Senior Cost Manager - Highways​/Infrastructure

Senior Cost Manager
- Highways/Infrastructure

Department: Cost Management

Employment Type: Permanent
- Full Time

Location: Bedfordshire

Reporting To: Adam Hope

Title: Senior Cost Manager

Sector: Highways & Infrastructure

Seniority: Senior Cost Manager

Discipline: Cost Management
Location: The project site is in Bedford
; there will be at least three days per week required on-site, with hybrid working.

Project: Confidential Major Project subject to signed NDA

Why RLB?

At RLB, we live by four simple ideas:
Truth, Trust, Together, Tomorrow. Four values that live at the heart of RLB. A place where People Make Progress.

We value your skills, talents and unique perspectives – we think they are priceless.

Bring them to RLB and you’ll be empowered to shape our future and your career in new and meaningful ways.

We’ll give you opportunities to work on some of the most ambitious and exciting projects currently being designed and developed in the built environment sector.

You’ll continue to learn and advance as everyone who works for us is provided with a tailored training programme. Our mentoring and reverse mentoring schemes will enable you to share your expertise while gaining fresh insights.

What makes RLB unique is our inclusive culture. As an independent, employee-owned business, teamwork and collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies are just some of the ways we invest in employee wellbeing.

Join us and you will thrive personally as well as professionally.

RLB is acting as a strategic delivery partner for a major UK development programme. The commission includes programme-wide PMO, governance, reporting, project controls, risk and change management, digital tools, and the integrated delivery of individual packages including project management, cost management, procurement, design management, health and safety advisory and contract administration.

We are seeking and experienced client-side roads, highways and infrastructure cost management professional, at Senior Cost Manager / Senior Quantity Surveyor level, to support cost planning, estimating, procurement, commercial management, NEC contract administration and handover of a critical Roads & Bridges package.

The Roads & Bridges package is a core enabling package for the wider programme and will set important early commercial benchmarks for cost certainty, procurement discipline, risk management, collaboration, stakeholder engagement and delivery culture.

1. Client-Side Commercial Leadership & Cost Management

• Lead, or support the leadership of, client-side commercial management for the Roads & Bridges package from design, estimating and procurement through construction, handover and close-out.
• Maintain ownership of defined cost, procurement, contract, change, risk, forecasting and reporting outcomes, proportionate to role level.
• Coordinate commercial inputs across client, consultant, contractor, statutory authority and internal RLB teams.
• Establish clear commercial priorities, decision routes and governance rhythms to support timely client decisions and effective cost control.

2. Highways, Bridges & Infrastructure Cost Assurance

• Provide commercial and cost management input for highways, roads, bridges, earthworks, drainage, utilities interfaces and associated infrastructure works.
• Apply knowledge of relevant UK infrastructure standards, including DMRB and local authority highway requirements.
• Support cost assurance, design reviews, constructability reviews, estimating, procurement readiness and commercial delivery readiness assessments.
• Ensure design, procurement and delivery solutions are commercially robust, buildable, cost-effective and…