Cost Control Engineer

6 months

Inside IR35

Overview of role:

Analyses contractors’ bids for single-source Contracts with MoD.

Supervises less complex, lower-value single source pricing investigations. Produces written reports documenting conclusions of cost engineering investigations.

Typical main responsibilities:

 Produce reports that summarise cost engineering investigations and provide analysis to support contract negotiation.

 Review Contractors’ proposals and assesses them against the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO) Guidance for Single Source Contracting.

 Analyse bid data, identifying deficiencies in the information provided and finding solutions.

 Lead and/or participate in meetings with the Contractor, the customer and DE&S stakeholders to improve the quality of the evidence supplied to support bidders’ costs.

 Provide analysis to support negotiations.

 Support junior colleagues by coaching them where needed to ensure quality outputs.

 To communicate key project cost engineering data to key member of the project, programme and DE&S leadership. To communicate and influence team member and leadership within DE&S Project and Supply chain within the Cost Engineering technical field

Typical qualifications and registrations:

Willingness to work towards ‘Enrolled’ accreditation by the Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE). Knowledge and /or experience such as would be acquired through education to A Level, or equivalent qualification, such as ONC or BTEC (Level 3).

The role is expected to have some experience of project environment but typically the role would develop most required knowledge through post-joining role-specific training. Basic to intermediate level knowledge of analysis tools, such as Excel.