Associate Director - Cost Management
- Executive to Associate Director level
- Warrington (Mixture of home, office and client site)
- Permanent
- Full time with flexible working and core hours
Gleeds Energy is recruiting for experienced Associate Directors to join our expanding team in the North West and meet the growing demands of our clients within the nuclear sector. In this role, you play a part in the support and enabling works of England's nuclear energy advancement.
We are seeking a highly skilled and commercially astute Quantity Surveyor's to provide cost engineering leadership and commercial assurance across design contracts for highly complex works. This role is pivotal in driving robust cost control, validating estimates and forecasts, safeguarding final account integrity, and delivering transparent cost assurance to ensure demonstrable value for money across complex, high-value early works packages.
The successful candidate will challenge scope, validate outputs, and drive commercial discipline across multi-disciplinary design teams.
Key responsibilities will be:
- Establish and lead estimating and cost forecasting processes while ensuring they are robust, accurate and aligned with industry standard.
- Develop and refine cost estimates and financial forecasts.
- Conduct detailed cost risk assessments to identify potential financial risks and make recommendations to mitigate risk.
- Work closely with project teams to establish a cost baseline that will serve for future cost tracking, forecasting and reporting.
- Provide detailed cost analyst and estimates.
- Establish and maintain a robust database of historical costs, benchmarks and other relevant data.