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Arcadis

Assistant Cost Consultant

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Job Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today's mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world's growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.

Role accountabilities:

  • Work within established procedures to manage project cost control, reviewing commercial information to identify anomalies and ensure accurate, up-to-date data for management.
  • Contribute individually to professional cost management assignments while monitoring junior colleagues work to ensure project milestones and programmes are met.
  • Comply with risk and compliance principles by taking corrective actions or reporting unsafe/inappropriate situations and wider project risks to protect project delivery.
  • Interpret data and prepare supporting documentation (schedules, feasibility studies, cost reports), making straightforward recommendations to support senior decision-making.
  • Proactively assess and improve cost and commercial management processes by sharing knowledge, identifying opportunities, and providing expert advice.
  • Provide specialist cost management advice to internal and external stakeholders, assist senior staff in resolving stakeholder issues promptly, and contribute to ongoing client satisfaction.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or a relevant discipline, with progress towards a professional qualification.
  • Demonstrated experience in delivering analysis and insights to support commercial decisions.
  • Technical knowledge of construction processes and cost/commercial management.
  • Advanced proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and cost management software (e.g., CostX).
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for effective stakeholder engagement.
  • Strong understanding of own area of specialism and a developing awareness of the wider organisational and programme environment.

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a people first business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.

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