Cost Clerk
| Posting date: | 10 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 December 2025 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE3 6WT |
| Company: | Barhale |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | MP-64154-1368 |
Summary
About Barhale
Who are Barhale?
Barhale is a business founded on family values, having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran, in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors, including:
- Water
- Transport
- Built environment
- Energy
We operate as a tier one partner for blue chip, regulated and private clients, working as part of large frameworks, joint ventures and alliances, as well as on individual standalone projects, developing long-term relationships based on delivering to the Barhale values which have been integral to our business since their inception in 1985.
Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do, as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide.
We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities, including:
- Tunnelling
- MEICA
- Temporary and permanent design
- Steel-fabrication
- Signs (design and fabrication)
- Health & safety equipment and products, including PPE
Company Website:
https://www.barhale.co.uk/
Company Showcase Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFqsoclCUZA
Why join Barhale?
- As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies.
- Job security, long-term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes
- A broad range of civil engineering, mechanical and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients
- Strong career progression as demonstrated by our track record in promoting from within, as we believe this is a key driver of our success
Who are the IOS Alliance?
Barhale is one of three delivery partners within the Anglian Water Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Alliance. IOS is a medium to high complexity, capital maintenance and enhancement, Civil and MEICA, design and build delivery unit working across Water and Water Recycling to support the successful implementation of the Anglian Water AMP 8 business plan.
Cost Clerk
The Role
Working on site as part of the project commercial team, you will provide commercial and administrative support for the project(s) on a day-to-day basis. You will be accountable to the Senior Quantity Surveyor on the project and be responsible for the following:
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the commercial management of the scheme.
- Assisting with the provision of transparent, accurate and timely commercial cost reporting for the project.
- Assist with the coordination of project plant requirements, requisitions/orders and active management of the plant on site to minimise plant costs.
- Assisting with the control of costs, maximising value and minimising future liabilities.
- Work collaboratively with the site team to provide commercial and administrative support on commercial matters.
- Assist with the provision of accurate cost reporting and forecasting to mitigate adverse financial impacts.
- Assist with the effective capture of costs and allocation of associated liabilities to project activities.
- Ensure adherence to alliance processes and systems.
- Assist the Senior Quantity Surveyor with commercial reporting and ensuring the reporting information is accurate, meaningful and timely, including the extraction of data from financial systems.
- Assist with the coordination of plant requirements for the project(s).
- A clear focus on timely reporting of the latest job costing position to give robust future forecasts of the final outturn cost.
- Ad-hoc reporting of commercial and financial data, as and when required.
- Maintaining clear filing of commercial records in line with Alliance procedures.
- Assist with the production of project-specific costs to complete (solution costs)
Essential:
- Experience working in a similar position on a project site
- Awareness of the consolidated application/payment certificate contractor processes
- Excellent understanding of all Microsoft packages, and ability to manipulate and present data/information clearly, concisely and appropriately.
- Strong numeracy skills.
- Experience using SAP or a similar financial reporting system
- UK Driving Licence
Desirable:
- Experience using Redsky
Caring and investing in you
Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years, and they are our guiding principles regarding how we care and invest in people. Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.
As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.
From the moment you join us, your well-being and career aspirations will be supported by.
- Competitive salary
- Company Pension
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical
- 25 days of annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
- 8 hours volunteering
- Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing
- Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
- Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position)
- Leadership & management training and coaching
- Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
- Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
- Continuous service awards
Would you like to know more?
Please contact our Recruitment team via careers@barhale.co.uk
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