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About the Role

This role focuses on delivering complex infrastructure programs, leading cost, procurement, and contract delivery from feasibility to completion. It involves providing end-to-end cost management services across diverse sectors, applying advanced technical expertise for robust cost planning, control, and reporting on new and ongoing commissions. The role aligns with Mace's values: Safety First, Client Focus, Integrity, and Create Opportunity.

Responsibilities

Accountable for feasibility studies, advising on procurement strategies and contract selection, and undertaking procurement reports.
Utilize expertise and apply value management techniques at project inception.
Manage estimating and cost planning activities, including presenting the final cost plan.
Supervise the preparation of contract documents, warranties, bonds, and licenses, assisting formal execution.
Advise on the administration of building contract terms.
Accountable for measuring work valuations and ensuring effective cost checking and valuation.
Ensure adequate cost control and reporting services during the contract, producing and presenting monthly post-contract cost reports to clients.
Identify all costs associated with design changes, contract awards, construction activities, and client charges.
Oversee and engage in evaluating claims for delay and additional costs from contractors and subcontractors/suppliers.
Provide comprehensive advice on issuing certificates of making good defects and final completion.
Advise on issuing certificates of practical completion and ensure final accounts are negotiated and agreed.
Manage a team of Cost Consultants, providing guidance, direction, coaching, and performance management.
Deliver improvements in systems and processes, driving transformational change.
Provide mentoring and training to team members.
Share technical, functional, and domain expertise to upskill capabilities.
Develop and maintain internal and external relationships.
Identify and implement continuous improvement plans and key business improvements.
Work collaboratively towards net zero carbon transition, identifying and managing associated carbon emissions and reductions.

Requirements

Demonstrable experience delivering service excellence to clients.
Proven experience in cost planning, budgeting, and estimating.
Sound understanding of work costs, timescales, and implications of delivery risk.
Knowledge of BIM techniques and applications.
A degree in quantity surveying/cost management (or equivalent).
Professional membership (e.g., MRICS/RICS or equivalent).
Sound knowledge of value engineering, life cycle costing, contract law, and construction contractual frameworks.
Proficient knowledge and expertise in a specific sector/market relevant to the project/role.
Comprehensive understanding of present-day issues such as Sustainability, Social Value, and Carbon Reduction.

Work Type

Part-time
Flexible
Hybrid working

Education Level

Degree in quantity surveying/cost management (or equivalent)
Professional membership (e.g., MRICS/RICS or equivalent)

About the Company

Mace aims to redefine ambition by creating responsible places that bring transformative impact to people, communities, and societies globally.
Its consult business leverages leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock project potential.
Mace is an inclusive employer.
Company values include: Safety First, Client Focus, Integrity, and Create Opportunity.

Equal Opportunity

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates.
Candidates are encouraged to apply even if they do not fulfill all criteria, as they may be suitable for this or another role within the organization.