Cost Engineer

Job Description

Cost Engineer

📍 Location: Newcastle

As Assystem’s Defence Infrastructure account continues to grow, we’re looking for a driven and proactive Cost Engineer to help keep our projects on track and on budget. You’ll play a key role in planning, forecasting, and reporting within a highly regulated environment.

Based in our Newcastle office, this role also benefits from our flexible “new normal” approach supporting a blend of home and office working.

Your missions:

📊 Implement cost control processes on work packages
📈 Prepare project budgets, cost forecasts, and cash flow projections across multiple work packages
🔍 Monitor actual costs against approved baselines, identifying trends, variances, and potential risks to cost performance
📑 Deliver accurate, timely, and transparent cost reports
⚙️ Support change control processes, including evaluation of cost impacts associated with design changes, regulatory requirements, and scope evolution
🤝 Collaborate closely with planning, engineering, procurement, and commercial teams to ensure alignment between cost, schedule, and technical scope
🧾 Create applications for payment and invoices

Why join the community of Switchers?

As one of the Top 3 Nuclear Engineering companies in the world, Assystem offer a competitive benefits package which includes:

🌴 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
💷 8% company pension contributions
🦷 Healthcare cash-plan to get money back on dental, medical, physical care
🧠 Employee assistance programme including 24/7 access to free mental health support, virtual gym classes and more
🎓 Get professional and industry membership fees paid for

Qualifications

Key Skills & Experience:

📌 Demonstrable experience in cost engineering or project controls
📊 Strong understanding of cost management techniques, including budgeting and forecasting
🏗️ Experience working within regulated environments with strict change control and quality assurance processes
💻 Proficiency in cost management systems and tools (e.g., Excel, SAP, Primavera P6, or equivalent)
🔎 Strong analytical capability with high attention to detail and data accuracy
🗣️ Ability to communicate complex cost information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Additional Information

Additional information:

Please be aware that many roles at Assystem are subject to both security and export control restrictions.

• These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.
• All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

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