Cost Engineer

At Amentum, we are driven by an unyielding commitment to innovation, integrity, and collaboration, tackling significant challenges in science, security, and sustainability. If you are passionate about making a real impact and want to be part of a community that values ethical excellence, this is the place where your ambition can thrive. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients, and communities.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We are happy to discuss hybrid, part-time, and flexible working hours, patterns, and locations to suit you and our business.

We are recruiting for a Cost Engineer to support key project deliverables across our nuclear project portfolio. If you are familiar with project delivery, you will know that they have plenty of moving parts and complexity, which is why you will be working alongside our Subject Matter Experts, Operations Managers, and our Framework Service team.

Centre to the success of the role will be your people skills, building effective relationships and interacting with multiple internal and external stakeholders in multiple locations. You will also work closely with colleagues to support activities that offer the best service to the client. Through your interactions, you will gather useful intelligence on client needs and work with the team to deliver innovative solutions. You will utilise your communication and engagement skills to achieve client, people, and business outcomes, working with your team and peers that are based in different locations across the UK.

The position is accountable to the Project Controls Manager and is responsible for developing and managing framework projects to incorporate risk, change, resource requirements, and cost in accordance with Amentum requirements and Standards. The role will lead the cost management activities for our major frameworks for our key clients across the Energy Division. This role has no direct reports and can be based at any of our UK Amentum Offices, with occasional business travel to UK sites/stations.

Everyone working in our team will have a proven track record of working within highly regulated environments with high safety standards and culture. Good communication and organisational skills are a must, with the ability to develop relationships and maintain effective networks, being results-focused with a team-centred approach.

• Minimum of HNC/HND ideally in an Engineering discipline or relevant experience.
• Good working knowledge of financial systems.
• Breadth of experience across the whole project and programme lifecycle, e.g., Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation/Commissioning.
• Understand the inter-relationship between time, cost, and commercial aspects of the project life cycle.
• The ability to reconcile cost information as it applies to the programmes of work.
• Proficient in the use of estimating, scheduling, programming, and risk tools.
• Ability to communicate well at all levels of management, produce monthly reports, to an agreed reporting cycle, to provision of intelligent information.
• Capture project budgetary costs and resources in the plan to determine time phasing of expenditure and the total project budget.
• Able to establish robust Work Breakdown and Project Control Structures in terms of project scope, in accordance with Investment Delivery processes, templates, and Procedures.
• Experienced to challenge as necessary to ensure compatibility and compliance.
• Knowledge to maintain and control project baselines in line with company procedures and guidance.

Our values are built on a strong foundation of safety, integrity, and respect for every individual. People are at the heart of our mission, and we believe in supporting one another through a culture of care and collaboration. We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. Supporting mental wellbeing and fostering a sense of connection are essential to how we work. When we embrace different perspectives and work together, we become more innovative, more agile, and more successful.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.