Senior Cost Consultant

You will act as a sparring partner for all parties involved with the design process and challenge them. You will actively make proposals and manage the design within budget, planning and risk profile. This way you create the maximum results within the available budget.

What you do as a Senior Cost Consultant

You will make it possible for our clients to optimally convert their ambition into a new facility. Of course, within the available budget and time. You’ll work independently or together with fellow cost experts on multiple, often large and complex, projects. In addition, you actively contribute to developments in the field of cost databases, Total Cost of Ownership and 5D BIM with a direct (parametric) link between design, finance and planning. Products you’ll deliver are:

• Budget provisions: investment costs, construction costs and operating costs.
• Design control based on budget, planning and risk.
• Investment cost, construction cost and operating cost estimates during design phases.
• Tender advice and second opinions.

As a Senior Cost Consultant you will bring experience and expertise to set-up cost estimation and monitoring processes to allow for data driven benchmarking (possibly in collaboration with external parties), international applicability and client compatibility. Your experience with industrial manufacturing projects further strengthens our team.

Where you will work

Royal HaskoningDHV is a worldwide independent engineering, project management and consultancy firm which integrates 140 years of engineering expertise with digital technologies and software solutions. Our 6,000 colleagues are working from offices in more than 25 countries across the world. Through our mission Enhancing Society Together, we take responsibility for having a positive impact on the world. As our new Senior Cost Consultant you will become part of the team Project Management & Consultancy Multinationals.

Within our field of work, a correct financial translation of ambition into construction, investment and operating costs is crucial. Decisions are made based on this translation: whether to realize it, new construction or renovation, and with what level of quality. During the design and realization phase, this provides the opportunity to achieve the optimal result based on cost control and monitoring.

As a Senior Cost Consultant, you will join an ambitious team. A group that consists of colleagues who like it when you proactively contribute your knowledge and experience and help develop the team with initiatives. The team is also characterized as an enthusiastic group that likes to exchange ideas with each other in order to get the most out of the project frameworks.

What you bring

With your insight into all disciplines (architecture, constructions, installations and building physics) you will achieve the best results in our projects. In addition, you will also have:

• Higher Vocational Education or university working and thinking level;
• Work experience in both the contracting and consultancy industry;
• Experience with budget and cost determination of international projects;
• Analytical thinking ability, strong communication and empathic skills;
• Work experience with industrial manufacturing sites.

What we offer you

Within our company you will be able to develop yourself while working on challenging projects, both in the Netherland and worldwide. Besides that, we also offer you:

• A good work-life balance, including a laptop and company cell phone so you can work wherever and whenever you want;
• 28 holidays based on a 40-hour work week;
• A good primary salary and pension accrual through our own pension fund;
• A workplace in our office in Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Nijmegen, or Rotterdam and travel allowance or a NS-Business Card;
• Lifelong learning by offering you plenty of training & development opportunities;
• Personal budget which you can use to buy extra days off, to buy a bicycle or just to have some additional salary;
• Bonuses based on company profit.

Furthermore, your field of work is throughout the Netherlands and your location can be determined in consultation. You will be deployed almost immediately on projects, of course with good guidance from colleagues and supervisor.