Senior Cost Engineer

Overview

As Cost Engineer at SYSTRA in Birmingham, you sẽ help manage project costs across rail and infrastructure initiatives, supporting high-speed rail design and broader product lines. You will apply cost management and earned value techniques, ensuring accurate reporting and financial positioning through SPOT, with clear communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders. You’ll partner with engineering, commercial and project delivery teams to drive value, efficiency and transparency on large-scale projects. This role offers a hands-on opportunity to shape cost control practices within a high-performance engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Apply cost management and earned value techniques
• Analyse weekly actual cost reporting for accuracy and provide feedback to the DJV Project Team
• Produce timely actual and forecast cost reporting and manage month-end accruals
• Control and analyse scope deviations via trend and change management
• Build relationships with budget holders to ensure correct cost capture
• Support inter-company trading transactions for global production centres and regional performance
• Attend progress meetings and communicate data to project teams across regions
• Record meeting minutes and actions from Work Package Reviews

Key requirements

• Experience in cost engineering, project controls, or commercial management within rail/transport/infrastructure
• Strong knowledge of project cost management processes and earned value principles
• Proficiency in cost management software and Microsoft Excel; experience with Primavera P6, IFS, or similar ERP/project tools is an advantage
• Excellent communication skills for presenting financial information to diverse stakeholders
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical and numerical abilities
• Proactive and solution-focused with constructive challenge of cost assumptions
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, commercial, and project delivery teams
• Commitment to delivering value, efficiency, and transparency in large-scale infrastructure projects

• communication
• collaboration
• analytical thinking
• cost management software
• Microsoft Excel
• Primavera P6

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