Cost Planner in Birmingham

Job Summary

The Cost Controller is a key member of the Project Controls team, responsible for overseeing financial aspects of a construction project to ensure costs are controlled and budgets are adhered to.

This role requires a strong understanding of construction processes, financial management, and Earned Value Management (EVM) principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Budget Development and Management: Collaborate with various disciplines to establish, monitor, and update project budgets throughout the project lifecycle.
• Cost and Quantity Tracking and Reporting: Monitor actual quantities and costs against forecast and budgets, identifying variances and reporting findings to relevant stakeholders.
• Earned Value Management (EVM): Implement and maintain EVM systems to measure project performance, integrating cost, schedule, and scope to provide accurate assessments of project health.
• Forecasting: Prepare regular cost and quantity forecasts, highlighting potential overruns and recommending corrective actions.
• Change Management: Review, analyse, and process change orders, ensuring all cost impacts are captured and budget adjustments are made accordingly.
• Financial Reporting: Produce detailed financial reports, including cash flow projections and cost-to-complete analyses for senior management and client reporting.
• Risk Management: Identify cost-related risks and participate in the development of mitigation strategies.

Technical skills and Competencies

• Proven experience in cost control on large (£100m+) construction projects.
• Strong knowledge of Earned Value Management, risk management and cost control and its application in construction.
• Familiar with cost control and project management software (e. g. Primavera, SAP).
• Excellent numerical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Strong knowledge of integrated project reporting and comfortable with presenting sometimes in high pressure situations. Able to present facts clearly and simply
• Attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications, Certifications and Experience

• Recent experience of relevant construction projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for a highly collaborative working environment.
• Continuously innovate to drive value and efficiency
• Promote transparency and integration
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Accuracy and attention to detail are critical.
• Ability to perform in a high volume, priority changing environment.
• Ability to use own initiative

Dragados Values

• Excellence: Promoting innovation, development, training and continuous improvement to achieve the highest quality of project delivery.
• Integrity: Acting ethically and transparently. Demanding the best standards of integrity from its employees, suppliers and other stakeholders.
• Trust: Nurturing positive relationships at all levels of the organisation, with our clients and supply chain by developing strong and long term relationships based on mutual trust.
• Sustainability: Commitment to sustainable development to make an efficient and ethically responsible contribution to society and the environment.
• Profitability: Ensuring our profitability as well as contributing value to the communities in which we operate as part of our sustainability agenda.

Dragados is committed to act based on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles.

Equal opportunities, non-discrimination and respect for human rights are basic principles contained in the Dragados Code of Conduct that apply to all Dragados employees.