Cost and Estimating Lead

Job Description

Our clientNWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.We are proud to serve our customers and were committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.The Assets Directorate understand the health of our assets, invest wisely and maintain them to continue to provide safe, reliable and resilient services to our customers today and in the future.We have launched an ambitious transformation programme to drive a real step change in how we deliver our capital projects. This requires the development of a high-performing PMO to provide a central controls function delivering impactful performance reporting,estimating, schedule and risk management, and governance. The overarching objective of the transformation programme is to transition from a hybrid PMO consisting of NWL staff and contractor support, to an entirely inhouse model.The opportunityWe’ve an amazing new opportunity to become our new Cost and Estimating Lead, reporting into the Integrated Controls Manager within our Asset Programme Management Office (PMO). We see this role is essential to realising our National Leader ambitions and we’relooking for a motivated governance and change professional, with direct experience of working in a fast-paced Programme Office (PMO) environment.You’ll act as the cost and estimating lead within the Northumbrian Water PMO and will lead a team of project cost management professionals in delivery of best practice project and programme cost planning, estimating and control.We’re looking for you to implement and oversee the cost team ethos and the drive to achieve objectives, along with the review and assurance of estimates prepared by the cost team estimators for AMPS project and contracts at key project lifecycles stages andproviso of ad-hoc estimates. We’re looking for you to also oversee preparation of estimates, capture of outturn costs and the upload into the cost estimating platform, IMOD.You’ll be delivering on the provision of NEC3 Framework and Contract costing support in line with stakeholder requirements, along with guidance on project CBS preparation and its integration with the WBS, in collaboration with project teams and scheduling andrisk leads. You’ll also be reviewing our contractors’ estimates for completeness and reasonable basis that supports the project scope and deliverables.We’re looking for you to be the PMO & Capital Delivery cost and estimating authority, attend and contribute to meetings and management forums on behalf of the PMO, along with owning the cost preparation controls model and associated guidelines for meeting forums,purpose, attendees, and materials, ensuring consistency of approach across the delivery programme.About youWe’re looking for you to have proven experience of developing and delivering the provision of high-quality cost and in-depth estimating support in a project controls or programme management environment, along with the successful development and deployment ofproject baseline cost structure build up, cost estimation, budgeting and cashflow management. You’ll also have demonstrable knowledge of contract and procurement management standards including NEC 3 forms of contract.You’ll have a proven track record of accurate project cost monitoring, analysis, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with targets. You’ll also have experience of motivating high-performing colleagues or teams to a successful end, recognising theimportance of training, development, safety, and well-being, along with having a close and effective collaboration with fellow PMO integrated function leads and supporting the Head of PMO.We’re looking for you to have experience of using dedicated cost estimating, management systems and reporting tools and software, such as MS PowerBI, along with experience of performance dashboard development and information management to support senior leveldecision making.