Project Cost Consultant - Local Government

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 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 world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are looking to recruit an experienced Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant to join our growing Local Government team in the South West. 

In Local Government we are working on some of the most exciting and challenging issues affecting our society today, ranging from the re-invention of town centres and regeneration of deprived areas through to designing solutions in response to Net Zero Carbon commitments. Our sector is thriving, and we have ambitious plans to grow.

Increasingly we are working in long-term strategic partnerships with our clients, enabling our people to foster exceptional client relationships where we deliver the very best value.

Role accountabilities:

• You will be a key member of the project delivery team, achieving objectives, delivering to performance targets and ensuring that the cost team have the necessary skills to deliver the project objectives


• Analyse and review complex information from a range of data sources including  in order to identify how different options may impact project delivery and advise clients and internal stakeholders on potential implications


• Managing our relationship with the client to ensure satisfaction, meeting client objectives and helping to manage pipeline and deliver client growth.


• Assuring compliance with contracts in terms of programme delivery parameters and scope of service


• Work independently within established financial systems to monitor and review project costs and variances on small commercial/regeneration/residential projects, in order to control cost variables


• Deliver and manage projects or significant components of cost management assignments, ensuring the delivery of the required scope of work within set deadlines

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent


• Working towards professional qualification or chartered status


• Knowledge and experience in a variety of building types and ideally some experience of working on Government or public sector projects 


• Ability to run projects with limited supervision, working effectively with other disciplines where we are offering multi-disciplinary solutions.

Why Arcadis? 

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. 

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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