Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36, people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
We are looking to recruit a career minded Senior level Cost Consultant (Quantity Surveyor) to support our dynamic Cost and Commercial team in Dublin. With a focus on supporting our Global Tech clients you will working as part of an established team on fast paced data centre accounts, you will continue to build significant data centre experience and will be able to face challenging client aspirations and deliver exceptional client outcomes.
Role accountabilities:
1. work well alone within established financial systems to monitor and review project costs and variances to control cost variables
2. Deliver/assist with significant components of cost management assignments, ensuring the delivery of the required scope of work within set deadlines
3. Understand and comply with business risk and present any project concerns or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted
4. Provide advice to colleagues on fundamentals of risk management, to ensure adherence to the organisations risk and compliance processes
5. Examine and review a range of data to collate trends and prepare documentation such as delivery plans, providing advice and making recommendations to support cost and commercial management decision-making
6. Use own knowledge and experience to review and analyse existing cost and commercial management processes and policies, sharing knowledge and taking an active involvement in service improvement and innovation
7. Interact with internal and external customers, applying technical knowledge to complete complex, professional level tasks in order to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet customer expectations
8. Provide specialist technical advice and guidance within area, supporting others with cost management queries and activity
Qualifications & Experience:
9. Preferably data centre experience
10. Experience in delivering analysis and insights
11. Technical knowledge of specialised field, including construction processes and cost and commercial management
12. Demonstration of self-management and prioritisation skills with the ability to work under pressure
13. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to influence stakeholders and third parties
14. Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion
15. A keen interest in and ability to recognise, react to and talk with authority on megatrends such as digitisation and sustainability
16. BSc (Hons) or equivalent
17. Relevant professional qualification (e.g. RICS / SCSI) desirable