget.
• Supporting project managers and teams working on large, multi-disciplinary projects
• Provide project progress reports to the project manager, stakeholders or clients.
• Support project teams with identifying scope changes and supporting change control
• Identify, track and help manage and mitigate project risks.
• Ensure effective and efficient communication within the project team and with the stakeholders.
• Conduct project post mortems and create recommendations reports in order to improve future project delivery.
• Supporting management of subcontractor and subconsultants
• Supporting commercial aspects of proposals and tenders
• Preparing pricing schedules and budgets for tenders
Who we’re looking for
• Experience working on environmental or engineering design projects or multi-disciplinary consultancy
• Use of project programme/management software Microsoft Project, P6 etc ideally but not essential.
• Decisive, well organised and great team worker.
• Confident working on their own and motivated
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills and can work with colleagues at all levels.
• Flexible and ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Attention to detail and very confident with handling commercial data and spreadsheets
• Basic understanding of contracts
• Self-starter and ability to work without close supervision
• Minimum A Level or equivalent standard with good levels GCSEs in English and Maths
• Very proficient on Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
What’s in it for you?
We’re an accredited training provider – from entry level to master’s degree level professional qualifications in leadership & management and executive coaching & mentoring, we support learning and development for everyone.
A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.
We understand the need to work flexibly, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we’re happy to talk about flexible working. This is a workplace that works for you.
A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number, you’re part of the solution.
What happens next?
Successful candidates would be invited for an interview with key senior members of environmental team.
If this opportunity suits your career journey, we’d love to hear from you. All applications will be considered, and we will try our best to respond to you within seven working days.
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