Senior Cost Engineer
Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Salary: £49,830 – £78,770 (depending on suitability, qualifications, and level of experience).
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9‑day working fortnight. Flexible working requests are considered to fit your lifestyle.
AWE offers an opportunity for a Senior Cost Engineer to play a key part in shaping the success of our most critical projects. As a senior member of the Project Controls team you will bring expertise, oversight, and insight to ensure projects are cost‑efficient, well‑managed, and supported by high‑quality data.
Qualifications
- Evidence of working with cost‑management software.
- Experience developing effective stakeholder relationships.
- History of working in a project environment.
- Good standard of general education, including business or project management qualification or equivalent, or proven level of experience.
Desired Experience
- Prepared, monitored, and controlled forecasts and budgets for specified projects, including change control.
- Provided trended data to the Project Manager based on performance to date and emerging trends, making recommendations.
- Interrogated systems and performance to ascertain actual expenditure and project accruals as needed.
- Prepared cost reports, including trend analysis and early warnings where necessary.
- Performed and supported other Cost Engineer requirements as requested.
- Maintained and promoted high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality and be a great team player.
- Conducted full and detailed SPI, CPI variance analysis and subsequent root‑cause analysis, followed by provision of narrative, recommendations, and recovery planning in accordance with monthly reporting timescales.
- Established the Project Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) and led on the preparation of cost studies utilising historical data, developing benchmarking information to meet specific needs.
- Implemented appropriate procedures, processes, and systems to ensure the quality and consistency of data.
- Tracked manpower productivity and analysed time booked to projects, including resource usage vs. planned, resource constraints, etc., and made relevant recommendations to the Project Manager.
Benefits
- 9‑day working fortnight – every other Friday off work, plus 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market‑leading contributory pension scheme (AWE pays 9%–13% of pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Maternity leave – 39 weeks full pay; paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay.
- Professional development opportunities, including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services.
- Life assurance (4 × annual salary).
- Discounts on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special leave policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non‑contractual basis.
Important Things You Need To Know
- You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work means you must be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
- Let us know on your application if you need any adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process.
- Interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1‑stage process.
We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.
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