Senior Cost Engineer in uk

Job Title	Senior Cost Engineer
Auto req ID	11827BR
Position Status	Full Time
Term Status	Temporary
Country	United Kingdom
Region	Scotland (North East)
Office Location	Aberdeen
Business Sector	Oil & Gas
Business / Operating Unit	Natural Resources Europe/WAfrica
Business Area	Brownfield
Project / Client	Alder
Are relocation funds available?	No
External Job Advert	Purpose / Role: • Ensuring effective control and reporting of project costs in accordance with all relevant AMEC policies and procedures. • Reference should also be made to the individual responsibilities in health, safety, environmental and quality (SHEQ) matters detailed for this position within the Oil and Gas SHEQ Manual. Key aims and objectives: • Ensuring that project cost control and reporting is undertaken in a consistent manner and reported in accordance with AMEC policies and procedures. • Maintain and generate accurate cost reports in a form and frequency that ensures those managing the project/ budgets have clear understanding and visibility of the status of expenditure against budgets • Working closely with and supporting other members of the cost and planning team. Prime responsibilities and duties: • Maintain and promote a safe working environment • Provide Cost Engineering service to the contract with responsibility for the accurate Cost Reporting of complete projects or individual elements within major projects. • Expenditure Analysis / Reporting • Preparation and maintenance of project cost control structures • Monitor and report costs against Project Target Cost Estimates (TCE’s) • Allocate costs to appropriate AFE / Cost Centers • Prepare project cost reports, Value of Work Done  & monthly budget forecasts • Prepare project cost reconciliations (project escalations, variations etc) • Manage & Operate Systems • Meetings, Reports & Communication • Generating accurate, monthly cost/ man-hour reports for all project activities including, where applicable, both AMEC and Client commitments, accruals, actual expenditure to date and forecast final expenditures • Contribute to the Contract Commercial Meeting •  Undertake regular reviews of expenditure against progress and latest estimates by activity, and assessing the impact of cost over/under-runs by preparing trend analyses and options. •  Actively participate in the following meetings - project progress meetings, change control meetings, KPI/ Incentive return meetings, project delivery and cost departmental meetings. Experience / Qualifications / Other: • The candidate must have the ability to produce detailed cost reports that can be substantiated and be able to present them in a professional format to the required level of accuracy. •  Appreciation of the importance of cost data collection and analysis. Personal qualities, aptitudes and skills: • Self-managing, effective team member focussed on delivery of actions and making a real impact on efforts to improve performance. • Ability to establish effective working relationships with all levels of the organisation. • Personally promotes an improvement culture through actions rather than words • Ability to organise and prioritise and effectively balance multiple priorities. • Accurate and numerate with excellent attention to detail • Excellent communication and organisation skills Competencies – role specific: • Experienced in the use of Microsoft Office suite of applications • Experience and confidence in the use of typical business software applications Key internal interfaces: • Liaison with personnel at all levels within the Contract Services Team and within discrete Projects Key external interfaces: • Dealing directly with all levels of personnel within Supplier and Subcontract organisations • Client interface
BoilerPlateText	AMEC is a focused supplier of consultancy, engineering and project management services to its customers in the world's oil and gas, minerals and metals, clean energy, environment and infrastructure markets. With annual revenues of some £3.3 billion, AMEC designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets and employs over 27,000 people in around 40 countries worldwide. See amec.com.
Removal Date	11-May-2013